Pratt, KS to Wichita, KS to Tulsa, OK to Mt. Pleasant, TX
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Well a day that held a marginal chance of chasing en route to our relocation target of NE Texas turned out to be just a relocation day. Some big cells fired way up north in Nebraska, but chasing those from Kansas would have ruled out a big potential chase tomorrow further south and east. An isolated cell also went up south-west of Dallas, but we had no meaningful daylight left to go after it. It may cross us at 2am though given its current vectoring!
So we're now overnighting in Mt. Pleasant, Texas, waiting on news of a potentially very potent day tomorrow. Supercells, large hail and tornadoes are all on the cards over a large area. Our plan is to check the latest data in the morning and decide if we need to fine tune our position in the morning. This may involve chasing into Arkansas, or even Louisiana. Hopefully we can stay in Texas though - the chasing is not so good further east due to rolling terrain and more forests, which will restrict visibility, and a road network that is not as trellised as the good chasing country in OK and KS.
On a personal note, its been the most sober birthday I can remember for some time! Thanks for all the happy birthday messages, and for all the other great comments on the blog - great to know someone out there is reading it!
More tomorrow, hopefully before we set off, otherwise an update tomorrow night, as I doubt we'll have much net access on the road again...
2 comments:
Good luck for Saturday (day 8). The forecast looks great but the terrain looks poor!
Keithy suggestion posted on my map.
Its a tricky one - SPC keeps the high risk area further south (incl. where we are in TX), TWC holds it further north into SE OK and Arkansas. As you say, poor chase country (or "chasing in the jungle") as they say here...North Louisiana is my call. Then we can got to New Orleans on Sunday...
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