The Start of Chasecation 2010!

Greetings everyone and welcome to the fun adventures of Justin, Becky and BJ. Later this afternoon we'll leave Lawton, Oklahoma for 6 days on a road trip of fun and hopefully some crazy chasing. Right now I just got home from work and putting the final things in the car. BJ had a slight detour overnight and has placed him about 3 hours behind schedule. While Becky my niece is on a flight currently from Indy on her way to OKC. However we should all be together and hopefully leaving OKC by 2pm this afternoon.

Looking at the newest models coming in as I go through them quickly while typing this. The severe threat looks decent in our chaseable area, the tornado threat doesn't. Current target zone will likely be the nnorthern Texas Panhandle or northeast Oklahoma. Today I'm choosing to pick a target that is along the direction we need to go for the days to come. As tomorrow through Friday looks to be northeast Colorado into southwest Nebraska. So right now I'm hoping to be staying in Garden City, Kansas or Oakley, Kansas tonight.  That way we can all sleep in and recharge our batteries for some nice chase days coming up. Even though the trend is to really weaken the upper level low as it become cut off. So the jet is weaker as well not helping us at all with the tornado threat. We will see as things can change at the synoptic level and very quickly during the afternoon at the mesoscale level.

Here is the latest SPC outlook for Today and the Tornado Probabilities

I'll try to keep you posted later but I'll be the driver today. So until we stop and not have any storms to chase. Just keep checking the live cam link above to see if we're streaming.

-Justin-