Fred Gossage
EF1
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David Wolfson
EF5
The 700h dryness underlain by the surface juice in the outbreak area seems to me to be a distinctive characteristic. I, too, have good feelings about Cedar Rapids. My in-laws come from northeast Iowa and it's very nice country, Derek. 
Ted Keller
EF0
I'll go to Ohio but I'll have to stop at my favorite cafe in Brandenburg, KY first. They have a great tuna melt.
Matt Gingery
Hey Ted, I am sitting put at Langs Chevrolet in Xenia, Ohio. It is a fine April 3rd day in 1974. Can you pick up an extra melt and meet me at Blacks furniture store around 4:00 or 4:15 pm. I will just be hanging out here and there, and wish that internet was invented, I may also find a it difficult to find a microwave to heat up that sandwich you bring as well. This seems like a pretty good spot. I am going to run over to Blacks Furniture Store off of U.S. 42 for a while, and just hang between both places. The wife wants me to check out bedroom sets. It is always a fun time to chase these pre-Matt era events.
Edit 3:00pm: I just spoke with the local NWS office, and they are saying that some intense action has developed to my SW. I am checking out a 68 Chevelle SS 396 at Langs Chevrolet. I will update the situation within the hour.
Edit 3:00pm: I just spoke with the local NWS office, and they are saying that some intense action has developed to my SW. I am checking out a 68 Chevelle SS 396 at Langs Chevrolet. I will update the situation within the hour.
Ted Keller
EF0
I knew it the second I saw the satellite image. I mean, the review of this outbreak by Hoxit and Chappel is the first technical paper I had ever read.
Bob Hartig
EF5
Since this scenario still seems to be underway--or so I gather, judging from the posts by folks who are just getting started--I think, based on painstaking analysis of the chase results, that I'm going to nudge my position from Wichita Falls to just a shade east--to, say, Xenia, Ohio. 
Paul Austin
Vandalia, IL : moisture, wf, nice turning winds w/ height, reposition options, decent chase terrain, approaching upper air maxima, increasing 850 southerlies, all look good in this area.
Paul Austin
Well, not having guessed the date or read all the posts, I'll take virtual credit
for intercepting the cell that produced the long-track IN tor from near Lafayette, IN to near Warsaw, IN. I would have started in decent position, but would probably have been left in the dust by the time I crossed the IL/IN state line.
Bob Hartig
EF5
Oh, maaan...I just went back to review the charts and try to figure out how I could have been so monumentally misplaced, and I discovered that I totally reversed the read on the relative humidity map. I normally associate blues and purples with lower temps/numbers, and vice-versa with reds and oranges. But I see now that I had it bass-ackwards in this case. The moisture was off to the east, and what I thought was a moisture tongue in Texas was actually an invasion of dry air. Dooooh--time for a self-inflicted dope slap.
Paul Austin
Well, not having guessed the date or read all the posts, I'll take virtual credit
I can't take rl credit. I was only 3.5 yrs old. Go ahead and laugh, all you young-uns. Yes I was alive that long ago, but I didn't cut my teeth on tornadoes until I was about 8 or 9
. A nice wedge passed within 5 miles of my Greenwood, AR home at the time as I watched from a bathroom window. I was instantly hooked. I need to look up the date.
Andrea Griffa
EF5
With those maps, assuming a determined motion of the through I would have started in Paducha,Ky, then I would have checked to move east or North.
Josh Richardson
EF4
I don't think some people realize on here that he already posted the date plus showed the map of every track of the TOR's in the timeframe. Unless I am the one misundestanding something.....
Andrea Griffa
EF5
No, Josh you did not misunderstand: probably Niccolò didn't read the final part of the first page..
As regards me, I didn't remember this was April 3 74' case, anyway I was glad to point out, that if I had chased that day with these maps, I probably would have started from Paducah, a nice spot to start up!(consideration made before I saw the tornadoes report). That's all
That said, I wait for a new case, c'mon!
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Niccolò Ubalducci
No, Josh you did not misunderstand: probably Niccolò didn't read the final part of the first page..
As regards me, I didn't remember this was April 3 74' case, anyway I was glad to point out, that if I had chased that day with these maps, I probably would have started from Paducah, a nice spot to start up!(consideration made before I saw the tornadoes report). That's all
That said, I wait for a new case, c'mon!
DOH!
Andrea I've just watched the last post of the first page... 1974
I need more experience and I would like to learn much more possible!
Matt Gingery
I was actually born 4 months after the event. So, I guess I am a Super Outbreak Baby, LOL.
I actually knew it the moment I got a look at the visible pic. . .
I actually knew it the moment I got a look at the visible pic. . .
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