June 25 TWISTEX Chase

Status: On-The-Road
Location: Pierre, SD -- Devils Lake, ND -- Grand Forks, ND

12:50 AM Update: Finally ending the night in Grand Forks after eating our 'last supper' here in town. This was the last night the crew will be together for the year... Tomorrows' plan will include the drive to Grand Rapids, MN to disassemble the mesonets; then the long journey back to Ames, IA to put up the cars for a little while; and of course finish it all off with my drive back home which I can hopefully make before the day comes to an end. Stats on todays' chase and all of the chases for TWISTEX will likely be posted in the later days, for now it's time for bed.

8:50 PM Update: We've sat in Devils Lake for nearly 6 hours now waiting for something to show up in the area. Needless to say we've been shut out, not even good signs of convection in the clouds. Just had the wind shift come through, making winds northerly and finally forcing us to leave the area. In route to Grand Forks where we may likely stay the night...

4:30 PM Update: Sitting in Devils Lake, ND still; looking at some data now and I have some hope for the storms if they can develop. And that is where the hope is, that we can get storms to develop during the evening hours in the area and not have it wait until nightfall and the parameters start to drop... The crew is all in the Devils Lake area, thus shouldn't be too much longer until we do something worthwhile on the chase front.

3:10 PM Update: Finally reached our destination of Devils Lake, ND, left Pierre around 9:30 this morning. Not to bad of a trip, at least the latter couple of hours was terrain that we had yet to see. Don't have much information on how things are looking, but the rest of the crew is on their way and should arrive shortly. It's time to go and enjoy our pizza...

8:30 AM Update: Woke up to a not so great forecast for the area really, nothing is screaming at us at all as far as severe potential goes. In fact, according to SPC it is just whispering about tornado potential for the day... We are likely to be heading to the best spot we can find, northeast ND once again as we are in front of the surface low and it holds some at least 'decent' potential for storm development by this evening. If storms can develop in the capped environment up there, they do seem to have potential for tornadoes. Likely hitting the road soon to head to Devils Lake, ND...