Day 34-35: The End Of V2 2009

This is going to short… Day 34 we travelled around waiting for something in a marginal environment to no avail.  We ended operations early and headed to Liberal, Kansas to spend the night.  Day 35 ( June 13) , we travelled to the Panhandle of Texas.  It was looking promising this morning, but when the sounding units launched balloons early afternoon along a north south road about 30-40 km apart, our hopes dwindled.  There was an extremely strong cap that required temperatures to warm into the 110′s in order for it to be broken.  Luckily there was a boost from a disurbance aloft, but it was not enough to produce a tornado.  We ended up targeting a storm that quickly died once the Armada took some data on it.  I did get some sweet pictures. We even stopped in a location that received some really cool looking hail stones.  I will show you the pictures later.  Its late and we have to take care of some data business in the morning before we head to Norman, OK from Amarillo, TX to turn in our trucks.    Our goal is then to begin the trek eastward to Raleigh.  We wont be doing it all at once, but we hope to knock down the mileage, stay somewhere maybe near Little Rock or Memphis and drive the rest of the way on Monday.