As I had some obligations to tend to this evening (picking up my kids from their mom at Melvern Lake by 11:00PM), I did not get to do any of the nighttime chasing that is currently going on at the moment in the northern part of the state. Today, though, for me can be summed up in 3 words:
Blue Sky Bust.
Not a cloud in the sky in Larned as the cap held its course throughout the day for those who braved the southern target area. Perhaps I should have evaluated the H7 relative humidity forecast map which showed a majority of south central Kansas at 20% or less humidity. That dry air sure put a hinder on today's development. But, fear not!!! There is another chasing opportunity that appears to be coming around next Thursday.
Edit 4/25 @ 1:36PM: I should have went with my original target area as I wrote this around 11:30PM on Wednesday: Discussion: Interesting situation shaping up today at a dryline/frontal intersection somewhere in southern Nebraska or northern Kansas from McCook, NE to Norton, KS. Looks likely that storms will fire at the triple point and then gradually south along the dryline as the late afternoon progresses into the evening. Things will get much more interesting as the evening progresses into the overnight hours before the storms congeal into a massive MCS on its trek eastward.
# posted by VORTEXpursuit.com Storm Chasing @ 4/24/2008 11:50:00 PM
