Malacka11

How are storm motions looking right now for this threat? Are they going to be as wack as Friday or even a little bit slower? I know people were saying that it was gonna be shit again for chasing but

Seriously props to you guys. Absolutely world class footage. If I saw something like that for the first time my pics and vids would look like ass compared to the cinematic stuff you guys managed to produce

The NAM was massively west with yesterday too if I remember right no?

@Chicago Storm How'd it go?

This image is really all I have to show for my chase yesterday. This is from the Peoria cell; pic was taken near some collection of farm shacks called Cornell on I-27. The storm kinda looked meh on radar when I got to it and it was a very messy affair overall with tons of rain and smaller cells popping up a few miles east. I definitely did not go about things safely; instead of approaching from the SW where I could actually see what was happening, I sat in the rain and let the storm come to me. I thought the storm was going to shit until the rain cleared and the edge of the mesocyclone became very apparent. I bailed due east to avoid getting screwed, got lost in the rain again, and the emerged to find the storm seemingly tightening up directly in front of me. End product was the little chode in the picture. For the briefest of seconds it was an actual tornado with a pair of suction vortices making it to the ground. Broad circulation continued for a bit and that was that. Tried to chase the cell on the way home but once it gets ahead of you, there's simply no catching up.

The Peoria storm dropped a brief spinup

I've been entertaining the idea of just heading farther SW so that I can ride those storms back or bailing head west to catch the second wave

You said Galesburg right?

I know where to go, I just want @Chicago Storm to spoon feed it to me so I feel more confident.

About to hit the road in Naperville. Late to the game. Somebody who knows what they're doing, tell me where to go.

It 100% feels like summer out there today at least comparatively speaking

This is what I'm trying to figure out. Obviously can't make the high risk anymore but the HRRR is sticking to its guns with a couple of decent cells farther east.

Sun just started shining through the window behind me as I read this

NAM has the earlier MCS now too.

Starting to look like the race westward from the suburbs might just be on tomorrow. Figure I'd hug 39 for easy relocation unless that ends up being too far east. Gonna be a nail biter though, if I'm gonna do it I'd really like to be on a storm from the minute it goes severe but I dunno if I'll be able to get there in time.

And that one I should definitely be free for so it's game on

That's what I'm saying. I have a decent amount of stuff in the books for Friday and while I could reschedule all of it to make room for a full day trip to Iowa or WC IL, I'm really not sure I want to do that for the reasons you mentioned. My other option is to be free by 2 and then see if anything remains more discrete in nature in the vicinity but I am currently under the impression that the chance of that is much lower.

@A-L-E-K @Chicago Storm Would you chase this? Assuming making the drive over to Iowa isn't an issue?

Major tornado in Mississippi right now?

Go big or go home

Stuck with the last little crack of dry air over head

Flakes just started flying here

Right! The morning after is what made it truly memorable for me. The snow was blowing so hard that even in daylight you could hardly see a hundred feet ahead of you.

I'll bet you my left nut that snowstorms kill far more people than tornadoes do so it's actually totally the same.

I took the risk because I presumed that nothing stupid like that would happen to me and because I knew I'd almost certainly be okay no matter what since I'm in the suburbs. However, the warning specifically highlighted things that the average Joe will definitely not figure out for themselves unless you hammer them home, primarily that the windchill and blowing snow means You're fucked if you get caught in the middle of nowhere. Hence why I say that if that would've happened to me like a couple counties south in the middle of nowhere, it would've have been a very dicey situation. The entire point of the NWS is to make everyone's lives easier by offering reliable forecasts. I don't see why we would want to strip their ability to do their job away from them. Not all winter threats are built the same, why is that so controversial? It can snow an inch overnight and not even warrant an advisory, or it could snow an inch in the middle of rush hour with cold road temperatures and fuck everything. Most people I know don't even start checking the weather until they catch wind of some sort of bigger story brewing, so methinks that a large number of advisory events would slip through the cracks until they show up out of nowhere and make you 45 minutes late for work. And guess who gets blamed if that happens?