Tornado/Hail Season Refresher - 2016

You should see a great lighting show looking at the backside of the storms to the east. The 55k + foot storm tops are going to be amazing to behold after dark if you can get out from under any lingering cloud deck

 

A Wx radio is good to have but ideally for truckers you need one that continuously scans for strongest signal (travel mode)

But the warnings issued by noaa via radio are often meaningless except to those intimately familiar with that particular area. They often refer to tiny towns not even on a map.

With smartphones being so prevalent today, a good app is far better as these will show the warn area graphically on a map.

 

All chasers keep a battery handheld NOAA radio in the glove box if nothing else, just as a last resort backup in the event you get out if range of cell towers and lose data or the tower is slammed shut to new connections due to a dozen or more chasers up-streaming video when things get hot and heavy. Then they suddenly become worthwhile having.

 

And just never forget if you're near a tornado or supercell with rotation, there ARE going to be chasers in the area. Most will drive sensibly but some are high on adrenaline or driven by fear and be on the lookout for anything and everything in terms of erratic driving.

The chasers (you'll usually recognize them) are either trying to intercept or are trying to avoid hail cores or getting run over, and sometimes it can be hard to know which as an outsider observer if you're not familiar with the system in it's current state.

 

The chaser community as a whole is not sold on the Tuesday setup like the guidance models are leading the SPC forecasters. Looks like N and central Texas may get some good rainfall tomorrow late day. Hard to say what this thing is going to do tomorrow. As of Monday night if I had to target an area for chase potential, I'd likely be heading towards Salina or Newton and stage there by about noon and watch and see what develops near the triple point.