After a short of dissapointing chase the day before around the Souix Falls area, we decided to head west as both the 10th and the 11th were chase days. So early on the 10th Sean, Katie and I along with Jeff in another vehicle started the trip down I-80. This day was one were we needed the upslope majic as Dewpoints were far from ideal. Watching XM while traveling down I-80 we were watching storms begining to fire in the Nebraska panhandle around Scottsbluff, so we drove up to check out those storms. We intercepted somewhere North of Sydney and were not at all impressed, the storms looked like they were really begining to become an outflow show. We knew that the potential existed in plains of Colorado for development and upon review of data we noted that cold air aloft was now ejecting from the Denver area knowing this would be enough for initiation we darted South. Upon arrival we were treated to quite a show. I really almost shoudln't post any of these grabs cause honestly they dont even come close to doing the storm justice.

After watching a broad flat slowly roatating updraft base for a while it began to get more interesting.

A strong RFD was now really kicking up a lot of Dust, you could watch the dust be lifted up into the updraft.

After the area of rotation crossed the road we decided to cut through the RFD to get to the South side.

Quickly approaching the RFD.

Where's the front of the Car? A ham radio really was handy here as we could communicate with Jeff so we wouldn't rear end him.

Now on the south side with dust still kicking and strong rotation above it.

Really churning at this point, while we sat here XM displayed a 126mph shear marker.

Just as the sun came out hail began to fall.

This was one of the most amazing seens I have witnessed (wish I had my SLR then)the sun came out hail was falling with dust still kicking and strong rotation above it.

The hail show lasted for about 2 minutes.

This is what our storm looked like on radar.

Really had some impressive striations.