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January 31-February 2 Potentially Historic Winter Storm


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6/5/10 was hands down the biggest brainfart of my chasing "career". Several things fell through earlier in the day that didn't allow us to chase until much later in the day. By the time it all became sorted out the event was underway and we basically missed the boat. Looking back there were ways I could have got out of the prior obligations that would have allowed us to hit the road in a timely fashion. Sucks that a great outbreak happened so close to home and we didn't see any of it lol.

Ahhhh, but to digress...can't wait to see those Euro ensembles.

I met up with T-snow in Muscatine, but we ended up splitting up.

He ended up getting in prime position for the tor's. I was on the cell with the first wall cloud near Roseville before I ended up getting post on farm roads(no GPS FTL). Then I ended up falling farther behind when tring to find Route 67(once again no GPS FTL). I finally found Route 30 and then jumped on I-74 to Peoria. I was able to see the Elmwood tornado to my south, but not nearly the shot tsnow had as it went through the town. The wall cloud actually passed overhead while I was on I-74 coming into Peoria. It's a good thing it lifted because that would have went right through the heart of downtown. I then ended up catching a second tornado on the NE side of town.

To go back to the earlier portion of the chase, that following Tuesday on the way back from a chase(bust) I took the same route home. I ended up figuring out I passed that Route 67 I needed to turn on. Oh well...lesson learned, never forget your GPS. I also ended up stopping to see the Elmwood damage too.

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I met up with T-snow in Muscatine, but we ended up splitting up.

He ended up getting in prime position for the tor's. I was on the cell with the first wall cloud near Roseville before I ended up getting post on farm roads(no GPS FTL). Then I ended up falling farther behind when tring to find a county road(once again no GPS FTL). I finally found Route 30 and then jumped on I-74 to Peoria. I was able to see the Elmwood tornado to my south, but not nearly the shot tsnow had as it went through the town. The wall cloud actually passed overhead while I was on I-74 coming into Peoria. It's a good thing it lifted because that would have went right through the heart of downtown. I then ended up catching a second tornado on the NE side of town.

To go back to the earlier portion of the chase, that following Tuesday on the way back from a chase(bust) I took the same route home. I ended up figuring out I passed that county road(144?) I needed to turn on. Oh well...lesson learned, never forget your GPS. I also ended up stopping to see the Elmwood damage too.

2nd prime position for tor's lol :)

Walker Ashley and trip 3 with CoD was in the #1 spot, just south of the tornadoes while we were looking ESE and east at them the whole time.

http://thetae.blogspot.com/2010/06/652010-west-central-il-supercell-and.html

we had a slow up about 15 mins before the first tor dropped. Gilbert and Victor lost their GPS software so we had to take over the lead and had to fly through a small town and shoot east. Also didn't take the south option that CoD took.

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can you be more specific? how much further northwest

It's further northwest, but not further "west" by definition. It's also a bit faster so it can be deceiving if you're looking at the exact QPF over the past 24 hours for Omaha.

24 hour QPF 72 hours 03z

http://mag.ncep.noaa.gov/GemPakTier/MagGemPakImages/sref/20110130/03/sref_namer_072_precip_p24.gif

24 hour QPF 78 hours 21z

http://mag.ncep.noaa.gov/GemPakTier/MagGemPakImages/sref/20110129/21/sref_namer_078_precip_p24.gif

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Awesome to have you posting with us Earthlight. You're a great poster.

Seems like the ETA's have been way weaker/southeast while ARW/NNM have been much stronger and farther northwest.

Thanks bud, anytime.

The ETA members were skewing the mean terribly at 21z (but I guess that's what the mean is designed for). They were hundreds of miles east and faster than the NMM/ARW/RSM members.

http://www.meteo.psu.edu/~gadomski/SREF21PRSNC_21z/f81.gif

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100 miles is quite the shift at this stage.

already can't wait for the 12z runs. The addiction at its finest.

Agreed. Don't hold me to the exact number of miles, but eyeballing it I immediately noticed that it was pretty dramatically futher north/northwest with the 0.5-1.0" QPF lines at that hour.

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Make sure you have a cooler full of Steel Reserve. :pepsi:

That bump NW on the new SREF seems pretty significant.

Why not just drink varnish :P

Honestly if I am going to drink i'll spend a little bit of cash to get something that doesn't taste like gasoline

/ot

Everyone ready for the NAM pumping out 4" QPF? :P

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