Made it home last night right around 9pm as expected. A very nice change of pace considering the extreme distances the early season has already taken me. Fortunately the self-induced short leash prevented me from venturing down to southwestern New Mexico where a lot of chasers got screwed. In fact, only three tornado reports came out of yesterday, two of them clear the hell up in southeastern Minnesota (even those were dubbed 'possible'). The third was about 100 miles north of me in Frontier County, Nebraska. A couple of the Kansas cells were tornado warned after I left them, but nothing was ever reported. My decision to bail when I did proved to be the better choice as I felt as if I had scored about as much as I was going to get. As a result, I was able to get home and sleep a full night before returning to work today. But, the alarm clock came in the form of thunder as rare early morning storms developed over Denver shortly after 5am. Thunder awakened me and sent my poor kittens under furniture. If anything, it was just nice to listen to a gentle rain and rolling thunder, something rare for this part of the world.
As soon as I click publish, I am off to work on final projects. I have seen the slight risk in southwest Kansas for tomorrow, and because a few friends received a bonus day off, I may elect to tag along with them to go play IF I wrap things up today. Its definitely possible, but not terribly likely. We'll see. Don't count me in just yet. It looks marginal enough to where I am chasing just to be out with friends who haven't had a chance to get out much this year. Otherwise I stay back and wrap up my projects.
Things look quiet over the weekend with the next system moving through by Tuesday. After that, a scary pattern settles in that doesn't bode well for southern Plains chasing. Hopefully that will not be the case, but we shall see.
