As has been the case for much of this season… conditions were far from perfect for supercells. Still – we thought there might be enough of a chance to get us to play around in northwest Missouri/southwest Iowa and southeast Nebraska. We left Topeka and drove north to Falls City, Nebraska where we spent a good part of the afternoon. When storms started forming, they formed everywhere – quickly. In short, we had a mess on our hands and it was over almost as quick as it got started. We picked out some of the more intense cores in hope that one might be able to take over and become a dominant supercell… landing on one that did for just a brief time. This was near the town of Oregon, Missouri. The storm was very much HP and obscured when we were playing it and it didn’t take long for it to become just another part of the big mess. After working our way southwest, we landed near Holton, Kansas to shoot some lightning. One of the more interesting items here was taking our pictures from the farm of Russ Riederer, a retired strength and conditioning coach who was with the Chicago Bears for 13 years. It was fun talking to him about some of the OU greats that he had coached through the years and yet another example of some of the things/people you run into while chasing.
