An emb-175 flight crew had decided to divert because of a line of thunderstorms over their destinati...

Narrative:

On our way to oma we saw a line of thunderstorms sitting over the airport. We decided that the best course of action was to go to our alternate airport mci. This decision was made with the help of radar and information from ATC. Apparently they have a different radar in dispatch since they said it looked good and that we should try to go in to oma.I disagreed but my captain's decision now slowly changed. On our way into oma we encountered moderate to borderline severe turbulence and decided to turn around and go to mci.this is the second time in a short period of time that I have seen a captain make a good decision and then allow himself to be pressured into a bad one by dispatch. In addition to all that; when we were sitting on the ground in mci; dispatch said that 'it is mostly popcorn clouds building and that we should have no problem getting in.' I saved the radar picture on my phone because I could not believe what I was hearing. The airplane was written up for severe turbulence so we did not end up going.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: An EMB-175 Flight Crew had decided to divert because of a line of thunderstorms over their destination airport. The Company Dispatcher talked them into continuing to their scheduled destination. They encountered severe turbulence and then they diverted as they had originally decided.

Narrative: On our way to OMA we saw a line of thunderstorms sitting over the airport. We decided that the best course of action was to go to our alternate airport MCI. This decision was made with the help of radar and information from ATC. Apparently they have a different radar in dispatch since they said it looked good and that we should try to go in to OMA.I disagreed but my captain's decision now slowly changed. On our way into OMA we encountered moderate to borderline severe turbulence and decided to turn around and go to MCI.This is the second time in a short period of time that I have seen a captain make a good decision and then allow himself to be pressured into a bad one by dispatch. In addition to all that; when we were sitting on the ground in MCI; dispatch said that 'it is mostly popcorn clouds building and that we should have no problem getting in.' I saved the radar picture on my phone because I could not believe what I was hearing. The airplane was written up for severe turbulence so we did not end up going.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1269649
Time
Date	201506
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	MCI.Airport
State Reference	MO
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	EMB ERJ 170/175 ER/LR
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Initial Approach
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Not Flying First Officer
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence

An emb-175 flight crew had decided to divert because of a line of thunderstorms over their destination airport. The company dispatcher talked them into continuing to their scheduled destination. They encountered severe turbulence and then they diverted as they had originally decided.