WED 10 JUN
We had a fairly lengthy 6 hour drive to get into position today from our overnight stay in Brookings SD to a target of somewhere in N or NW Missouri. The overnight convection had pushed an outflow boundary farther south than models had generally suggested the day before, adding more time to our journey. We grabbed some lunch at Council Bluffs IA and then headed down I-29 into Missouri to try and catch a few fast-moving supercells (motions of 40+mph) with fairly early initiation, meaning we were often playing catch-up. The environment was ripe for tornadoes, but a lot of the storms were quite messy/HP so hard to get a good visual of any (mostly brief) tornadoes - certainly not helped by the poor chase terrain featuring lots of undulating hills and trees everywhere. A few tornadoes did occur (e.g. near Jamesport MO), but we couldn't see them from our position for the reasons mentioned above.
All in all a frustrating chase day, and you just know if you could transpose these storms into e.g. Kansas it would have been a lot easier. I also had issues with my GPS not being in the right place on specific sections of roads, which I've never experienced before. Anyway, we ditched the storms by evening and heading back northwestwards to our hotel in Omaha NE, deliberately booked in the hope to catch some severe storms that were due to develop during the early hours of the morning (been a remarkably consistent signal in the models).
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