Finally! First Great Plains storm chase of the year! As I write, Bill Oosterbaan, Mike Kovalchick, and I are headed west down I-70. In another 30 miles we’ll reach Kansas City; then it’s onward to Wichita, where we’ll overnight. Tomorrow morning we’ll take a look at the models, and then most likely make our way toward familiar territory in the northern Texas panhandle. It has been a couple years since I’ve been there; I can’t wait to see big storms moving over that landscape again.

I’m not going to write much tonight. I’m tired. Last night I got only got three or four hours of sleep, having stayed up till 3:00 a.m. to complete a writing project for a client. My updates will probably brief until I return Sunday. Tomorrow, Friday, and possibly Saturday will be pretty filled with chasing storms and all the pertaineth thereto. When I finally get back home, I hope to have a few great tornado and storm photos to share and an outstanding chase report to post. So stay tuned, campers. This is the first decent chase scenario of the year, and I am geeked to be going after it. Tornadoes, here I come!