Marcus Diaz
EF5
This day goes down as most driving/least rewarding day I've had this year, with 20 hours of driving and only a minute of footage to show. Oh well, that's the life this is. I left AMA at 4 AM to prepare myself for possibly driving all the way to Nebraska. I drove to OKC to pick up James Siler and we headed north. I knew the day would have a forced squall line at the end, but I was hoping for a supercell to form ahead of the line. Alas that wasn't the case. By noon we found ourselves sitting in Pratt, KS looking at data, and realizing we were in the better spot. So James and I did some local geocaching to pass the time, and before we knew it by 3pm some stuff started to fire to our west. We drove north into Great Bend where small short lived popcorn showers formed, but nothing stayed alive very long. Then some stuff fired in SW KS down by Meade, and quickly came our direction. As the storm went SVR warned we started our way SW on HWY 56 to intercept. The tail-end charlie had some mid level rotation and when we past Larned, the storm had a very beautiful mesocyclone-like structure. But as the storm went linear the shape fell apart. As darkness fell we just decided to go back to OKC. Not really a bust but not what I had hoped for.
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