Sean Ramsey
EF4
My season ended up....satisfactory. Really all about diamonds in the rough this year and more like one of those Arkansas diamonds you have to dig for as opposed to the crown jewels this season offered up. My chase rate was also down this year, as I kept it close to home. I chased in Kansas maybe three times, Texas several times and the rest were within Oklahoma borders. I don't even have a good reason as to why this was the case.
Arnett was of course a good score. Littlefield, Texas on April 25th was pretty alright and an overall fun chase with the slow storm motion. The Liberal,KS / Beaver, OK storm on May 28th was great from a tornado/structure/low convergence standpoint, and maybe one of the best chases of the year for me was the Hydro, OK cell on June 14th for those same reasons sans the tornado.
I'm starting to really hone in on how I want to approach my future chases, so my criteria for a successful season is now tremendously different than what it was maybe 10 years ago. A storm that may or may not produce a tornado that is lightly attended by chasers with a near zero chance of causing injury or fatalities that I can soak in for hours accompanied by a low stress/irritation factor seems to be the direction I'm headed, which means I'll probably grade my future seasons on how much enjoyment I got out of it instead of how much I scored, or how much I missed. About to become the American Pickers of chasing I reckon.
Arnett was of course a good score. Littlefield, Texas on April 25th was pretty alright and an overall fun chase with the slow storm motion. The Liberal,KS / Beaver, OK storm on May 28th was great from a tornado/structure/low convergence standpoint, and maybe one of the best chases of the year for me was the Hydro, OK cell on June 14th for those same reasons sans the tornado.
I'm starting to really hone in on how I want to approach my future chases, so my criteria for a successful season is now tremendously different than what it was maybe 10 years ago. A storm that may or may not produce a tornado that is lightly attended by chasers with a near zero chance of causing injury or fatalities that I can soak in for hours accompanied by a low stress/irritation factor seems to be the direction I'm headed, which means I'll probably grade my future seasons on how much enjoyment I got out of it instead of how much I scored, or how much I missed. About to become the American Pickers of chasing I reckon.
