{"id":33812,"date":"2021-06-30T13:56:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T21:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=33812"},"modified":"2021-12-22T15:07:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T23:07:05","slug":"june-27-30-2021-sad-pattern-sad-storms-sad-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2021\/06\/30\/june-27-30-2021-sad-pattern-sad-storms-sad-face\/","title":{"rendered":"June 27-30, 2021 Sad Pattern Sad Storms Sad Face"},"content":{"rendered":"

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June 27\/T8 Start: \u00a0Denver\/lunch: \u00a0Jean’s Family Kitchen in Hugo\/End: \u00a0Dumas\/408 miles<\/strong><\/p>\n

June 28\/Start: Dumas\/lunch: \u00a0Big Texan in Amarillo\/End: \u00a0Wichita Falls\/404 miles<\/strong><\/p>\n

June 29\/Start: \u00a0Wichita Falls\/lunch: \u00a0Roys BBQ in Chickasha\/End: \u00a0Kiowa, KS\/487 miles<\/strong><\/p>\n

June 30\/Start: \u00a0Kiowa, KS\/lunch: \u00a0Yur Place in Hardtner, KS\/End: \u00a0Perryton, TX\/375 miles<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I think that Tour 8 of 2021 ranks right up there with the bleakest of bleak storm-chase patterns that I have had to work. \u00a0Fortunately, the guests were awesome, they understood my plight and their plight, and we managed to get onto some activity that was not entirely uninteresting. \u00a0One of the previous tours with a really bad pattern was that of mid-May in 2006, I think. \u00a0We had a major Death Ridge over the Plains. \u00a0For the 10-day tour we were in full SCENIC mode for the first 7 days. \u00a0(We managed a couple of so-so strong thunderstorm days at the end of that tour.) \u00a0As a tour director during such a terrible and blah weather pattern, I have to decide whether to go into “scenic” mode or to try to squeeze something out of nothing. \u00a0 For this tour, there was enough moisture and instability on the Plains each day for thunderstorms, but the wind shear was pathetic at best. \u00a0 I had to try to show the group some convection. \u00a0It is difficult to go from a severe-storm chaser to a garden-variety storm chaser. \u00a0All of the rules are different!<\/p>\n

Anyway, I just re-checked all of the SPC outlooks for the tour, from June 27 to July 2, and for all six days there was a combined ZERO number of areas outlined with even a marginal risk on the Great Plains. \u00a0That is just sad. \u00a0Should I have taken the group to Yellowstone?<\/p>\n

Below are pics from the 27th, somewhere northeast of Lamar, CO. \u00a0We wound up on a cell with a few flashes of lightning near Dalhart at dusk.<\/p>\n\n\t\t