News Stories:
Suspected tornado damages buildings in Aurora (KMEG-TV)
Storm damage heavy in Aurora, Kearney (Grand Island Independent)
Section of I-80 closed, crews assess Kearney damage (KHAS-TV)
Severe storm derails train, slams homes in Nebraska (CNN)
8:50 PM CDT
Tornado Warnings continue for embedded rotation in a line northwest of Des Moines, IA. Another Tornado Warning for Republic County, KS. Well-defined "hook" on radar.
8:50 PM CDT
Tornado Warning remains in effect until 9:30 PM CDT for Mitchell and Jewell counties in Kansas.
Watch KSN-TV Live (Wichita, KS)
8:30 PM CDT
A Tornado Warning Remains in effect until 8:45 PM CDT for Mitchell and Eastern Osborne counties in KS. At 8:24 PM CDT trained weather spotters reported a large tornado on the gound near Densmore moving East at 37 MPH.
8:15 PM CDT
The NWS SPC has isssued
Tornado Watch #389 from 8:15 PM CDT until 3:00 AM CDT
for Central and South Iowa, Far Northeast Kansas, Northwest and Northcentral Missouri.
7:55 PM CDT
Tornado Warnings Continue to be in effect for many parts of Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa. SevereStudios still has chase cams up and streaming. Check them out at the Live ChasCam Network....
7:10 PM CDT
SevereStudios Chaser Kory Hartman has reported a large, Multi-vortex tornado with his cell in South Dakota. The camera is down as cell coverage is very poor in that portion of South Dakota.
7:05 PM CDT
Kearney, NE has taken a hit from the tornado earlier. Here is the News Story from KLKN TV.
6:15 PM CDT
Dennis Sherrod is west of Stockton, KS and has a wonderful backside view of the Supercell near that area.
5:58 PM CDT
Tornado Warning issued for Bon Homme County in South Dakota. Kory Hartman and Kevin Haney are heading for this cell!
5:58 PM CDT
A new Mesoscale Discussion has been issued for Nebraska. The Tornado Watch will be needed east of the current watch.
5 current Torando Warnings out. 3 in Kansas, 2 for the large monster Supercell nearing Grand Island, NE and then
5:47 PM CDT
New Tornado Warning out for the cell Northeast of Kearney, NE. Very strong wording in the warning:
THIS IS A DANGEROUS AND DAMAGING TORNADO SITUATION FOR THE GIBBON...SHELTON...AND KEARNEY AREAS.
Still a very intense couplet on NEXRAD.
5:45 PM CDT
Buffalo County Emergency Management has requested all residents of Kearney, NE stay home tonight. Read the Statement
5:32 PM CDT
More damage reports coming in from Kearney, NE. It seems the city has taken a direct tornado hit.
A New Tornado Watch has been issued for South Dakota.
5:27 PM CDT
Multiple Tornado reports coming in. Power Flashes have been seen in Kearney, NE.
5:25 PM CDT
Chris Rice and Dennis Sherrod are on this monster of a supercell. Chris Rice has beautiful images on his cam right now of the storm as he drives to get in front of it.
5:18 PM CDT
Very Large Supercell is heading for Grand Island, NE. Kearney, NE is going to be impacted by the "Hook Echo" here shortly. Very nice couplet showing up on Radar.
5:00 PM CDT
Monster Supercell still heading Northeast in Nebraska. Tornado Warnings still out for it, and multiple streams in the area.
4:39 PM CDT
Wall Cloud on Chris Rice's Cam! VIEW HERE
4:33 PM CDT
Tornado Warnings continue. Team Remora is on the Tornado Warned cell with Live Video!
4:15 PM CDT
Tornado Warning out for Gosper and Dawson Counties in Nebraska. A MONSTER Supercell is currently forming and looking very impressive on radar. This is an extremely dangerous situation for those in Nebraska.
3:50 PM CDT
The NWS in North Platte NE has issued Torando Warning for Eastern Frontier County unitl 4:30 PM CDT. A trained Weather Spotter Has Reported a Funnel Cloud with this storm at 3:47 PM CDT.
3:26 PM CDT
The National Weather Service in North Platte NE has issued a tornado warning for Frontier county in Nebraska. At 3:16 PM CDT national weather service doppler radar continued to indicate a tornado near HWY 83 mile marker 30. It was moving east at 33 MPH.
The tornado will be near Stockville at 3:40 PM CDT, and near HWY 18 mile marker 20 at 3:55 PM CDT.
Severe Studios has chasers in the field today. Stay tuned to Severe Studios for further updates.
2:30 PM CDT
The SPC has issued a Particularly Dangerous Situation (PDS) Tornado Watch #386 for Nebraska and parts of Kansas.
...THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION...
The Watch Probabilities are as follows:
Probability of 2 or more tornadoes -- High (>95%)
Probability of 1 or more strong tornadoes -- High (70%)
2:15 PM CDT
The SPC has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch #385 for Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.
1:44 PM CDT
The NWS SPC has issued a Mesoscale Discussion concering a Tornado threat for Westcentral Nebraska and Northwest Kansas
1:35 PM CDT
The NWS SPC has issued Tornado Watch 384 from 1:35 pm CDT until 9:00 PM CDT
1:10 PM CDT
A new Mesoscale Discussion has been issued for parts of Southern CO, Southwestern KS, Eastern NM, Western OK and TX Panhanlde, concering severe weather.
12:45 PM CDT
The first Mesoscale Discussion has been issued for Wyoming and Colorado concerning Severe Weather Potential.
Meanwhile, a flock of Storm Chasers, including many SevereStreamers are arriving in Central and Eastern Nebraska. This will be a long afternoon. Stay tuned to SevereStudios for the latest on this Severe Weather Outbreak, including many chase cams coming online later on this afternoon and evening.
12:30 PM CDT
The NWS SPC is still forecasting a Severe Outbreak for today with a High Risk for parts of Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota.
There is a chance for some Strong Tornadoes. SevereStudios has a number of Chasers in the High Risk Areas. We will have several Chase Cams up later this afternoon. Stay tuned for future updates.
10:30 AM CDT
The NWS SPC has issued the latest Public Severe Weather Outlook. It includes the possible development of Strong Tornadoes this afternoon and tonight
Public Severe Weather Outlook
6:30 AM CDT
The Storm Prediction Center will be upgrading to a HIGH Risk at the next outlook for today.
SPC MESOSCALE DISCUSSION
THE COMBINATION OF A VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS AND STRONG VEERING/INCREASING WINDS WITH HEIGHT INDICATE A RISK OF STRONG TORNADOES OVER THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
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The SPC has issued a moderate risk of severe weather for much of Eastern Nebraska and extreme SE SD. A slight risk boundary encompasses much of Kansas, South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota.
SevereStudios Chasers Kenny Allen and Jay Buchholz planned to target a line from Yankton to Sioux City yesterday. That plan was reaffirmed this morning by forecasts from the Sioux Falls NWS. Severe Studios chaser Kevin Haney will be in Northwest Iowa watching for the storms and streaming live video.
THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME QUICKLY SEVERE AND PRODUCE VERY LARGE HAIL AS WELL AS TORNADOES. SOME OF THE TORNADOES THAT DEVELOP COULD ALSO BECOME LARGE AND DAMAGING. THE HIGHEST PROBABILITY FOR A TORNADIC STORM WILL BE NEAR THE LAKE ANDES...TYNDALL...YANKTON AND SIOUX CITY AREAS.
SevereStudios Chaser Kory Hartman will also be out in southeastern South Dakota and Eastern Nebraska tonight.
SevereStudios Chaser Landon Rae and KELOLAND-TV Meterologist Scot Mundt will be out in "Dorothy" in southeastern South Dakota as well.
SevereStudios will also have many other SevereStreamers in the field. Stay tuned for more information.
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