This year's trip was a bit different from last year's with fewer chase days but more intense action when storms were happening. A total of six tornadoes broke my personal record of 2010, including the fun and games on day 8 near Morton, Texas and yet more of that mad, orange Texas dust that obscured everything and ended up being ingested into tornadoes including some mile wide wedges. It was also the coldest trip on record with four days below 11c including 7c and fog when we went to Mt. Capulin.
We had numerous tornado, severe thunderstorm and flood warnings with phone alarms going off constantly, had the company of may chasers including Reed Timmer in Dominator 3 who shot past us into the dust. Fortunately, the four hour long storm dissipated before arriving at Lubbock but still managed to do damage and caused impressive flooding.
On the down days we managed to do some interesting stuff, namely the Windmill Museum at Lubbock, Texas ...Dorothy's House at Liberal, Kansas..., the Big Well at Greensburg, Kansas, the Motorcycle Museum at St. Francis, Kansas and the highlight, the Cosmosphere at Hutchinson, Kansas with the Apollo 13 capsule.
Out of the 10 days the SPC issued the following risks:
Enhanced - 3
Slight - 3
and Tornado %:
10% hatched - 1
5% - 3
2% - 2
Tourist days - 3
Repositioning days - 1
Each Day's Travel:
Day 1 - Denver, Co - Dodge City Ks - 529
Day 2 - Dodge City Ks - Lubbock, Tx - 577
Day 3 - Lubbock, Tx - Dalhart, Tx - 302
Day 4 - Dalhart, Tx - Enid, Ok - 388
Day 5 - Enid, Ok, - Hays, Ks - 271
Day 6 - Hays, Ks - North Platte, Ne - 631
Day 7 - North Platte, Ne - Trinidad, Co -417
Day 8 - Trinidad, Co - Amarillo, Tx - 570
Day 9 - Amarillo, Tx - Lubbock, Tx - 350
Day 10 - Lubbock, Tx - Denver, Co - 663
Total miles: 4,698
Grand Total Miles: 46,922
States visited.
Colorado
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
Nebraska
Wyoming
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