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Last Updated on Monday, 04 January 2010 18:32 Written by Roger Hill

2008

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I didn't have a lot of hope for this day. Limited moisture and CAPE, along with respectable shear, I thought would result in high based storms,  producing marginal hail. I did not expect a tornado warned higher based supercell to form and become one of the prettiest storms of the young season thus far. We started with trashy storms near Scottsbluff and watched as this storm developed amidst the piles of crappy cumulus towers associated with those storms. We finally let it pummel s with golfball sized hail near Chappell, NE. Click on a thumbnail image for a larger one. Enjoy!

Storm during its developing phase northwest of Bridgport, NE.	Supercell forms out of this multicell storms.
Wall cloud forms and rotates, and a tornado warning is issued.	Rotating wall cloud as tornado warning still in effect, and would be for the entire life cycle of the storm.
I love playing with HDR images, as these next 5 are.	Beautiful high based supercell.
Another pretty HDR structure shot.	My favorite.
Storm weakens, though still tornado warned. Updraft is majorly tilted over.	Nice flared base.
Pretty structure with this now lp storm.	One last gasp for life in southwest Nebraska as the storm finally dies, nearly 5 hours later.