CoD chase, day 4 and 5 recap

On day 4 we were right for the most part. It ended up being super capped over southeast Nebraska. A lot of people busted and Hobson owes me a coke.

The storms we did get, though, were frustrating. It seems like every time we got to a storm it dies. For instance, we were sitting in Kimball, NE, watching storms come out of Wyoming. They were in really dry air, sort of out of our target area. So we abandoned those to go to storms farther south Colorado. One started to look good and according to RADAR acquired rotation. But as soon as we got to within about 10 miles of it, PAAAH.

So we gassed up and went back north, where storms were initiating. They were initiating as lines and clusters, so we kept going. Going where? To the erstwhile Kimball storm that now looked like a pretty mean beast on RADAR.

Naturally, until we got close to it. It died right in front of our eyes (well, it was getting dark so really it died in front of our RADAR) and we went to Sidney for the night.

The next day was an early and long one--hence the not blogging. (Sorry.)

The new NAM and RUC were forecasting a major outbreak in north-central Missouri and south-central Iowa. It was a setup we had to chase.

What happened? You guessed it. We drove all day to get from western Nebraska to northwest Missouri. Storms started firing up and we went to them, only to kill them. One storm in particular was looking really good on RADAR--right location, shaping up nicely. Then we lost data and the mount for the laptop screen broke, Paul's radio wasn't working properly, and naturally the storm died. We got right underneath it and the updraft was a little orphan anvil. What happened? Cap, perhaps.

It was kind of frustrating, because of the build up for a rather humdrum denouement. That and we forecast the right area and it *still* went bust. I suppose the schadenfreude part of me is content knowing that many people busted in the area yesterday.

It is a down day today. We're going to Kearney, NE, for repositioning today from Council Bluffs, IA. We'll go see some sights and this evening is game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals (GO CANUCKS GO!!!). We're looking at around Kearney for the chase tomorrow anyhow, so the reposition will be a good one.