Storm Chasing In Central USA (10/3)

A last-ditch effort chase trip to the central US was done during the week from Wednesday (9-30-2009) and Thursday (10-1-2009). I took advantage of both time available to take off as well as airline points and headed out to the Central US for a potential severe weather setup from late Tuesday (9-29) and retured the morning of Friday (10-2).

This is for the "second season", where severe weather sometimes occurs in the fall months. Besides hurricanes (which none were intercepted), this looked like a good chase opportunity of 2009.



Unfortuately, and quite typical of 2009, the forecast models over-estimated the setup, and the atmosphere over Kansas remained capped on 9-30 and only a squall line was the main event a day later on 10-1.

The chase log can be seen in the STORM CHASING section of this site, under "Central US chases of 2009", or you can click the link provided below to go right to it ...

http://www.sky-chaser.com/mwcl2009.htm