3 June 2010
Mission Location: Niobrara, NE
Description:
CAMA-C deployed on a nontorandic supercell south of Niobrara, NE. The parent cell initiated over Cherry County, NE and eventually split. Our target was the right mover. The strongest low-level rotation that the CAMA-C teams documented was on the SE flank of the storm. At this location, all teams observed a nice lowering of the wall cloud with scud almost reaching the ground. Relatively tight rotation was observed with this feature, however, our teams did not see any hard evidence of funnel clouds. A couple of V2 teams reported seeing brief funnels near cloud base. CAMA-C also observed a broad, arching updraft and associated shelf cloud with the storm. Toward the end of our deployment (01:30 – 02:00 UTC), another storm formed WSW of the target storm and became the new target. Visually, little low-level rotation was evident with this storm despite the fact that it was tornado warned. The original target storm was also tornado warned during our deployment.
HD video and DSLR imagery were collected by all three photogrammetry teams.
Deployment Sites:
CAMA:
Deployment 1: 42 deg, 28.865 min N; 98 deg, 1.848 min W
CAMB:
Deployment 1: 42 deg, 27 min, 59.83 sec N; 98 deg, 9 min, 2.52 sec W (with NOXP)
CAMC
Deployment 1: 42 deg, 36.847 min N; 98 deg, 15.839 min W
Deployment 2: 42 deg, 36.871 min N; 98 deg, 15.845 min W
Deployment 3: 42 deg, 36.848 min N; 98 deg, 15.840 min W
All of these positions were near MWR.
All photo and video times are in CDT (UTC -5).