June 18 TWISTEX Update

Status: On-The-Road
Location: Grand Forks, ND -- Terril, IA

Hitting the road for home today as the severe weather threat over the northern plains is diminished considerably along the cold front. After finding a place that was open at 1 AM last night for food and getting it delivered to the hotel, it was around 2 AM. Another late night, but with a route for home today allowed us to take it easy and get off to a fairly late start. I'll be dropped off near Sioux City to make my way home from this trip, which was once again mainly unsuccessful.

June 15 Travel: Home to Sioux Falls, SD -- 134 Miles (2 Hours, 30 Minutes)
June 16 Travel: Sioux Falls, SD to Wyoming to Pierre, SD -- 780.26 Miles (16 Hours, 50 Minutes)
June 17 Travel: Pierre, SD to northwest ND to Grand Forks, ND -- 520 Miles (12 Hours, 53 Minutes)
June 18 Travel: Grand Forks, ND to Home -- 510 Miles (10 Hours, 10 Minutes)

TWISTEX will hopefully once again get another chase in before this month is complete, but forecasts are not very helpful in showing good systems once again. Haven't had a chance to look at anything for the extended outlook, so I don't have any great idea of when we could go out again. SPC did have portions of the northern plains in their extended day 4-8 outlook yesterday, but the system responsible would likely be another cold front passage. Updates will continue in hopes of operations once again...