Severe Thunderstorm - Beatrice Nebraska - March 30, 2006


Severe thunderstorm southwest of Beatrice, NE - March 30, 2006

This was the first severe thunderstorm warned cell I was on this year!  Impressive huh?  Well it's a start to the year.  I left work early and headed south targeting an area south of the Nebraska/Kansas border south of Beatrice, NE.  I didn't make it far when I came upon this cell developing to the southwest of Beatrice around 12:30pm.  I was trying to decide if I should give this cell some development time.  Thinking that today might be pretty challenging, I didn't want to give up on it so quickly, plus it was moving towards the Lincoln area in Lancaster county.  I could see the updraft...the first of the year for me and it had somewhat of an interesting lowering out of the base that had some scud action.  It soon lost my interest and I was monitoring radar checking out the cells in Kansas that at first looked decent discrete cells but they soon quickly went linear and I decided to cut my losses and head back to work to save the vacation time for another chase day...until then...

Developing lowering from the base of this severe thunderstorm.  12:39pm


Looking west from Hwy 77 north of Beatrice, NE.

Looking west from Hwy 77 north of Beatrice, NE.

Looking west from Hwy 77 north of Beatrice, NE.

Looking west from Hwy 77 north of Beatrice, NE.


Looking east at developing convection from Hwy 77 north of Beatrice, NE.


Looking east at developing convection from Hwy 77 north of Beatrice, NE.


Looking northeast towards a nice hail shaft in the distance