TUE 02 JUN
We were perhaps a little late leaving our hotel in Sidney NE, and had to drive a good 4 hours north to Rapid City SD to get close to today's target. We arrived around 14:00-15:00L, but had to drive through a bunch of messy convection over and to the east of the Black Hills - the extent of this hadn't been modelled particularly well, and in conjunction with extensive high cloud from the expanding anvil made me a little unsure if today would actually produce anything worth chasing.
Still, after some lunch we nudged north to Newell SD where we bumped into other British chasers (See Nature's Fury and Weather Holidays) and chatted with them for a bit. By early evening, a few severe thunderstorms started to develop over the Black Hills and farther north across E/SE Montana, but these seemed to split quite quickly with left movers becoming the dominant cells as they raced northwards. We attempted to catch up with a couple of these west of Buffalo WY as the sun began to set, but eventually gave up and headed back to Rapid City SD to find a hotel for the night. All in all, a disappointing day, but nice to catch up with some fellow Brit chasers if nothing else!
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