Tom Lynch

I have to apoligise for a gap in posting but a Windows 10 update has completely messed my laptop up. However We chased in Montana and saw the most beautiful LP supercell . I will be posting photos but briefly. We made the long journey south from South Dakota to Dallas after dropping the guests off we decided to head for Childress because there looked to be a chance for storms. AND oh boy what a day it turned out to be. We had nearly every type of wildlife to contend with fox,deers, rabbits , lizzards and huge spiders. The storms produced probably the best lighting we has ever seen. It ever set fire to something close to our location. Photos from Paul Botten and Graham Moore

Here is a surface analyss for later this afternoon. This is a forecast and shows the low in central South Dakota with a warm front to the east of the low.

We are currently in the Baymont in Spearfish, South Dakota. Small target area for today and we are starting the day in the target area. Main risk will be extremely large hail and strong downdrafts which will produce damaging winds. There is currently a 2% chance for tornadoes. Again watch this space. George

After this we moved north and waited while a large supercell moved in from Montana. I had the most fantastic shelf cloud on it. I will post Grahams time lapse but feel sure that there are lots of good photos of it. https://www.facebook.com/graham.moore.56/videos/o.628268907220191/10155334295106174/?type=2&theater

Caught upwith a LP supercell in South Dakota, Just before it died.

Yes all of those states today. Some twice We started the day in Sundance Wyoming, this where Sundance Kid gained his name because he spent 18 months in jail her

Ended up driving down some fairly muddy dirt tracks - Video from Justin

Sky before the storms kicked off

On the way here we passed a few extinct volcanoes and the South Dakota sign

We are now sat in Sundance, Wyoming close to Devils Tower, i.e Close Encounters. We are in line for tomorrows action. We are still keeping our fingers crossed for some stormage for tonight. George

We are in Jamestown , North Dakota. Chased a few storms back to the town. Todays choices are slightly hard but as tomorrow looks to be the main chance for tornadoes we may just head back west . So we may be heading towards Wyoming to put us in a good position. We may get some storms to keep us happy. George

Spent the afternoon and evening in Sterling , North Dakota. The skies looked like nothing was going to happen. All the worng types of cloud were on show. However it did happen and we had some fantastic storms. Ended the day in Jamestown, North Dakota. Vidoes later when we have time. George

Currently in Gendive, Montana. Might gamble today east for a potential bust or strike lucjy and the cap breaks Again watch this space George

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All in all a very interesting day. We watched quite a few storms trying to develop, they were moving ENE away from us so we dropped back onto larger a few larger more mature severe storms that were moving in from the south west. As we needed to be east for the following day we kept ahead of the line of storms. We stopped occassionaly to take photos. At one point a small funell developed and so we cut south ahead a storm to watch the area of interest and allowed to storm to catch up with us. See video. We then attempted to get into a position where we could film the mamatus clouds but that meant driving down dirt roads which had been made treacherous by the previous storm.

Had a great day, We had dinner in Roundup and chased a few storms. Decided to head towards Glendive and csught s glimpse of a funell cloud, We then got battered by the incomming dtorm

A most interesting place https://www.facebook.com/StormChaserChickenGeorge/publishing_tools/?section=VIDEOS&sort[0]=created_time_descending

Our motel for tonight is haunted. http://www.hauntedhouses.com/states/mt/dude-rancher.htm

Had a brilliant journey to Billings. The scenery was out of this world.

The one huge difference between heading north or south is the temperatures. South = 100f here it was 52f when we arrived and expect it to be even less when we reach our target area

Ok we area motel in Wheatlands, Wyoming. We are 4,478 feet above sea level at some points on the road from Chyenne we were over 6000 ft above sea level. At this moment in time when we set off , we will be heading towards Casper and intend to be staying in Billings, Montana, however , watch this space. Today is another travel day but may get some storms drifting over from the north western states. From tomorrow we will have a few chase days. George

Graham took a few shots of the lightning before the storm hit town.

We arrived in Wheatlands and went out to look at the night sky all stars and no light pollution Here is tour 3 group photo.