That was kind of insane

The severe storms that hit the metro were not really in the forecast yesterday. I just got done pulling an all nighter and a last minute interview with the company out east that wanted to ask me some additional questions and I was just getting ready to relax and get a few hours of sleep before the insanity of the mod risk down south kicked in. And then it happened. The cells I was watching and thinking, eh, I don’t want to deal with traffic, about a half hour later, they went tornadic warned right on top of my target.

I was not too bummed out about it because of several reason. The main one to start was that it was that the visibility was nil. From home I could barely see four miles. The other was that this was in a major grid lock area and unless you were there, your not going to get there to begin with. The third, this stuff was so unorganized and we were not even in the SPC Slight Risk area. These were normal summer time severe thunderstorms with large hail and damaging winds.

What was funny was knowing that almost all of the chasers were converging on the stuff in TX and OK for the Mod Risk and even that was lame.
Total miles chased today was about 80 if you include the trip over to 494 and over to highway 52 then back down south where I intercepted the tornadic warned cell in Goodhue County. There was a lot of gust front junk and they were insane HP setups but on average, it was a better chase then most since I was back home within a couple hours.
Going back to bed now. I’ll post some pics later when I’m awake.