Decided
to take a gamble on a Marginal Risk setup with a
potential of brief tornadoes. Isolated storms
were expected in the late afternoon in Southern
Illinois and the a line of storms would come out of
Missouri into Illinois later in the evening.
I met up with Tom
Stolze and my son Ryan and headed east on I-70 into
Illinois. As we moved east, we could see a few
developing storms. We met the first one crossing
in front of us right before Vandalia, Illinois.
We were hoping to find a spin, but no luck in this
storm.
As
we watched the other occasional storms fire, none of
them seemed to exhibit any sort of spin. We
pulled into Effingham, Illinois and had some lunch as
we watched for signs of storm enhancement. After
lunch, it was clear the storms were losing their
intensity, so the decision was made to head back west
again to play the storms now coming out of
Missouri.
We grabbed I-70
again heading westbound. A few storms out in
front of the line of storms got our attention.
We exited I-70 at the Greenville, Illinois exit to
maneuver in front of them.
We
played a bit of back and forth as we took a look at
multiple cells that would move by us. Only one
of the storms showed a bit of promise with a lowering,
but the rotation on the storm was very weak.
May 25, 2022 
