June 4, 2008 Maywood, NE
Katie Burtis and I departed GLD originally targeting Russell where we met up with Scott Blair and Amos Magliocco. However we soon realized the cap presented a potential bust so we quickly readjusted to SW Nebraska for the ongoing convection. We observed three supercell across this area, intercepting the first storm near Elwood, NE. However, it quickly became outflow dominant and we abandoned this storm. We opted to head westward to intercept the persistent activity heading out of NE CO into SW NE. Struggling with poor dirt road conditions, we waited for the storm near Hayes Center, NE to approach our location along Hwy 83 south of Maywood, NE. We observed great mid level structure with this storm as well as verifying 2.50″ hail in the vault region. In addition, as the storm moved east of our location, we had the opportunity to witness the alignment of the 3 left split updrafts. We observed a final supercell in the vicinity of the previous storm along Hwy 83 just after twilight. We verified 3″ diameter hail with this storm as it crossed an abandoned Hwy 83 as well as impressive structure.

