Jackstraw

Van Wert (of course lol) wants to kick off the weekend with an 80mph Tpole snapping semi flipping dust storm lol. Tis a bit breezy with multiple 60+ gusts here. for the last 4-5 hours. most N/S highways and Interstates are closed with flipped semi's around here. Preliminary Local Storm Report National Weather Service Northern Indiana 127 PM EDT Fri Mar 13 2026 ..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON... ..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.... ..REMARKS.. 0115 PM Non-Tstm Wnd Dmg 2 N Van Wert 40.89N 84.58W 03/13/2026 Van Wert OH Emergency Mngr Multiple semi trucks rolled over and power poles down in Van Wert county. A lot of blowing dust too.

Waiting on a reply from my new dog sitter. I'm looking at hotels up around the Rhinelander area. GFS puking out 60 inches lmao. Most snow I ever experienced was in March just outside of Denver in 2014. 26inches in 24hrs. I'm 50/50 just to go see this insanity lmao.

Dude, after what you went through you not only picked a great storm to chase again but you did it right (except for one thing). It sounds like you (and from your posts during) were patient and waited for them/it to come to you which is always the best way IMO. ESPECIALLY in the Lakes/OH Valley where we get more 60 mph screaming F3's than most places. Your one mistake was getting on 65. NEVER GET ON 65 when theres bad weather lol. 65 will kill you and I'm serious. It's a Semi UFC ring as far as I'm concerned. It's bad enough on a sunny day. I seldom chase anymore because about 10 years ago my buddy and I were about killed when a Honda Pilot with Harbor Freight flashing lights plastered on it and 3 Iphones hanging out the windows going 90 mph blew through a 4 way stop sign and missed us by inches. Our chase turned from the storm to them and when we caught them we put the fear of God into them. They said they were "pros" and I told them so is this baseball bat. After that nope. You have more chances of getting killed by another chaser than a storm nowadays. Study, prep, pick, sit, wait. Thats my method now if I do lol. Thanx for the vid and hope you exorcised some demons

I've got to do a test run with a new dog sitter for my trip late next week. Hell I may just head N into the middle of this cement for a day or 2 for fun. Nothing better than sitting at a bar and hearing people bitch about shoveling concrete lmao

Models have been puking out 20-30 inch numbers inside 120 hrs all winter only to cave at the last minute to 2 to 3 and we've come to expect it. Watch this one be the models "I'll show you" moment lmao.

2 pages if it were 75 miles S. 1 of them all bitching and moaning. 12Z Euro spitting out 5 to 1 ratios for NE IL. Get out the pick axe's lol

Watched that storm on HiRes Sat throughout its life and that was the most impressive sustained updraft with intense rotation up through 50-60k ft I've seen in our sub. I'm also curious how that early lake breeze that moved inland and stalled right around the IKK area affected it. That storm sure looked like it got rooted into that stalled outflow boundary that collided with the warm front. Some extra enhancement there? Thats a rare updraft for even TX hail country to be juggling 5-6 inchers 5 miles in the air. Truly epic updraft.

If this long tracker keeps its legs look out. Its starting to enter areas less of farmland and more of subdivisions.

What a name for a band lol

Twin couplets now near @KeenerWx. Heads up

Yeah this one has legs for sure. Still good pressure falls out ahead. That was a MASSIVE updraft (still is) back around IKK. Like to see a Level 2/3 slice of it.

Strong couplet on tilt 4 from IWX. Massive updraft right there

Anvil on that storm is over 100 miles long. I mean divergence from hell on that thing with a 150KT+ upper level jet. You can see this updraft rotating through its overshooting top on sat. thats a trip. https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G19&sector=cgl&band=GEOCOLOR&length=12&src=nav

Full on hook now. We'll see if it chokes off. This could be a long tracker rooted. 30 miles WNW of Morocco IN wink wink

IKK storm has some 700mb help per meso analysis. Subtle shortwave pushing it along