June 7th took us to North Dakota to chase a dryline/outflow boundary. Several storms formed and started spinning. Eventually they congealed into a large bowing MCS with hurricane force winds and cool shelf cloud structure. We encountered down power lines, trees and demolished structures. Even our hotel in Dickinson was without power forcing us to move to a part of town that actually had power. A crazy day, and the winds we encountered with the shelf cloud structure was quite cool. Many reports of winds over 90 mph!
June 3, 2026 Plankinton, South Dakota Tornado Warned Supercell
June 3rd didn’t quite live up to it’s potential. A tornado watch was issued mid afternoon and a few supercells formed. They just didn’t have the look. Lower level winds we not optimal, but still sufficient to get them to spin. We caught one storm near Miller, SD and stayed with it a couple hours as it was tornado warned. It eventually moved into a hostile environment and we let it go. Blasting back towards the I-90 area near Plankinton at sunset we encountered a gorgeous shelf cloud with a couple embedded supercell structures. It was just a gorgeous sight!! The line produced winds over 80 mph and hail golfball sized. A nice way to end the day!
June 1, 2026 Last Chance, CO Tornado Warned Supercell
June 1st took us just east of our house in Colorado. A supercell formed near Denver and slowed moved, developed east and eventually became tornado warned near Bennett. Hail to baseball size occurred. A couple other supercells formed further east along a boundary just north of Last Chance and also became tornado warned. Due to the high based nature of the storms, there wasn’t a great threat of a tornado occurring. However, the structure was pretty and the lightning quite nice. They also produced hail to tennisball size and the moved east towards Akron, CO. Fun day, pretty storms!!!
