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Last Updated on Monday, 04 January 2010 22:39 Written by Roger Hill

2006

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June 11 was the first day of tour 6. We debated on whether to stay in Colorado or head north. Surface flow and moisture was a bit better north into southwest Nebraska. And after a call from Dave Gold, north we headed. We arrived on the scene near the Scottsbluff National Monument to see a beautifully striated rotating supercell sucking dirt off the top of the monument. This storm did all it could to produce a tornado, even with a strongly rotating lowering on the northeast side of the storm. But it never could quite focus long enough to produce. However the structure was incredible!!! (Sorry for the change in contrast and tones below. Some of  these are digital stills and some are video stills)

This is the view that greeted us. Looking northwest.                 Lightning was intense and a sight to behold!

Dirt being sucked into the updraft base.                                      A nice lowering developed. I thought it would produce.

Caryn caught this cg with her digital camera.                             What beautiful HP supercell structure!