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with Kevin Myatt

Another small chase; big chase days loom

Posted May20, 2007 at 12:50 AM

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We did catch up to some storms today that fired in north-central Nebraska, actually farther southeast than the official forecasts indicated they would. We sniffed out the location of a cold front from the wind changes we noted approaching the Nebraska-South Dakota border. We watched as the cumulus clouds grew into cumulonimbus clouds (such as the one linked here, with one of the chase vans and its occupants in the foreground) and eventually produced marginally severe storms. We even encountered marble-sized hail for a bit, slowly backing off each time to make sure something bigger wasn't looming.

We're in Chamberlain, South Dakota, tonight facing a confusing, but potentially very active, severe weather forecast the next few days. Sunday may yet produce a chase day in the Dakotas, and the Monday-Thursday time frame may produce several opportunities. For the first time during this trip, tornadoes become a serious possibility on Sunday, and that potential only grows as the week goes along.

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Kevin Myatt works on the copy desk for The Roanoke Times and is its principal weather geek, writing a weekly weather column and advising the newsroom on weather topics. He helps guide students on a storm chasing trip to the central U.S. each May and was an editor for "Hurricanes and the Middle Atlantic States."

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