After a long day chasing on April
19th, we spent the night in Lenexa, Kansas
at Brian's place and awoke to a Slight Risk
in Illinois. Brian chose to pass on
the set up, but since Lucas Munzlinger and I
were heading that direction to head home
anyway, we took the opportunity to extend
our chase one more day. On the way
back, my son Ryan let us know he was
available to join us, so we picked him up
back at home.
Now the question was, do we
head north on the Missouri or Illinois
side of the Mississippi River. The
best target appeared to be up near the
Iowa/Illinois border, but our late start
in the morning did not allow enough time
get there in time, so we made the decision
to head up
on the Illinois
side on Highway 367, the 67. We
targeted some cells that were coming out
of Missouri near Bowling Green.
We backtracked a bit west once we got
close to Interstate 72 and around
Winchester, Illinois, watched the first
cell approach. We lined ourselves up
with the storm to watch the back end
approach. It had a very nice wall
cloud and was visibly rotating, produced a
funnel cloud, but could never condense a
tornado down to the ground.
April 20, 2023 
