June 9, 2007 by T Love.

As mentioned, we visited SPC and the NWS yesterday. Here is our group picture.

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June 9, 2007 by T Love.

11am, we met downstairs for a debrief from Thursday. It mainly covered why yesterday really really really sucked big ass monkey balls. Otherwise, there was no storm activity to chase so today was a very relaxing down day.

1210p, we left the motel for Lunch at McKalisters.  Good sweet tea. We left McKalisters at 115p to head down the block to the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) on the OU campus. Our group picture was taken there. Very nice facility to say the least. We left SPC around 255p for our motel in Wichita, KS. On our way to the motel, we saw the Blue Angels practicing at Tinker Air Force Base. That was very cool.

We arived at the Cantebury motel about 6p, checked in and left immediately for old downtown Wichita. We ate at the Whiskey lounge? Very good food. I give it a rating of 5 stars.

We are back at the motel, relaxing, and enjoying a few drinks at the motel bar. It’s been about 4 nights since some of us had a drink.  haha.

Maybe tomorrow, I will upload a few pictures. Tomorrow looks like crap.  I’m going to have a beer.  This is T Love say good night and good news.

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June 9, 2007 by T Love.

Synopsis (again),

Left motel at 915a to head Southeast Nebraska - Northeast Kansas area. Tornadoes, if they formed, would be moving wayyyy too fast in Wisconsin area to chase.  We did analysis in the vans. Lunch was at Bubbas around 204p for about 30 minutes.  We then dropped south. New SPC updates came out, Tornado watches out for our area all day, and things were looking promising.

We drove and drove and drove to see nothing.  This huge ass outbreak that was expected never materialized. What a bust. There was some thunderstorms in NW IL, NW MO, and Southern KS I believe. We arrived at the comfort inn in Moore OK around 950p. Paul checked in but we all stayed in the vans because we were going to check out 2 thunderstorms about 50 miles south. We headed south and the storms were headed NE….nice.

The storms merged and there was some rotation. At one point, we were directly under the Meso. We saw some lowerings of the wall cloud and the inter-cloud (IC) lightning was phenomenal. The few CG’s that we saw were really close and freaking bright. I have some pictures and video of them.

2am, we arrived back at the motel.  We spent nearly 17 hours driving and logged 875 miles that day.

Anxiety and patience were rising for everyone throughout the day. Lack of sleep iover the previous 3 nights s believed to be the main culprit. Take an already tense situation and put that in a warm van and you have loss of control. Van 2’s back AC doesn’t work. It got ugly.

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