Looks like a severe weather day across the central high plains on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. I have off through Saturday, so I plan on chasing in SW Nebraska and NW Kansas on Thursday and Friday. This will give me a chance to utilize the great tools of the “www.spotternetwork.org“. I plan on uploading my GPS coordinates to the www.spotternetwork.org page as well as to my own website via the StormLab software. Assuming I have a wireless signal, viewers will be able to watch my position in real time as I storm chase. Below is an example of what viewers might see (this was a practice run east of Albuquerque…you can see radar imagery will also be displayed).
I plan on having this “live” image incorporated into my blog on my homepage (just like it is now except the image will hopefully only be a couple minutes old). You can see an additional explanation here. Or you can watch my location as well as hundreds of other storm spotters and chasers via the www.spotternetwork.org.
Prospects for tornadic supercells are high tomorrow with a sharp dryline and warm front meeting up around a deepening surface low. Great 0-1km helicity will be in place with plenty of mid to upper level wind shear. The only concern I have is getting to my target area in time for the action. I’ve got a lot of ground to cover to get into a favorable area. Storms will also be moving very rapidly due to a 0-6km mean wind of 40kt from the south, and motions will get much more chaotic once storms start rotating. So, it may be very difficult to keep up with them. We’ll see. Wish me luck.
