{"id":904,"date":"2014-05-11T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/?p=904"},"modified":"2026-01-12T23:58:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:58:31","slug":"11-may-2014-virtual-storm-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/2014\/05\/11\/11-may-2014-virtual-storm-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"11 May 2014 | Virtual Storm Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chase Target:&nbsp;<strong>Ashland, Nebraska<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A trough over the rockies places 50kt H5 flow from the Texas\/Oklahoma Panhandles through Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa by midday. The trough tightens over the afternoon, weakening flow across Iowa to just the extreme southwest part of the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A surface low over western Kansas drapes a sharp dryline southward across far east border of the Texas Panhandle and southward from there. At midday, a cold front lines up from the central Kansas\/Nebraska border through southwest Iowa and then a warm front up to northeast Iowa. By 00Z, the boundaries have advanced across northeast Nebraska and northern Iowa. East and south of the dryline\/cold front\/warm front, CAPE values reach or exceed 3000 j\/kg by 21Z. LCLs will be rising throughout the warm sector throughout the day, but the southeast Nebraska and southern Iowa have best opportunity to remain at or below 1000 m through 00Z. After that, they lower to 500-750 m across Iowa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0-1km SRH gets over 100 m2\/s2 on the warm side of the boundary, and spiking over 300 m2\/s2 immediately on the other side. Hodographs along the warm front have huge, open, clockwise hodographs. Pretty scary actually. Southeast Nebraska at 21Z shows 0-1km EHI over 3 while Iowa waits until 00Z to reach that level. NAM convective forecast puts discrete cells and then ongoing convection in southeast Nebraska as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Results<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nearest Tornado Report: 10.9 Miles Northwest<br>Nearest Severe Report: 9 Miles West [Wind: 60 MPH]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"582\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ChaseGameResults_20140511.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ChaseGameResults_20140511.jpg 582w, https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ChaseGameResults_20140511-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A monster supercell erupted in south-central Nebraska and tracked east-northeast along the warm front north of Lincoln, and then north of my target of Ashland before moving into Omaha. It was a long track tornado producer, with the closest tornado report being 10.9 miles northwest of Ashland. A scattering of other tornado reports came from far southeast and far northeast Iowa\/far southeast South Dakota, as well as a few from a dryline storm in central Kansas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chase Target:&nbsp;Ashland, Nebraska A trough over the rockies places 50kt H5 flow from the Texas\/Oklahoma Panhandles through Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa by midday. The trough tightens over the afternoon, weakening flow across Iowa to just the extreme southwest part of the state. A surface low over western Kansas drapes a sharp dryline southward across far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[27,58],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forecasting","tag-forecasting","tag-meteorology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":906,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}