Chase Morning at Grand Island, NE

Well got up this morning and the first thing I pulled up were the surface obs and was not happy to see that the dewpoints have not yet advected up into NE. But the winds here are screaming out of the southeast at 20kts and all the wind barbs are lined up to bring the 54td air up from Topeka and points south of I-70 into KS. The surface low is nice, consolidated now and deepening in se WY at 996mb so everything is in place except the moisture. If that moisture can advect in here by 18z I think we will be good to go for today's action.

Katie is almost to Rawlins, WY which puts her into Cheyenne at 8am - a full hour ahead of her best hope to meet up with Alan so the two of them may actually be the next group to get out here!

Tony is meeting Tom and heading out of Denver at this hour so they're good to get here in time for initiation as well.

The day 1 outlook should be out soon so we'll see if SPC is put off at all by the lack of moisture return at this hour.