Hurricane Arthur

Hurricane Arthur is now a category one hurricane with winds at 80 knots, and a central pressure of 980 mb. Arthur is moving north toward North Carolina, but a trough approaching the East Coast will cause a turn to the northeast later today. The center of Arthur will most likely pass over Cape Hatteras, but all of the North Carolina coast will be affected with high winds. A station at Wrightsville Beach, NC (near Wilmington) has already reported a 52 knot wind gust. With Arthur passing over water temperatures in the lower 80s, and with weak shear, some strengthening is likely over the next 24 hours.

Stanton and Pilger NE Storm

Yesterday, we tracked the storm that hit Stanton and Pilger, NE with a strong tornado, from Pender, NE to Sioux City, IA.

There were multiple funnel clouds seen from 1 mile east of Pender on Route 94. This video is from 4:55-5:01 PM CDT on June 16, 2014:

There was good storm stucture a few miles north of Pender, NE on Route 9. This video runs from 5:10-5:12 CDT:

We saw two funnel clouds simultaneously between Pender and Emerson, NE on Route 9. The video runs from 5:13-5:17 PM CDT:

We found ourselves too close to rapid rotation while driving east on Route 35 just northeast of Emerson, NE. The video runs from 5:26-5:28 PM CDT:

There were rapidly rotating funnel clouds just southwest of Hubbard, NE on Route 35. The video runs from 5:32-5:35 PM CDT:

We saw great striations on Route 35 between Hubbard and Dakota City, NE. The video runs from 5:41-5:42 PM CDT:

We saw incredible storm structure on Route 35 between Hubbard and Dakota City, NE. The video is at 5:43 PM CDT:

The supercell had rapid rotation on Route 35 between Hubbard and Dakota City, NE. The video runs from 5:45-5:47 PM CDT:

The tilted updraft was visible from US 75/77 just north of Dakota City, NE as the storm began to weaken. This is from 5:53-5:54 PM CDT:

Hurricane Christina

Hurricane Christina rapidly intensified from category 1 with winds of 70 knots to category 4 with 130 knot winds over just a 21 hour period. This occurred from June 11th at 21Z to June 12th at 18Z.

Christina is already the second category 4 hurricane in the East Pacific this season. This is the earliest in the season that two hurricanes reached category 4 in the East Pacific since 1966 when satellite monitoring began.

Ice On Lake Superior On May 31

The last day there was ice on Lake Superior was Saturday, May 31st:

Tornado Forecast May 31 2014

After many days of uncertainty as to exactly when and where, it now appears that a substantial tornado threat will develop in southeast Nebraska on Tuesday, June 3rd:

Nebraska Tornadoes and Snow

The same storm which produced tornadoes in eastern Nebraska, also produced heavy snow in western Nebraska:

5" of snow fell at Scottsbluff (2.7 WNW), 1" fell in northwest Kansas (Kanorado), and 43" fell in Wyoming (Encampment 19 WSW).

Here is a radar review from the Hastings and Omaha Radar sites. York received 7.07" of rain from these storms and from some earlier that day.


We followed the main supercell from south of York to slightly East of Omaha. Here is some of what we saw

A huge inflow band seen from Rd 4, 1 mile west of McCool, or 9 miles south of York, NE at 4:30 PM CDT:

There was flying debris with an intense RFD near Cordova. This was on Route 76A between Cordova, NE and Highway US 6 from 5:05-5:08 PM CDT. A funnel may be visible at 1:33.

It became a large high-precipitation supercell by the time it passed near Linlocln. This was shot from near Omaha along I-680 at 72nd street from 7:25-7:29 PM CDT:

Now we are on I-680 just west of where it joins I-80 in Iowa or 3 miles north of Neola, IA at 8:02 PM CDT: