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20 Jun
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June 20, 2020 – South Dakota

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June 20th offered a marginal day for possible severe weather as a surface trough through the Dakotas and Northern Nebraska with upper 50s dewpoints provided a decent environment for late day thunderstorms. Whether or not there would be a shot at a tornado was a different question as it appeared low level shear would be lacking. SPC mostly agreed with this as they did not outline any tornado risk in the area.

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23 May
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May 23, 2020 – Goodland, Kansas

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While May 22 featured a decent tornado chance along the Red River, but given the distance, I opted to play a secondary target in Colorado hoping that upslope flow could get something to happen along the US 385 corridor between Lamar and Springfield. Alas, while we got to see a rather extensive grass fire which spawned some minor pyrocumulus, the day was otherwise a bust. After spending the night in Burlington we had a decision to make on where to chase this day

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21 May
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May 21, 2020 – Satanta, Kansas

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While the Rex pattern was continuing across the eastern United States it was expected to begin to break down and finally allow the amplified pattern to migrate eastward. A cold front extended from a low and occlusion in Saskatchewan southward through South Dakota to Kansas while a surface low existed in southeast Colorado. This presented a decent opportunity for severe weather near the surface low in Western Kansas.

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