Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Storms on the plains tonight




Strong storms are rocking western and central Nebraska tonight. Strong instability and an abundant moisture field is firing off these severe storms. With dew points still in the 60's and surface convergence boundary line, this provides for a great mechanism to fire off these storms. Strong southerly low level jet and a decent area of CAPE will keep these storms going into the night.

North Platte is getting hammered by these storms. Rotation is noted on the storm south of North Platte with a low level change in velocity of 40 knots, fairly strong!

1 comment:

Dann Cianca said...

At this moment, we were just off of 387, south of Julesburg, trying to take lightning photos.

Dann.