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Red Toyota Corolla, had my phone on a dash mount running an app that lets me stream live video back to the Madison TV station I work for (when there's sufficient data coverage, which is spotty in that area, heck even basic voice is for me on US Cellular).

It hit the stable air/stronger cap. Guessing you probably passed me/I passed you several times on County A near Daleyville?

Argh, I probably could have seen this had I started going for the storm as soon as I took note of it, but I really didn't expect it to do anything and didn't want to backtrack further from home after making a big loop back from the Lake Delton area after an aborted attempt to get to the early cells to the north. I had of course just left Mt. Horeb eastbound for home and had to spin a frantic uie on 151. Hauled butt to Hollandale where it still had a neat looking rain free base with RFD cut but quickly died after that. Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

Storm near Mineral Point looks momentarily interesting on radar. Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

Sitting in Mt. Horeb, WI waiting on this severe warned mess. How anticlimactic after the seeming rapid ramp up in potential late this morning. Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

Also in awful terrain. Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

As I feared, these storms are doing their thing in the worst terrain possible. Add Sauk County's awful twisting, winding road network to that misery as that severe-warned cell continues east. Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

With more storms firing up to the S. What other August day does this remind you of? Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

As in the city in Green County, not Monroe County, correct? Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

I'm heading out the door, will probably head to Portage first and evaluate from there.

Don't know when was the last time Wisconsin was in a tornado watch with the tornado probabilities in the "high" category. OTOH, it is a fairly large watch.

Getting that feeling. Only concern is best storm mode will be in worst terrain (similar to Saturday). Fairly typical.

Ofc HRRR wants to track the strongest simulated cell along the Wisconsin River Valley at the Iowa/Sauk county line.

15Z HRRR shows the large CAPE hole from the IL MCS and seems to initialize with it on sim reflectivity much better than previous runs...we'll see where it goes from here.

I figured as much, the question is what will that boundary do when it hits the front and will that airmass be able to recover? Sometimes these organized cold pools can screw things up even with clearing (case in point 6/22/15 which was supposed to be a WI event from Day 3 but ended up in IL as far as ).

Eastern Iowa clearing, except for what appears to be another storm blowing up in the far SE corner. Look like some sort of boundary flying northward on a collision course with the NE-SW oriented one (the front?) in west-central WI/SE MN.

Looks like most of MO/IA are clear.

Nearly full sunshine here for the moment, but that cloud deck from the IL MCS is about to encroach from the south. Based on the way it's expanding, it may be around for a while. If it is indeed developing a cold pool, we'll have to hope it can recover. Monday didn't clear out until well into the afternoon, but if I recall correctly those morning storms didn't create an organized cold pool.

Expanded significantly at 13Z. We're getting some cloud breaks already. Yesterday felt so strange with so much sunshine in the morning/early afternoon of an expected severe weather day in this region.

So ofc they put it in MI.

Just saw a nice CG from my porch (missed it with the video, of course). My plant stands probably would have blown over had I not secured them to the railing with zip ties (they stayed upright the night in late July when those midnight tornadoes passed about a mile west of here, that was before I added the zip ties). Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

Getting breezy out there... Sent from my Pixel 4a using Tapatalk

Linear trash, that's what.

Watch expansion to the east is gonna be needed soon.

That would explain its perplexing lack of convection for most of the afternoon...