Good morning from Garden City, Kansas. A mess of watches, warnings, and advisories ongoing for us right here. We're under flood and blizzard watches underneath SPC's moderate risk and hatched areas for concern. What a crazy system this is going to be.
A morning glance at data continues to point to a target between Woodward and Elk City, OK (I-40). We're within a couple hours of Woodward and about 3 from I-40. Storms aren't expected to fire til late afternoon if not at sunset, so we'll have plenty of time to adjust. Moisture and instability are certainly concerns, however the shear with this storm will be incredible. Storms which form will rotate and there will likely be tornadoes across the area from Dodge City south through Childress. Concerns over a stratus deck forming over the area are being discussed, but we're sitting under clear skies around here. We're going to move south and a bit east, so that's really the area we're concerned with.
My sprint data service is limited through northwest Oklahoma, so I'll be relying on XM for live updates unless we get close to I-40. One of the cell phone limitations obviously. My amplifier didn't arrive in time so I will be unable to test it on this trip.
We'll be setting up the vehicles later this morning after breakfast and probably wander our way into Oklahoma. Again, the big hope for today is lightning after dark, so anything else we see beyond that is an extra bonus. We shall see! More later!
