Well I went out chasing with Ryan today. He usually goes with me. He drives while I ride shotgun and run the equipment. He’s come close to killing both of us several times now.

We moved south from Wichita intending to get on a storm near the OK-KS border area and try to stay on any storm that was either the tail end or had some distance between its southern side and the next storm down the front. Well we got on the right storm just south of the border. We kept moving east ahead of it and getting out to watch occasionally. There was a lot of rain way out ahead of it for some reason. It did look like a decent young storm trying to get organized.

Once we get on a storm I stop using the computer for the most part except for navigating. You can tell a lot more by looking at the storm than you can from radar. I went ahead and checked radar though to see what was going on around us and realized that the tail end of the storm we got on literally built south like 12 miles in a matter of 10 minutes and quickly broke off into its own individual cell. Of course it produced a tornado. I’m sure it was weak and we didn’t miss much, but it pisses me off really bad that we knew exactly what we needed to do and got hosed on it. The tornadoes over Kansas and Oklahoma are all going to be weak sister. We just didn’t have the kinematics to pose a serious tornado threat and LCL heights were very high. The CAPE was certainly there and that’s why we saw all those explosive storms.

Well now I have to take a look at Friday. I’ve been going in to work at 4:30am every morning and working 12 hour days, but there was an incident this morning that is typical bullshit out at work (family run business and I’m the bastard child). I’ve been busting my ass and working 12 hour days for 5 weeks and making the people in my department do it to. I never got a thank you or a “you’re doing a nice job” but I did get written up this morning because I suspended one of my supervisors for insubordination and they claimed I cussed at him, which is absord becuase number one I didnt and number two the human resources bitch, our CFO, my evil step mom and my dad with balls the size of raisins (that’s being generous) had a secret meeting without even talking to me or anyb involved first, so I guess they just came up with some imaginary storm. It’s unbelieveable. After they wrote me up I told them I’m not signing it and left. Fuck them they can try to figure it out thereselves because nobody out there has a clue about how that equipment works besides me. God I hate working there.

The good news is my attention is now tottally on storm chasing and forecasting. I also think I might have picked up a couple more customers today, which would be awesome.
I’m going to take a look at Friday and get a post up on that. I’m also giong to take a look at our long range prospects and post again.