Chase Log: May 11, 2005

Southwest NE/Northwest KS

CHASE VEHICLE: Storm Tracer
CHASE PARTNERS: Multiple
MILES DRIVEN: 598 miles
STATES CHASED:
LOG STATUS: Full Write-Up

TORNADOES SEEN: None
LARGEST HAIL SEEN: None
FLOODING SEEN: None Observed
LIGHTNING IMAGERY: Not Captured
STORM DAMAGE: Observed

TONY LAUBACH Meteorologist & Storm Chaser

537,578 Miles Driven

474 Tornadoes Seen

SPC OUTLOOK: Moderate

Tornado Prob: 15% Sig

Wind Prob: 30%

Hail Prob: 45% Sig

Kicked off the morning in Colby with many other chasers. Took our time in the morning getting ready to head out from one of my favorite places in Tornado Alley.

Amos Checking Data in the Morning From Colby, Kansas

Verne Checking Data Over Amos’s Shoulder in Colby, Kansas

We eventually poked north after most of us digested fried chicken from the Truck Stop and most of us ended up in extreme southwest Nebraska on storms that tried (not very hard) to get going.

A scenic shot of The Storm Tracer with an abandoned building and wind mill; this was the most photogenic scene of the day.

Oh yeah, we did chase a storm; here’s the grungy monster in Southern Nebraska.

Oops! Fortunately all we got from this Nebraska Trooper was a verbal warning.

We looped back into Colby, getting in just after 10pm ahead of some storms that stayed just south of Colby, but the winds were pretty wicked through the evening.