Sunday 29th May 2022 - Nebraska (Enhanced Risk)

Started today in North Platte and had an Enhanced Risk in the Central and North Eastern Parts of Nebraska. SPC upgraded the Tornado Risk to 10% but as this was the last tour day we had to be in a sensible distance to Denver to return everyone for their flights home. As it turned out the risk was actually closer to Denver than we first thought which was nice. The HRRR was not actually that far off in the end See Below the predictionWe went North East to Burwell for Lunch and I noticed their was a huge Cirrus Canopy to our East and North East and this can act as a cap for storms forming, things were rapidly changing and this was becoming a watching surface obs and boundaries type of day which I love chasing. SPC kept with their 10% in NE Nebraska on the 20z Update but I knew this was almost certain to bust and our attention was now drawn to quite a unique set up that I had not really chased before, namely the post frontal moisture rich set-up. A surface Low had stalled on the KS/NE Border and was drawing in moisture from backed winds from the east over a concentrated area around Broken Bow. We quickly double backed from where we came and watched the cumulus field explode in front of our eyes around 730pm.We were literally the first chasers on this Supercell which was anchoring on an Outflow Boundary, things would have quickly here.We watched the storm explode into life with a low hanging wall cloud to our North West.The Storm then raced off North East and moved away from the boundary and became a little bit more elevated in nature with large hail being reported. In fact some 5-6" Inch Hail was now being reported in to the NWS with picture proof. Was gutted at this point that we did not call off the chase to pick up some of the hailstones as the Storm rapidly weakened after that, we headed back east after that to stay at Ogallalla and were then treated to another 2 hours of constant storms moving North out of NE Colorado to end Tour 2s trip.