I’m not going to make this a very long post… but I’ll at least document this unfortunate chase. Tuesday, June 10th was a day off work, and I was rather excited about the possibilities of playing with my new toy (more details in the next blog post!!) the very first day I got it. All along, it appeared that it would be one of these marginal days for storm initiation, and if a storm went up, it would probably be all by itself, or at the very least, be some 200 miles away from the next storm. My target for this happening was Southwest Kansas, probably not too far from Dodge City. That isolated storm did indeed happen…. in North-Central Kansas! Needless to say, I never made it up there, and all I could see was this tremendous back-sheared anvil way up on the northeast horizon. This is a bust that is rather painful because I knew something like this would be extremely photogenic — tornado or not. There were probably a handful of chasers on that storm, and only one SpotterNetwork car made it up there and that was Charles Edwards. He actually blasted north from south of Dodge City early enough to get up there just in time before the last of the daylight. Meanwhile, after the first Liberal storm initiated and struggled to survive — only ultimately to choke to death on the cap, I continued west in dire hope that another storm could form on the retreating dryline. It never happened. I ended the chase and drove back home, taking the long way… north to Garden City on US-83 then back east-southeast on 50. I met up with Greg Stumpf and Steve Hodanish who were staying in Dodge — they also busted in the same area, so I wasn’t alone. You win some, you lose a lot more 
Here’s a StormLab screen capture from during the chase. Note my position no where near that big red storm. I’m at the bottom left between Garden City and Dodge City. D’oh!
