Bagged Another Tornado

Well, I did see another tornado today, near Grainfield, KS. It was a good, high-risk chase day, although I was awake for 30 straight hours. I had intended on getting an hour-or-two nap in somewhere on the road, but storms fired quicker than I thought. It was an elephant trunk tornado that I captured from the beginning to the end. It was beautiful! The number of chasers out on the roads was horrendous. Way to many people doing things they shouldn't have been doing, breaking traffic laws, and just overall being quite annoying. I guess there's no way around it though. At nightfall, I decided to call it a day, even though there were a couple of strong storms that were continuing that were producing tornadoes. I drove for about 2 hours in very heavy rain and winds of 50 to 60 mph. It was horrible. And, to make matters worse, I almost munched my wife's car in BIG hail twice. Ugh. That would have been bad. All in all, it was a fine day! There is another moderate risk of severe storms tomorrow, likely to be upgraded to a high risk as well. Although, I'm not going to chase it. I'll probably head home to get some rest since I'll have my own outbreak of severe weather to deal with Saturday and Sunday.