Boom or Bust: A Saga of the Cap vs. High Instability

A new storm chase case video is here!

When it is Prime Time on the Plains, the instability cranks up and the atmosphere's potential is maxed out. For today's storm chase case, that was absolutely the case.

Today we're going to Northern Oklahoma on May 25, 2016 -- the same day as the Chapman EF4 tornado in Northern Kansas. This secondary target, where unfortunate but fortunate souls like me had to settle for due to obligations, had a lot of positives to it. But there were negatives. A stronger cap was in place much of the day, meaning the sun would need to work its magic on an extremely unstable airmass to break that stubborn old cap for storms.