ELM CREEK — So I think karma might be paying me back for always going out on a chase and hoping to see a tornado. It’s a different feeling when that red polygon is dropped right over your house.
It doesn’t always have to be about tornadoes, clear slots, and core punching. Sometimes you just need a photogenic thunderstorm in Nebraska in late June to make an enjoyable chase.
It was the first day of summer and this chase came out of nowhere.
This chase is something special to me, a relativity local chase with supercells, tornadoes and gust fronts. It was the whole package in one chase.
“I fought the cap and the cap won,” one storm chaser said in the aftermath of Saturday, May 23.
My first storm chase of the 2020 season and I hope the saying about a poor dress rehearsal means a great opening show.
A time lapse of severe weather entering the community of Cozad on Monday, Sept. 30, 2019
I feel extremely fortunate after this 2019 severe weather season. On May 17 I fulfilled a goal I have been pursuing since I was a child, I witnessed a tornado on the ground. As a bonus it was in Dawson County, my territory as a newspaper reporter.
I will fully admit, I had all but written off the 2019 severe weather season. My mind was more on Husker football than it was on severe weather on Thursday, Aug. 29. Yet weather never ceases to surprise me…or humble me.
After receiving a battering on Sunday night from 80 mph winds which caused damage throughout Cozad, the community was treated to a serene sunset on Tuesday evening as storm clouds lingered in the area.
Sometimes storms surprise me. I wasn't expecting storm activity anywhere in the area on Wednesday, June 19, I was partially right.
A positively charged lighting strike takes place near Lexington on Saturday, June 8.
I have noticed a pattern during my 2019 storm chases, I pick a target, second guess that target, go to my backup and tornadoes form at the target I first considered.
The afternoon of June 6 was hot, muggy and atmospherically unstable, with CAPE values reaching around 1,500 j/kg. A low pressure system far in the south help to initiate scattered thunderstorms around 3 p.m.
LEXINGTON — Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol have arrested a Cozad woman following a pursuit on Interstate 80 Wednesday night in central Nebraska.
LEXINGTON — The recent rounds of snowfall have provided a moisture source that won’t be tapped by the soil until things melt. Drought conditions remain unchanged this past week.
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LEXINGTON — A 20-year-old Lexington man has been charged with motor vehicle homicide after a pedestrian was struck and killed in September 2022.
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LEXINGTON — Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol have arrested a Cozad woman following a pursuit on Interstate 80 Wednesday night in central Nebraska.
LEXINGTON — A 20-year-old Lexington man has been charged with motor vehicle homicide after a pedestrian was struck and killed in September 2022.
The man's arrest came about two weeks after a pre-school aged girl told investigators he had touched her inappropriately, police alleged in court filings.
Community members and state officials squeezed into a classroom at the UNL College of Law to support the first graduating class of Lincoln's DUI Court.
"I hate that it's become a battle with law enforcement on this issue," Sen. Tom Brewer of Gordon said, before police officials testified against his latest "constitutional carry" bill.
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A Judiciary Committee hearing on Thursday drew a crowd to the Capitol. Among the bills being heard was LB77, which would remove the requirement that gun owners obtain a permit to be able to carry a concealed weapon.
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