Vince and I left Miles City around Noon local time and was originally targetting the area 6 hours away over north-central/northeastern North Dakota… however, after the 1630 UTC SPC day-1 forecast came out… and a look at surface observations… we were convinced to play the secondary target much closer to us. We are now in Baker, MT as I type and we have lower 60s dewpoints here with light winds. The shear environment definitely supports supercells again today and I think we will be anticipating storms forming off the high terrain of the Big Horn Mountains near Sheridan…which will move northeastward into extreme Southeastern Montana… at least that’s the hope anyway. We will probably sit here in Baker until storms develop to the west or southwest of us.
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June 25, 2007
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At the risk of sounding like I am Monday morning quarterbacking, why didnt
you start heading for NE ND late yesterday afternoon when it was apparent that
the SE MT play was not panning out? I saw you heading west to catch those storms
in central MT late yesterday evening. You could have made it to Bismark by
midnight and then had a casual stroll up to east of DVL today.
Comment by finch — June 25, 2007 @ 4:15 pm
That said, I think you have a shot in NW SD today. But I would rather be north or nw of GFK.
Comment by finch — June 25, 2007 @ 4:24 pm
Congrats Mike!!! I blasted to Grand Forks, ND area to play under the death cap and got
Can’t wait to see the pics!
nothing
Looks like sightseeing for a few days now.
Roger Hill
Comment by Roger Hill — June 25, 2007 @ 10:54 pm
Jon, For someone who loves 60s dewpoints butting up next to high terrain… I’m surprised you weren’t eyeing the Big Horns… I’m not a "tornado chaser" anyway anymore. The storm northwest of Belle Forche was nothing short of phenomenal… what till you see the pics I post… we’ll disagree about targetology all day, but I have a love for the high plains vs. eastern Plains from a pure photography standpoint.
Comment by Mike U — June 26, 2007 @ 1:30 am