High Risk... High Reward

It is day three and of course we had to stop at a Starbucks, not only for some coffee but internet to do some work. Yesterday we drove just over 1,200 miles to get to North Platte, Nebraska. We traveled out of Montana and the Rocky Mountains down into the beautiful plains of Wyoming. It is such an easy drive because the speed limits are so ridiculously high... When speed limits are 75 its so easy to set the cruise control right at 82. The car has held up great so far. Now to storms....

Wyoming

Yesterday as we were filling up with gas I was checking some stuff on my phone and saw the town we were headed to was Tornado warned... Unfortunately it was already dark and we were still two hours away, but now I know we are in the right area. A bit of a lightning show the last 2 hours as we drove and got our adrenaline going as we pulled into town.

However today as I woke around 8AM (not sure what time zone, 2 hr difference) was checking the SPC, NOAA and a couple other sites and saw that the storms were tracking farther east than anticipated. Unfortunately we would have had to drive to Kansas City/ middle parts of Missouri for a less than 10% chance of seeing anything. After a couple more hours of sleep I checked again and realized that tomorrow, Saturday, is setting up to be a record breaking type day. Not to alarm anyone but it is what is considered a "High Risk" outlook.
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day2otlk.html
What does this mean? Alot... Four major cities (Oklahoma City, Wichita, Omaha, Kansas City) are in the cross hairs for what could be a deadly day. We have already decided to drive to Wichita tonight to set up camp and then drive to an open area with a large road network away from any cities or debris for our chase day. We are going to take precautions tomorrow because with a day like this, safety first.

Secondly this is what they consider to be a outbreak day, or multiple tornadoes. How many? Well for reference the last time a "high risk" was posted a day in advance was in April 7th 2006 where over 91 tornadoes spawned stretching 9 different states.

I don't think that we could have picked a better weekend to be chasing. (Sorry mom). Ill post again tonight to give a target area of where we will be in the morning.