Friday 8th June 2018 - S Dakota - Enhanced Risk

Started the day in Spearfish and we were bang in the target area for the last day of Tour 3. Amazing model consistancy placed a single Supercell over the Black Hills region NW of Rapid City initiating at 1-2pm. We grabbed a quick lunch and sat in Deadwood and sure enough an explosion of convection gave us our first storm. We took some pictures and timelapse of this before moving to the SE side of Rapid City with much better views of this SE Moving Classic Supercell. We were in a 5% Tornado Risk box but this Storm never even came close to producing a Tornado, but it did look very pretty and textbook which was nice for the newbies who had only seen storms like this in books.We pictured and watched this storm for a while always conscious of another area of storms going on to our east over the Badlands, these would have a much better chance of producing the goods so we set off for Interior. The Storms were ulrtimately messy so it was Plan B and hail intercepting which we did really well near Wanblee. We then set off for Valentine (NE) for overnight storms and the start of our trek south to Dallas. We did have 1 more bit of fun though before the end of the day when a Cg landed a few hundred yards down the road and sent sparks flying and waking the whole town up around 11pm.