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Written by Heidi Farrar   
Thursday, 16 July 2009 10:29
Wesley Luginbyhl, Curtis McDonald and Daniel Betten were among the handful of storm chasers who were able to document a tornado from the incredible supercell in Cherry Co, Nebraska on Monday! The storm raged over south-central South Dakota and the north-central Nebraska sandhills for most of Monday evening, with powerful inflow winds and damaging hail causing extremely treacherous conditions; on radar it exhibited very impressive characteristics as well -- at one point a velocity couplet was registering over 130 knts of gate-to-gate shear! Luckily the storm was over mostly rural areas the entire time, so damage was isolated.
The active severe weather pattern continues today across a large part of the south-central US and in the mid-Atlantic states into southern New England. Again, practically all modes of severe weather will be possible! An area of convection in southern Nebraska and northern Kansas is currently progressing generally southeast and may develop into a more threatening MCS over MO and KS. More storms are likely later today in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas. In the northeast, storms are already beginning to fire and will continue to increase in coverage as the afternoon progresses, bringing the risk for damaging winds and large hail with a limited tornado threat.
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0 #1 Caleb 2009-07-16 06:50
I'm surprised that the tornado was'nt bigger than it was in the video!
 
 
+1 #2 WesleyL 2009-07-16 10:18
The North Platte, NE WFO did a survey of the tornado ad rated it an EF-2. The survey can be found over on their page along with a couple of my photos. It hit an old trailer home and barn that were on a ranch out there.
 
 
0 #3 JC Surfs 2009-07-16 12:37
That cell had INSANE structure. I came out on the US 85 to Lead SD..went east on the 90.. Stayed on it for a while.. then aborted to go north... Went to Buffalo SD to see if what the models showed was going to produce... Saw the cell explode off the Mont/Wyo/SD vicinity.. Major rotation.. over 90 mph straight line winds and a pretty good size funnel moving east...Continued to Newell.. The damage there was really significant.. Large trees on structures.. just a mess.. Incredible damage that looked like a tornado hit, but was all the straight line wind damage..

Would have expected a bit more from this on the northern part of SD but an all around great chase. Glad to see someone got a TD out of this chase day.. Good Job finding the TD... Finally... It was a really long day... Cheers
 
 
+1 #4 James1 2009-07-16 15:50
that is an amazing looking supercell. Extremely violent rotation. Well there is a huge MCS in OK right now with winds reported up to 75 MPH. It also looks like tomorrow is gonna be absolutely volatile
 

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