AccuWeather's Tony Laubach reported live from beneath a massive hail-producing supercell in Nebraska on the afternoon of June 7.
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00:00 We continue to track severe weather throughout Nebraska and surrounding states and with us is Accuweather's
00:06 Meteorologist Tony Lawback. Now Tony's location here in Myrna, Nebraska. Tony, that severe thunderstorm behind you producing potentially tennis ball-sized hail.
00:15 Yeah, Justin, we're hoping we're not going to find out here at this location, but you're looking at it.
00:23 This is pretty much textbook supercell. You hear the wind over my mic.
00:27 We're really, really going to test the noise cancellation here, but we are in the inflow region of this.
00:32 So we talk about this being in the notch of the storm and you see this storm here. Again,
00:37 this is moving right at me right now. It actually looks like the storm's turned left a little bit.
00:41 So almost moving due east of us right now.
00:43 You see kind of off in the distance there right above me kind of over off to my left and my right.
00:49 I don't know what direction that is, but off to my north. You see that little swirl, the teal swirl up in there.
00:54 That's usually a good indication. You see that color that there is a lot of hail within this.
00:59 Really, the core is just off to my north. This is, like I mentioned, the inflow region of the storm.
01:04 So when we're tracking potential for tornadoes, this is the area we're watching.
01:09 And you kind of see right off in the distance there just past the road north of the road.
01:13 That's the organizing wall cloud that we are watching right now.
01:16 Do have a lot of rotation with this. This storm is rotating like a top the whole thing.
01:21 Not seeing a lot in the low levels right now. I think this storm with all the hail is producing
01:27 is bringing a lot of cold air down. So I think as a result, it's kind of fighting its own outflow.
01:32 So basically, you see this inflow, all this air that's sucking into the storm right now.
01:37 I think as you get closer to where that wall cloud's developing, I think it's kind of beefing out a little bit of cold air.
01:43 So I think there's a little bit of a convergence. So that might be what that lowering is there off over my shoulder.
01:49 Maybe not so much a wall cloud, but again, just that converging where you see the cold air coming out of the storm
01:54 and the warm air that I'm standing in being pulled into it right now.
01:58 But again, this whole thing, I wish you could be underneath this thing. I wish I could get a wide shot for you.
02:02 It's just spinning the whole storm. The edge of it is right off to my car, so just off to my east.
02:09 And then it goes all the way around to the back. Then you see the lower area where it's lowering.
02:14 And then that brings it all the way around. And I mean, you could see this in real time.
02:17 It's fascinating to watch this process happen.
02:20 This storm we've been tracking for the better part of the last two hours. You've seen the live hits.
02:25 Now I'm starting to get a little dust in the eyes. We've been watching the live hits.
02:28 We've been poking in and watching this storm here. This is definitely the storm of the day right now.
02:32 I think the tornado potential's a little on the lower side than it would typically be with a storm like this.
02:38 Again, I think this is primarily going to be a big hailer. Again, tennis ball size possible.
02:43 Wouldn't surprise me if some bigger hail is in there. But again, this storm continuing to rotate right now.
02:49 The whole thing, again, you've got the color, the teals, all that indicated that there's some big hail
02:54 and probably a lot of it in there as well. See a storm chaser coming up the road here behind me.
02:59 So we've got a few folks on this storm. We're going to continue to track this storm through the evening
03:04 as this works its way down to I-80, Justin. But again, a classic, beautiful supercell storm here in central Nebraska.
03:11 Well, thank you so much for that report, Tony Lombak. Amazing structure there.
03:15 And Highway 2 does work its way southeast. So again, that's the direction that storm is moving,
03:22 along with some additional severe thunderstorms that we're following right now.
03:25 Here's the current depiction of our severe thunderstorm watches.
03:28 And these stretch from Ballantyne, Nebraska, all the way south to Woodward, Oklahoma.