Arrived safely to Amarillo early yesterday evening where I awaken this morning to find myself no more than a couple hours from my potential targets for the day. Hi-rez cams continue to indicated supercells initiating later this afternoon with a window of about an hour or two before dark where if a storm can get established and rotate, we could see a couple tornadoes out of it. Big hail certainly a likelihood out of these storms as well, perhaps up to baseball size. I have a couple chase-specific errands to run here in town, so I’ll pass an hour or two with that before venturing out to my target. Initial gut tells me the Childress area, despite a couple CAM runs indicating initiation further to the west along I-27. We’ll see where the dryline sets up and decide, but I’d lean to be a little south as opposed to north with cells expected to move east/northeast once they get going. They should lead me toward central Oklahoma where I’ll likely aim to bunk down tonight.
Beyond that, just wrapped some work obligations here this morning, so I am going gather myself together and start to load up and get out of here. It’s a milk the checkout day for sure, and I got an extended one til noon, so I have an hour before housekeeping starts beating down the door. From there, we should have a solid handle on where ew need to go and by when we’ll need to be there.
See ya on the road!