VORTEX II: Day 13
Have we reached rock bottom? I guess I can’t answer that question right now, but if we haven’t hit rock bottom, I sure don’t want to find it.
The armada spent the night in Hot Springs, South Dakota. The rationale was that since the better shear was located in the northern United States, and the possibility of upslope flow in eastern Wyoming, that a supercell thunderstorm might develop west of the Black Hills. The armada “deployed” in far southwestern South Dakota and watched a multi-cell (non-severe) thunderstorm struggle to sustain itself to their north-northwest, near Custer, SD. By the time it was clear that thunderstorm turned shower had no hope of redeveloping it was too late to target any other storms. The armada called an end to operations around 6PM MDT.
Hope is still being held for the possibility of stuff in the southern plains late in the weekend / early next week. If it does pan out, the armada will need to hurry back down to the Texas panhandle from South Dakota. That does not sound like a fun drive…
