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This crazy shelf cloud storm required a whole heck of a lot of driving to see. I found one boundary from Brester to Ainsworth, or just west of that line. I watched it for a while but nothing was getting going. I had no data at Brewster so I blasted north to the Ainsworth library. That drive is a 44 mile stretch with no real options to go anything but north or south. I finally get to the Ainsworth library only to see a very nice looking supercell clear out in extreme nw NE. It was moving right along, heading southeast. It had a 70+ DBZ core with it and a couplet in the middle of it. I now needed to go back south that 44 miles and then blast west. Part way into my westward journey I hit road construction and had to wait forever for the pilot car to come back(I was the cutoff vehicle when I got there). I have no idea why I chase storms sometimes.

Lots of driving later, here is the beast, looking west, just south of Mullen. Right about here it gets this incredible push from the west which sends it e then ne, tearing the sandhills to pieces, or at least the occasional structure. There were reports of uprooted trees in this very location. Notice the cloud band to the right/north of the picture(ok, it is really hard to see in this but it was a nice inflow band).
I'm looking west in the driveway of the Dismal River Ranch. Things at the Dismal River Ranch were bout to go down hill. "Honey lookie there, death is coming". That is a damn cool shelf coming over the hill.
This was a very cool scene for sure.
All of these are from the same spot as it plows eastward, now looking north.

I flew se with the outflow from the now ne bound storm above. I thought the day was done based on weakening storms west of North Platte. This outflow flew south over North Platte so I got a room and went to get some KFC. While returning I saw something to the sw moving ne. It was a developing storm that turns into a beast of a supercell. This storm produces greater than baseball hail and earns a tornado warning over Cozad. This is looking se from my motel in North Platte. I talked with Dean Cosgrove the next day and he said this storm was producing the most lightning he has ever seen....I agreed. I attempted to count on video and can only guess it was averaging between 5 and 6 flashes a second. I was pretty tired but attempted to chase it. I didn't get far with it before I realized how silly it was. I was quite tired and would have to backtrack to get to my motel again.