The chasing vacation started with a long drive to the plains. We left home around 5 am and headed West along route 80. We passed through my future home for graduate school, The University of Nebraska in Lincoln, shortly after noon because of all of the damn one lane construction closures along the way. We ended up in Scottsbluff, NE and shopped around for a few necessities before hitting Sonic and setting up camp. A few beers and Dave ended the long day of over 13 hours of driving.
A view from our campsite.
For some reason, I decided it would be a good idea to leave the rain cover on the tent, you know, just in case. Good thing we did since we were woken up in the middle of the night by the sprinklers which would've not only ruined everything inside the tent, but prevented me from recieving a good night's sleep. Anyway we woke up the next morning and headed South to Colorado for the best chance for convection. The SPC had issued a slight risk for the day and we thought the boundaries observed on radar would favor a location for convective initiation. It turned out that other
Driving through a dust storm on a county road.
storms blew up over another boundary just behind where we were looking, and we decided to head further South to catch them and possibly ride them North. We had some good pictures which seemed to wet our appetite for tomorrow's chase which shows much more promise. The chase today was definately lacking moisture, but like I said we got some good pictures and video, and it was nice to see some supercelluar features. After some rain and small hail, we headed along route 70 to Goodland, KS to prepare for Thursday's moderate risk day. Should be exciting and looking forward to seeing supercells and a possible tornado! 
Ahh.. convection!
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