Busy day yesterday in southern Minnesota, which included my first two Minnesota tornadoes since the Wadena event in 2010.  The image above was the second tornado east of Truman, which briefly fully condensed to the ground.  This was the longer-lived of the two, not terribly strong, but certainly a looker.  The first one was from the same parent storms a few minutes prior with a brief, non-fully-condensed touchdown, with several minutes between the two ground contacts.  It’s not entirely out of the question this was one tornado, just had a multi-minute gap between contact, but we’ll see what the surveys…

The weekend setups became a wash for me, despite Saturday giving some play to pretty every place I targeted at one point or another.  The issue for me was that despite an early alarm that would’ve allowed me to hit any target, including the further east target, I had a low-end kitty cat emergency that I had to tend to, which by the time it wrapped up and I returned the kitty home, it was already after noon, and thus pretty well ended any hope I had to get on anything reasonable.  The good news, the kitty is at home…

Quick evening note; will travel my way out I-70 tomorrow, leaving a bit earlier in the morning than I would for a typical ‘travel day’ just in case a storm can get going in central Kansas in the afternoon; not expecting a ton out of it, but given the Sunday setup, this sets me up well.   Initially thought about cruising into Burlington mid-afternoon to see if the storms in Colorado would be worth anything, and I am just not convinced they’ll amount to enough to dedicate missing any central Kansas potential, nor sacrificing a full day’s drive out east.  Some…

Looks like things will kick off for me tomorrow… I sat out yesterday and today, and while I am not formally planning to chase tomorrow as I am playing it as a positioning day, there are some potential storm interactions I could have in far eastern Colorado tomorrow afternoon, so I’m not writing off tomorrow yet, but it’ll likely be a ‘just cause I’m there’ type of thing. As I eluded to in my previous entry, nothing in the coming days looks ‘HISTORIC’, or end of the world.  As is typical with these things, there is a lot of click-bait…

Busy stretch looks to shape up heading into this coming weekend, and it may extend well into next week.  Saturday through Monday look like high-likelihood chase days, with Thursday, Friday, and Tuesday also presenting some opportunity.  Still working out the details and logistics on what days will be my focus, and when I would depart to set up for them, so plenty left to uncover as the days go on.  Depending on where you get your weather information, this could be the ‘tornado outbreak of the year’?  Yeah, I don’t speculate on the high-side potential of these events.  As we’ve…

Thanks to Ed for taking the wheel early this grey Saturday morning… we’ve wrapped up a busy three days of chasing and have just left Peoria, Illinois to begin our long haul back home to Colorado.  It was a pretty packed slate of storms for us, although nothing terribly big, despite some high-ceiling setups.  I’ll have those inked out in the coming days, so be sure to check out the chase logs for those.  While we did see a couple birdfart tornadoes on Thursday in Iowa, I think Friday was actually my favorite of the three chase days as the…