July 25, 2017 – Aurora, SD Supercell

Discussion: After analyzing data, I decided to target Brookings, South Dakota as a good staging point for supercell development later in the afternoon. Every storm chase consists of hours of driving to target location followed by hours of waiting for storm imitation which happened around 4:15 PM followed by a tornado warning by 4:30 PM for the Brookings area. Later in the period I had an extremely low hanging wall cloud near the town of Aurora, South Dakota that was packed with damaging winds but also some rotation noted via radar. The result was a swath of damaging winds that took trees down and flattened several corn fields.