February 23, 2019

While a significant tornado event was forecast down South in Dixie Alley, I decided to play the cold core end of the setup closer to the surface in the marginal parameters of eastern Missouri. Rather than try to find an ugly, low contrast tornado hidden in the trees 12 hours to my south, I was hoping for some pretty cold core storms and skies much closer to home. A stacked, closed low was forecast over nw MO with cold air loft over the warm sector, and a dryslot kicking in from the southwest that would clear out a rainy morning and afternoon over eastern MO. My initial target was the Mexico, MO area where terrain is decent, and where an arc of low topped cells was forecast by late afternoon.

Approaching Mexico, MO I was greeted by rainbows, pretty sunset skies.

A dramatic looking rain shaft from a small cell:

I passed some sort of minor incident, maybe a car or two had gone off the road. The folks didn't need any assistance.

Heading back east for home, the cooling temps from the nearby front that were spreading over the rain saturated surface created blankets of eerie of fog.