We started the day in North Platte, Nebraska. We decided to target the area around Broken Bow/Ansley. We headed to Broken Bow and had our lunch there. A cold front was approaching from the west, and storms formed along it from north to south as the afternoon progressed. We targeted a promising cell, but it became linear quite quickly. Storms formed increasingly quickly southwards along the cold front such that it was really just a line of storms by early evening. A brief tornado did occur north of where we were, as we moved south, and we didn't see it - but a few chasers did.
We got to Ansley, briefly pausing at the gas station where we stopped ahead of last August's eclipse, before heading SE on the road to Grand Island.
We stopped a couple of times to look back at the storms, as there was a persistent cell on the southern end for a time, which may have been a supercell.
Near Ravenna we stopped for a while and I took some lightning pics. We saw a wall cloud evolve to our NW, and soon a tornado warning was issued for this part of the line. We saw a couple of funnel clouds, and a couple of people reported seeing a brief tornado.
We then headed to Grand Island and had a late dinner in Perkins. It's now 0143 and we can hear occasional thunder, and train horns.
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