Vortex 2 is parked in Hays, KS doing laundry. Discovery Channel Storm Chasers teams have all gone home. I am back at work and doing chores around the house and flying my helicopters for fun. This friday is the 1 year anniversary of the Windsor, CO tornado and things could not be more quiet.
While not a 'death ridge', this pattern of zonal flow far up into Canada will kill things off well into June. We may get a few upslope days along the front range but that will be it. I was to do some helicopter video for DC this week but that looks unlikely until some sort of severe weather gets the teams back out into the plains.
I feel very lucky to have chased April and already gotten a respectible 11 tornadoes including our most intense close encounter on April 26th in Roger Mills county, OK.
So for now storm season is on hold until June rolls around and/or a western trough appears.
Introducing my new chase vehicle for 2009 and going forward! A new 2009 Obsidian Black Pearl 2009 Subaru Outback! With gas on the rise and the 1999 Red Subie dead and the Ford Expedition approaching 200,000 miles - it was time to go ahead and bite the bullet and get a new chase vehicle. I could not be happier with the setup. My video bar fits across the front dash holding my streaming cams. A new PVC pipe laptop mount above the automatic transmission stick holds my laptop nicely. All equipment is installed and ready to go. Let's go June - bring in some tornadoes!!
