[Still catching up. I’ll organize this soon!]
0730 – wake; REMOVE BEDBUG (ow!); shower; dress; pack. Transfer photos from iPhone and Nikon D7000 to laptop (and external hard drive).
0830 – Exchange texts with Kristy, “brekkie!” The breakfast room is packed. An OJ, waffle, and 20 minutes later, no Kristy. Late sleeper! 🙂
0930 – briefing and. TARGET: someplace where NE WY SD meet
1000 – dpt motel; fuel up next door (a second chance for me to return my room key card. We head N on I-25 at 1010. Trying to catch up my blog while we drive north. Spotty cellular internet coverage is a moderate handicap.
1215-1235 – lunch stop at Subway #13956, Douglas, WY
1415-1436 – photo stop at old house while we wait on storms; then we head west toward Lusk, WY.
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1521 – watching a storm moving SE toward us.
1600 – rtn S to Lusk. Refuel.
1628 – deciding between 2 storms
1657 – re-enter NE on US20 Ebound from Lusk; another cell trailing that is building. The start of an overshooting top is suggested from what we see.
1703 – S at Harrison, NE
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1928MDT – charging S toward Alliance, NE. We can see the storm has a healthy updraft (visually and on radar) from 90 miles away. Multiple reports of a landspout tornado and rotating wall clouds follow the storm.
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EOD – _____
| Start | Cheyenne, WY |
| Finish | _ |
| Route | I-25, US18E, WY state highway network |
| Miles | ___ |
| Start | Cheyenne, WY |
| Finish | Bridgeport, NE |
| Route | I-25, NE/SD backroads |
| Miles | ??? |
