We had to say goodbye to our precious dog Owen in the last week of June.
- Brian Neben
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.
- Brian Neben Lexington Clipper-Herald
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.
- Brian Neben Lexington Clipper-Herald
It was the first day of summer and this chase came out of nowhere.
- Brian Neben Lexington Clipper-Herald
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.
- Brian Neben Lexington Clipper-Herald
“I fought the cap and the cap won,” one storm chaser said in the aftermath of Saturday, May 23.
- Brian Neben Lexington Clipper-Herald
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.
Society for Range Management hosts Nebraska Youth Range Camp in Curtis in June. Applications are now open.
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