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Friday, May 09, 2008
What to do tomorrow???
Normally on a setup like tomorrow I would not even be considering not chasing but tomorrow's entertainment could come in the form of watching this:
Spotternetwork is a website where chasers can show there positions while chasing using GPS. Tomorrows will be interesting because I imagine the number of chasers hitting this will be huge for several reasons:
  1. It is May 10th and so far this year all of the good tornado days outside of 1 or 2 have all been in the eastern states.
  2. Many chasers are still waiting to see their first tornado this year except for the few people who were in Osage Co. or Lamesa TX and maybe a few other odd ball events.
  3. Next week does not look that good which only leaves 2 weeks of May chasing and then the storm season usually ends unless you want to drive to South Dakota.
  4. Everyone got an early heads up with SPC putting out a Moderate Risk on there day 2 outlook.
  5. Arkansas is a central point for plains chasers, southeast chasers and a few northcentral chasers.
The entertaining part come from the fact that Arkansas does not have a gridded road network like TX,OK,KS so almost everyone will be jockeying for position along interstate 40, this includes all of the chasers and tours groups that are not even part of spotternetwork. Also factor in that all tour groups are in full force right now with van loads of people and this could be the only show this week. If things move east of Little Rock then everyone can kind of spread out due to the terrain but it a single supercell tracks anywhere near I-40 it is going to be total chaser gridlock. Most chasers except for the real die hards would not even be considering chasing this due to terrain but with the way this year has gone I have no doubt everyone will be there. As far as chasing goes of course I will be out there but I just hope stuff can fire a little further west towards Hwy 75/69 so I don't have to venture into Arkansas.

Edit 3:00pm: Holy crap! I forgot about the fact that tomorrow is Saturday, that will probably add another couple of hundred chasers to the mix that other wise would not have been able to chase! SPC did move the risk area back to the west which is good. With the area they have outlined at this point I would not be surprised to see storms fire west of Tulsa tomorrow.
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