As previously mentioned in the 4/9/11 chase write-up, my chase group stayed the night in Fort Dodge, IA. We ended up heading out early int he morning, with an initial target just east of the Mississippi River, in West-Central Wisconsin. We made it to the target area by mid-afternoon, soon after storm initiation occurred. The first two cells we made a play on quickly weakened. Our third shot was on a developing supercell south of Eau Claire, WI. This storm had nice structure, but eventually got tangled up with another cell moving in from the southwest. Due to this issue and the fact there was another left moving slipping cell racing our way with very large hail, we decided to move southeast. After the splitting cell weakened, we traveled back northwest to make a play in what was now one main supercell. Along the drive we apparently missed two weak tornadoes near Augusta, WI. Our next decision was to jump off out of this area and off of this storm as there was too much cell interaction occurring.
We ended up traveling southeast to make a play on a tornadic supercell which had passed through the La Crosse area and was headed the Appleton/Oshkosh area. We ended up intercepting the cell and witnessing a wall cloud near Fremont, WI. The cell was becoming HP and another HP cell was right behind it, along with dark setting in, we decided to call it a night. The fun wasn't over though...We were essentially "chased" southward by each following cell which ended up becoming tornado warned and produced tornadoes. At one point there was a large rain wrapped tornado reported within a few miles to our north on the road we had just traveled on. Besides the storms making it an interesting ride back home, a large amount of construction on roads in this part of the state made for a headache.
Even though we missed a few tornadoes, I'll consider it a decent chase day given it was in Central Wisconsin.
Some pictures from this chase can be viewed below.
We ended up traveling southeast to make a play on a tornadic supercell which had passed through the La Crosse area and was headed the Appleton/Oshkosh area. We ended up intercepting the cell and witnessing a wall cloud near Fremont, WI. The cell was becoming HP and another HP cell was right behind it, along with dark setting in, we decided to call it a night. The fun wasn't over though...We were essentially "chased" southward by each following cell which ended up becoming tornado warned and produced tornadoes. At one point there was a large rain wrapped tornado reported within a few miles to our north on the road we had just traveled on. Besides the storms making it an interesting ride back home, a large amount of construction on roads in this part of the state made for a headache.
Even though we missed a few tornadoes, I'll consider it a decent chase day given it was in Central Wisconsin.
Some pictures from this chase can be viewed below.
| Chase Statistics: Tornadoes: 0 Wind: None Hail: 1.00" (Quarter Size) | SPC Severe Weather Reports:  |
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