May 17th Lincoln and Custer Counties Nebraska

Initiation west of North Platte, NE as we fuel up and check road options.

Chase partner Joel Lampe puts on the game face.

Tower explodes into a full-blown classic dryline supercell.

Looking for a little Husker luck today.

Action area showing rotation and lots of rising motion west of North Platte, NE.

Miah Johnson, Joel Lampe, and Theresa Caspers wait for the cell.

Is this a sign of our Husker luck?  Must have been the helmet.  Note the metars.

Close up of the action area.

The dirt plume just to the left of the cows was recorded as an F0 tornado...go figure.

Trying hard to form a funnel.  Incredible inflow winds 30-35 mph sustained!

Never did produce.  Notice how the LCL's have gone up since the first few shots.

RFD kicking in south of the alleged "tornado".  Still west of North Platte, NE.

Sup elevates as it moves to the north east of North Platte.

Cells merge to form a squall line

Rain/dirt foot north of North Platte.

Beautiful view over the Nerbraska landscape.

Cold outflow pushing out a huge piece of scud.

Cell is going totally outflow as shelf starts to form.

The first of many dry downbursts we will see.

Cell contimues to stretch out in a north/south fashion.

Outflow kicking up the dirt as we head south in Custer county.

Nebraska topsoil heading for Iowa!

Heading east for the night.

Shelf overhead back near I-80.

Lightning over our hotel in York, NE as we prepare for tomorrow.

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