Scott Blair and I began the day near Goodland, KS with a storm that developed just south of the city, near Sharon Springs, KS. This storm displayed decent structure initially with hard updraft tower and well defined wall cloud. We followed the storm north of  Goodland before the updraft shrank and the storm weakened.  We stayed out expecting new development to eventually take shape across this area. We met up with Pam Murray and two new updrafts developed near Bird City, KS. We followed them up Hwy. 161 observing the lead updraft steadily shrink. However, in the process a well defined funnel developed and persisted for about 7 minutes. We followed the convection north to Binkelman and then Enders, NE, which eventually developed into  a line as the dry line initiated additional convection. After preliminarily calling it a day, I gassed up in Imperial and headed east on Hwy. 6 to McCook. Along the way, I observed quarter sized hail near Culbertson, NE. I took Hwy 83 south out of McCook, NE toward Oberlin, KS. As I approached Oberlin, a fairly new updraft along the dryline showed some signs of mid level rotation. I stopped to observe a well-defined occlusion as the RFD wrapped around. I eventually continued south to I70 and headed home observing a brilliant sunset along the way and some nighttime lightning.