My son Ryan and I took a gamble on the storm setup down near the Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri Border intersect point.  The goal was to get a tornadic storm very near the Interstate 44 corridor during daylight and not travel into the woods and the trees of the Ozarks.  The Storm Prediction Center put out an Enhanced Risk with a 10% hatched area for tornadoes.

We traveled westward down Interstate 44 and held up on the east side of Springfield, Missouri to watch things develop.  The hope was an isolated Supercell would fire out in front of the approaching line of storms in Kansas or Oklahoma and move toward us.  There were Tornado Warnings further west in Oklahoma embedded in the approaching line of storms, but that wasn't appealing enough to us to draw us off the Interstate for a chase.  We did eventually adjusted further west near Joplin, Missouri as we waited for storms to move closer to us.  A tornadic storm fired down in eastern Oklahoma before dark, but the distance from us, the tough terrain, and impending darkness left that option out of consideration.

The line of storms caught up to us just before dark and after getting the glimpse of the shelf cloud coming toward us on the horizon, we left for the long drive home without seeing anything significant storm wise.

This day goes down as the "Bust" of the year for us.

The ironic event of the day happened much later after we were home.  A tornado touched down  and moved by just on the northwest side of my sister's home near Moscow Mills, Missouri.  Too bad it wasn't daylight.  My sister would have had box seats.

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