Karen Politte
EF5
Well, our burger at Braum's here has gone better than the day's chasing, so far.....
Highlight of the chase was being visited for some time by a Kingfisher (bird) near Attica, KS.....as we dawdled around the southern portion of the state looking at nothing-very-much. Don't know if I would have left home this morning, though - knowing that the only highlight of the journey was going to be of the avian-variety....
KR
EDIT - ADDITIONAL 4/11:
Some afterthoughts this morning.....
It's a pretty simple equasion, really. Tornadoes need shear, first and foremost, no. 1 priority - not CAPE. You can have all the CAPE in the world and no shear - and you're likely not going to get a tornado. You can have all the shear in the world - and very low (but some!) CAPE - and it's completely possible to get tornadoes. The only place these parameters were available yesterday was in the bent-back section of the dryline up as it wound into the low. Hence - everybody else busted.
Looking back - we would have been better off not bothering to leave home - and having a supercell train over Cleveland County in our absence doesn't make it feel any nicer. We weren't targeting NW KS - we just weren't! In fact - most of you will note that I didn't post ANY forecasts or target areas for this system - because we were 90% sure it was not going to get us out the door.
But then......what're ya going to do? Just leave that sliver of a T-box in north-central OK to its lonesome? Hmmmm......it's like tossing a piece of baloney out to a bunch of starving hyenahs. So close....and yet so far.
I am not upset at missing yesterday's tornadoes. Obviously I would have loved to have been on them - but we sat near Wellington, KS all afternoon and watched those storms drift off to our north on radar. It was.....well, quite boring. There was no chance in hell of us shooting off to northwestern KS after some of that cold-core, low-topped, highly-sheared tornadojunk......LMAO! So - the only way that our day yesterday seemed to differ from Shane's (apart from non-meteorological circumstances) was that we didn't even try to chase the tornado-warned stuff.....
Oh - BTW Shane ROFL......ummmm, we exited at Guthrie for a burger.
But luckily we were driving my little red '92 Mazda Protege......so you're pretty safe.
I don't think I was that tired.......and I was driving.
KR
Highlight of the chase was being visited for some time by a Kingfisher (bird) near Attica, KS.....as we dawdled around the southern portion of the state looking at nothing-very-much. Don't know if I would have left home this morning, though - knowing that the only highlight of the journey was going to be of the avian-variety....
KR
EDIT - ADDITIONAL 4/11:
Some afterthoughts this morning.....
It's a pretty simple equasion, really. Tornadoes need shear, first and foremost, no. 1 priority - not CAPE. You can have all the CAPE in the world and no shear - and you're likely not going to get a tornado. You can have all the shear in the world - and very low (but some!) CAPE - and it's completely possible to get tornadoes. The only place these parameters were available yesterday was in the bent-back section of the dryline up as it wound into the low. Hence - everybody else busted.
Looking back - we would have been better off not bothering to leave home - and having a supercell train over Cleveland County in our absence doesn't make it feel any nicer. We weren't targeting NW KS - we just weren't! In fact - most of you will note that I didn't post ANY forecasts or target areas for this system - because we were 90% sure it was not going to get us out the door.
But then......what're ya going to do? Just leave that sliver of a T-box in north-central OK to its lonesome? Hmmmm......it's like tossing a piece of baloney out to a bunch of starving hyenahs. So close....and yet so far.
I am not upset at missing yesterday's tornadoes. Obviously I would have loved to have been on them - but we sat near Wellington, KS all afternoon and watched those storms drift off to our north on radar. It was.....well, quite boring. There was no chance in hell of us shooting off to northwestern KS after some of that cold-core, low-topped, highly-sheared tornadojunk......LMAO! So - the only way that our day yesterday seemed to differ from Shane's (apart from non-meteorological circumstances) was that we didn't even try to chase the tornado-warned stuff.....
Oh - BTW Shane ROFL......ummmm, we exited at Guthrie for a burger.
But luckily we were driving my little red '92 Mazda Protege......so you're pretty safe.
I don't think I was that tired.......and I was driving.
KR