I've been extremely fortunate to have two excellent meteorology education journeys. My Valpo B.S. turned me into a scientist. My Nebraska M.S. turned me into a independent critical thinker. Today the UNL Earth & Atmospheric Sciences was eliminated. Feeling very defeated today.

Very disheartened by the UNL chancellor's decision to recommend the Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Department for elimination, despite the opposition from the Academic Planning Committee's vote. Both the opposing and in favor summary noted the value EAS provides to the discipline, and both sides

Windy in Fort Worth.

They needed to ice the kicker, but didn't have any timeouts left. So they did this...

Welp, in the market again for a computer monitor setup. Not much of a gamer. Mainly do some coding and lots of GR2 viewing. I have been using 2, 24" monitors. Do I stick with dual monitors, or, do I go to a larger curved monitor (but overall slightly less screen real-estate).

Don't let the storm's odometer countdown to Derecho criteria get in the way recognizing the substantial wind threat this environment will support. There is a lot of moisture available, and, it's distributed in such a way to favor precip loading and strong evaporational cooling.

That was the biggest pain in the [neck] mesoscale storm environment I have ever had to try and navigate. Somehow outflow boundaries formed new outflow boundaries. The big lesson: We have a long way to go in CAMs handling cold pools.

I know we have supercells in the Northern Plains, but very interesting occurrence in Nebraska. Weak showers producing 70+mph winds. Big time evaporative cooling. Boundary layer lapse rates 9.2 C/km.

RIJ working efficiently to 1.) Increase strength of bookend vortex and 2.) Align the leading edge favorable for more robust meso vortex generation. A lot of available vorticity north of Interstate 94.

Quite the day in North Dakota. Two discrete supercells eastward, with ranging bowing MCS across the middle.

Impressive LEWP in Oklahoma.

Another supercell has developed. Thinking maybe this formed along a convergent zone of the previous RFD, or, could be another outflow that was sitting there from the previous convection.

A lot of cell mergers tonight in the Nebraska panhandle.

This supercell southwest of Lubbock has been fascinating to watch. Storm motion has been slow. This has allowed for a deviant rightward turns, drastically increasing SRH (and becomes much more streamwise). Also noticing the LVFE develop as these right turns occur, then low-level meso intensifies.

Quite the hard right turn this supercell took.

Storm near I-80 is trying to re-intensify. Thinking LLJ may be providing low-level shear. ZDR arc is evident again. Main question is how unstable can the boundary layer remain as the night progresses.

Deviant tornado motion? @cameronjnixon.bsky.social

This supercell when in it was in Nebraska had some new updrafts to the rear of it that tried to move left but died. Now, as a strong (with high potential of being violent) tornadic supercell, noticed that the hodograph in Iowa may not suppress left movers as much as the 2-4km winds back.

Getting 65 kts vrot about 3600ft AGl. SR flow was very strong, and this storm deviated further to the right as this low-level meso strengthened. Noticing that we don't have cell merger nudgers today, so these storms are taking longer to produce, but the background environment has enough to pull from

ZDR Arc reappeared on this supercell, turned right a little bit, and had a tornado report on it.

The supercell east of Lincoln appears to be ocludding. Notice though the extremely high spectrum width into the inflow of this storm, and also notice that RFD surge as this happens is getting back to the outflow. In this shear environment, new low-level meso could be able to easily develop.

Both the mean wind and right moving storm motions on this hodographs have strong, streamwise vorticity present. And overall strong shear allows for deep updrafts, favorable for hail because you are getting monster supercells. Notice though, that when this northern Omaha Metro storm took a right

Prior to the 20kft+ TDS appearing, this particular supercell received a strong nudge from another supercell behind it and seems to fit @cameronjnixon.bsky.social paper fundamentals very well.

Wow, not very often you see nearly every single updraft be a supercell.

Earlier runs of the HRRR had this as a favored corridor for stronger supercell(s). However, this may exit the better instability and moisture before it can really get going. LCLs may not quite be there, but LLJ is still pumping more moisture into the region.

HRRR sounding from eastern Kansas this evening, selected from area downstream of where two stronger updrafts initiate. HRRR continues to mix boundary layer quite well, with strong EML still providing some cap. However, stronger theta-e transport this afternoon below 850mb may mitigate the mixing

This cell had a few more mergers, seems to have gusted out, but has now taken a right turn into a favorable SRH environment, and may have a new updraft with stronger inflow and access to streamwise vorticity.

Cell merger along the rear-flank of the this storm the past few minutes. May be starting to see the 0.5° SRM develop a clearer meso signature. This may be the nudger it needs.

Near the bookend vortex, I think I am seeing a KDP dropout where I would expect a descending RIJ. Reflectivity was still higher but KDP went down fairly rapidly.

SRH continues to increase as these storms enter western TN/KY, with mean wind and right movers having plenty of streamwise vorticity. Also noticing that bookend vortex on the line further north, plenty of RIJ action to help strengthen that.

Growing somewhat concerned about this area of the paired inflow notches. If this part of the line surges and orients more northwest to southeast, becomes orthogonal to the 0-3km bulk shear vector.

MARC signature on the 3.1° scan. Let's see if this storm puts out a strong downburst in the next 10-15 minutes.

I haven't played organized basketball myself for a while now. But, is it just me, or do players today wait too long to initiate a foul when seconds are precious?

The big question will be afternoon destabilization with the current connection. The placement of this stationary boundary, surface pressure falls ahead of a deepening cyclone could lead to some considerable sfc wind backing. Would think any tor threat play is along the boundary.

This was the right forecast with the parameter space. And the end results aligned with the expectation. I'm coming to realize with each passing Spring, how many features aligned perfectly to make 04/27/2011 occur the way it did. April 2011 can't be the sole metric for a high risk.

Appears this line has gusted out. Still probably gets windy, but good news is meso vort generation will be more difficult. At the moment, no clear RIJ structure that would cause a surge. Hopefully this stays cold pool dominant as this rolls east.

Line is already moving at 45 kts with LLJ of 50+ kts. Not going to take much for these storms to pull that downward and push our severe gusts. Then add any kind of p' in the vicinity of developing meso vorts, doesn't take much to get severe.

All the boundary needed was a little bit more moisture to push up again, and boom. Strong line of convection.

Are they using Windows 98 for the score graphics? I am going to watch replays 30 years from now and think the game is nearly 60 years old.

I never met Chuck Doswell, but several people who have served as a mentor to me, had him as their mentor. I remember seeing figures from his early papers in my first mesoscale class. His work no doubt created a critical foundation for many in severe weather. Rest in peace.

Seeing commentary on the text product for the Winter Storm Watch where it listed 1-12" snow. A forecaster can manually change that, but there are a few things to keep in mind about how the watch is generated, and downstream updates can get very messy very fast if you try to get specific too early.

Happy retirement to Roger! Many years of just more than convective outlooks and watches. Thoughtful research and desire to make science better. And some of the most intricate hand analysis I have seen. Enjoy meteorology not rotating through shifts Roger!

Wow. This segment of the line is getting intense, fast. Another push from the RIJ, pairs with an inflow notch out of ahead of it.

Wrapped up very rapidly. Taking full advantage of the ambient environment as well as storm scale modifications.

Rear inflow jet pushed this segment back into balance. Now have paired inflow notches with favorable shear vector orientation.

I am not an AI/ML guru by any means but I am a user of its output, especially in mesoanalysis scenarios. I think it is great to see that we can train on NWP output including CAMs, and produce a similar level of accuracy in less time. There are benefits to that. However, based on my understanding,

Very healthy dendrites in this band of snow!

Age yourself with your first computer. I don't have a picture handy, and can't remember what brand it was. It was an i486 machine with a 428mb hard drive. MS-DOS with Windows 3.1. Also had 5.25 and 3.5 inch floppy drives. And the legacy turbo button.

Thought I’d also add my severe weather research/ops starter pack to this thread go.bsky.app/Kswq9wN

After several mergers and nudging this storm finally has a stronger meso. Appears to have caught up to the gust front.