Tour 5 Day 4 - Moderate Risk And Ian Is Fasting Today

[IanM]

After over nighting in Pierre, South Dakota, the plan is to head east around 180 miles to lunch and watch for developments. I'll let someone more technical outline the risk, but SPC has it pegged as a 10% risk of tornado, with discrete supercells and long lived tornados a possibility, along with 2" hail, damaging winds and lightning.

The guests are all twitching to get out and play with the first big day of Tour 5.

[Arron]

AVE IT!

Good luck for today

[ian cameron]

right we will be grabing a bite to eat in redfield south dakota then heading east to watertown and sit there until things start to happen

[Supercell 89]

Good Luck guys!

[Nick F]

For a moment I thought Ian was fasting in readiness for the 72oz steak challenge - then I realised you're all a long way from Texas and a very large burger was consumed.

Think Huron to Watertown is a good spot to target - 15z RUC shows strong 0-1km shear and 4000 j/kg + CAPE in that area

Good luck guys, 10% tornado risk/Moderate Risks have been few and far between this season, so hope SPC is on the ball and you bag a nado or two. Keep out them hail cores though!

[ian cameron]

well we are now heading north to Aberdeen we will fuel up there and see what happens

[Tom Lynch]

Hi Ian C , Paul & I M

Have to agree with Nick's target area. Do see an MCS forming out east into Minnesota. Will keep my fingers crossed for you all this pm. Stay safe.

Tom

[nsrobins]

Afternoon Team.Just watching the Portugal v Holland decider. Good game.

I might be edging towards Brookings, SD which is south of you for fire-up. The OFB from the ongoing MN stuff looks to be best placed to kick start convection pretty soon now just west of the MN border.

[ian cameron]

hi guys we are now heading east from Aberdeen on hwy 12 will keep you updated

[ItIsGee]

'...now you're going to die!.....'

[ian cameron]

'...now you're going to die!.....'

Paul says thats becouse you blocked him on facebook lol

and an update we are just about at the I29 at summit

[lewisosd]

Good luck guys. Go get em!

[Paul]

For those who aren't watching, the live stream is online

http://goo.gl/xQlt3

[ian cameron]

streaming should be good now just about to set off to grab us a storm just north of us

[ian cameron]

on the hwy 127 in the middle of all the storms fantastic

[ian cameron]

we are in minasota just watching multiple cells all around us just hoping one drops a nado for us

[ian cameron]

we have bagged ourselves our first tornado have a few blurry pics as we had tornadic cells all around us now going to see if we can get another before it gets to dark then some lightning opertunities been a great day so far

[ian cameron]

heading to minneapolis for tonight will get there around 0245hrs been a long day but well worth it tornado's some good structure and stuck in the middle of 5 tornado warned cells and lastly some great lightning now 150 miles to the hotel so were in striking distance for tomorrows risk

[D-J-V]

Wheeeey TORNADOOOOOO

Good work team, Minneapolis! Thats crazy to think we were pretty much in Mexico on T2!

[Paul]

Video from Ian of one of the cells that was kicking out some serious lightning and doing it's best to drop a tornado

[Paul Sherman]

Mothership!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Methuselah]

Video from Ian of one of the cells that was kicking out some serious lightning and doing it's best to drop a tornado

Awesome storm!!!

[Tom Lynch]

Fantastic storm, nice video .

Tom

[pottyprof]

Mind blowing!!

[Nath]

My god that is an insane video. I thought getting 1 strike a minute was a good storm LOL