To the left of the core you can see the nodule spinning. The colours and contrast with this storm were really cool!
I wish I had more time to stick around and watch it but knew I had to reposition.
Jen snapped this photo outside of her window as we blasted south towards the new storm.
It looked good on radar but it looked even more awesome in person! You can see dust being kicked up by the RFD under the back of the rain free base.
This is what you call a sculpted supercell! At this point, the tornado potential is very low since the moisture needed to get the storm to build towards the ground is not there.
Sometimes these low precipitation storms do produce weak little cone tornadoes but this one did not seem like it was going to do that.
In these cases though, these LP storms are so beautiful they don't have to produce a tornado to satisfy most any chaser, the structure alone is breathtaking.
Jen snapped this photo as we kept moving south. There were some reports of fairly large hail and I wanted to get to the southeast side of the storm asap.
I'm not a fan of hail damage, it requires repairs and costs unnecessary time.
Here's the radar at the time, these LP storms don't show up very well because there is so little moisture to bounce the radio waves back to the radar site.
The storm with this train crossing made for a cool photo! Sometimes you just can't resist!
A lone white farmhouse stands in the presence of an eerily sculpted low precipitation supercell.
This is one of my all time favorite photos!
This was just outside of Sidney, NE. The light and contrast were perfect, if not just wonderful!
This was the storm as it was about to cross U.S Highway 385
The storm, which was now just outside of Chappel, NE was sure looking awesome! It was finally digging into better moisture that was making it's way in from the east.
You can see how the structure is becoming broader and more defined, maybe even beefy looking if you can say that. It's a sure sign of good moisture.
You'll also notice there is more inflow at various levels aloft which was not as strongly present earlier.
If you remember the analysis from earlier, you'll note the bulk of the moisture was 850mb driven and you can clearly see the 850mb / 1.5km level feeding in buckets of moisture here as well as the 700mb / 3km level.
