As u can see on the chase mode radar scope… We ain’t seein’ sheeeit. Making the drive south in the general direction of the Bookbinder residence.
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June 18, 2009
Ahhh I love Iowa chasing… Not.
Hanging around Webster City, IA
Outflow boundary convergence is still pretty good to our southwest,
and congested cumulus development was noted way off in the haze to our
southwest as well as on visible satellite. We will be here in Webster
City until it is obvious we need to reposition or we have a storm
develop. More later
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Targeting Northwest Iowa
As expected, outflow boundary from early morning convection continues to mix
out across Iowa, with cloud streets and an upstream weak shortwave (along
with much needed cooler temps aloft), targeting NW to N Central Iowa later
this afternoon. Will likely head toward Algona, although an ultimate shift
toward Mason City may be needed as strong heating continues. – Evan
June 18th – The Road To Recovery
After a day of exceeding frustration, capped by a “beef-less” Arby’s at
midnight in Omaha, I was able to sleep in my own bed this morning, as well
as see the wife and kids (YAY!). Cooler heads prevailed and we’re going to
forego the Royals game and the crap tables. Now Antle-less, Mike and I are
headed for Iowa to hopefully do this outflow boundary vs. 70F dewpoints
thing the correct way. Looks like another great tornado day. Here’s to a new
day and a change of luck. Why are we here? Because we’re here. Roll the
bones. – Evan
A wee-hour in the morning update
We are not far from Lawrence, KS where we will drop off Jay and drive
to Evan’s place for the remainder of the night. Tomorrow is a down
day. We need it. We will not chase the northern Iowa moderate risk.
After the “bust for the ages” chase yesterday, I need a mental break
from this hobby for a good couple days. I’ll relax Thursday, regroup,
run a couple errands, visit my folks perhaps, and maybe even catch the
Royals game since they have a home game tomorrow night. Then Friday,
depending on how Evan wants to finish out his vacation we will either
A) make Friday a Day 2 drive to target for Saturday or B) drive to
Dodge City so Evan can pick up his vehicle and head back to KC.
Either way, I will likely continue chasing Saturday-Monday (if Evan
decides to continue chasing) or Saturday-Tuesday if he doesn’t. It
depends on the pattern, too, of course, but there should be decent
chasing ops Saturday through Tuesday given the southwest flow pattern
and good return moisture. It will be setting up farther north,
though, especially Sunday and beyond.
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Mike Umscheid Photography
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mesomike@gmail.com
June 17, 2009
We are heading to Lawrence now
You can follow us on the Chase Mode page back to Larrytown. You
shouldn’t miss us, we are “MissedTheShow” on SpotterNetwork for the
remainder of the night.. LOL
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Mike Umscheid Photography
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mesomike@gmail.com
A bust for the ages: This one hurts
This clearly goes down as one of the worst in-situ tactical busts ever
for me. But wow does it look amazing from behind!
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Mike Umscheid Photography
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mesomike@gmail.com
UGH#(@
You’re all probably watching spotter network wondering what the F*
we’re doing on this junk storm (SE of Loup City) northwest of the show
(Kearney to Grand Island). I’m trying to answer myself that same
question. Clearly the last two days of storm chasing haven’t been
fraught with good decisions. Intuition has led me astray two days in a
row. Pretty much sucks. Hope the rest of you are enjoying this that
are ~ 50 miles ESE of us.
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Mike Umscheid Photography
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mesomike@gmail.com
chose poorly once again
We decided to chase the western storm that developed instead of the
Kearney tornadic supercell. It was a tail-end charlie storm, however
it became undercut by the Kearney storm’s outflow boundary. I’m on a
streak here of poor decision making both in terms of regional
targeting and in-situ storm targeting. That’s the way it goes
sometimes, though. We will head south toward Kearney and east on I-80
to catch the backside of the tornadic supercell now near Grand Island,
but we aren’t expecting anything given we are sorely out of position.
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Mike Umscheid Photography
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mesomike@gmail.com
chase is on!
We had a tough decision to make… continue east toward the Kearney
storm or go north at Elm Creek and intercept a brand new storm north
of Cozad. The new storm north of Cozad has some incredible
razor-sharp convection on the backside and this is the tail-end
charlie storm. So we are heading north for the intercept of this one.
More later!
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Mike Umscheid Photography
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mesomike@gmail.com