Omaha Tornado Chaser: 6/1/11 Nebraska chase

This day was a pretty fun chase that almost ended with us being rewarded with a tornado. However, in the end, the streak of no tornadoes this year continued.
I was watching this day as a potential good day, but despite what looked like a good day, the probabilities issued had me wondering whether it would be worth it to go out. I watch a webpage that has forecast radar and other severe indices and as the morning went on, it looked better and better. My buddy that comes along with me when he can had the day off, and after initially deciding we weren't going, at 130 pm we decided we were going!
We headed west on I-80 with an initial target of Kearney, NE. Storms started popping on our way out there and the first warning was issued for Lexington about 20 miles or so west of our target. A tornado watch was also issued for the area! What was great about this day was the storms were usually moving at only 10-15 mph. This allowed us to get to a storm fairly easily. The initial storm died out so after we arrived at Kearney, we headed south to intercept some storms coming up from Kansas. The first storm was warned for some hail but didn't look that great. Meanwhile, as we sat off to the highway near Loomis, NE, our storm back near Lexington strengthened. Soon there was a tornado warning out for it so we flew up towards the storm.
Again the storm was only moving at 10 mph, so we were able to get to it within 30 minutes. It was still tornado warned and as we approached from several miles away, we could see a definite lowering and potential rotating wall cloud.
We found a place to stop roughly about 3-5 miles away from the back of the storm. No sooner did we get to our stopping place, then the storm started to fall apart. This was the general theme for the storms today. They would strengthen and for a while be very strong but usually would weaken within 30-45 minutes of developing.
Once we saw the storm was weaker and now north of I-80 we hopped up on the interstate and west of Lexington a few miles before finding an exit for a road north. It was here that we saw a fairly large chaser convergence including the TIV. It was also in this area where there came in a report of 2 rope tornadoes. If we missed those, it couldn't have been by more than a few minutes. I never did see a survey though. We headed back east into Lexington as another storm reformed and moved into town. We were hit with some pea sized hail and dangerous lightning, but nothing else. At this point we started to head back east down the interstate.
We made it to the town of Odessa, and again another storm had developed that looked fairly strong, so we pulled off and headed north a little ways to let the storm overtake us. It had some nickel sized hail and gusty winds but that was it. We then headed home.