August 3, 2008 Chase MN

The storm prediction center had us under a 5% Tornado Risk (and still does at the time of this writing). I headed to SW MN eventually winding up in Mountain Lake, MN just East of Windom, just North of the warm front. The area had impressive dew points in the high 70’s between Windom and St. James along with an unbreakable cap. I spent the time with Tim Purington, and Andy Gabrielson while MD 2013 came and went without any warnings being issued. I had been staring at something about a telephone museum, so just before leaving I went over and checked it out. It’s Heritage Village at Mountain Lake. A fitting bust photo for the day. It looked like a cool little place but, they were closed at the time so I just shot a few quick photos out the drivers side window with the SD1000 not wanting to pull out the SLR. I had a nice sunset shot lined up in back of an old grain elevator/co-op but, the sun set into some clouds just before I got into position.

On the way out of the parking lot to ‘Heritage Village’ I ran into John Wetter, then later Andrew Revering on they way out of ‘Heritage Village’. I went East to St. James stopping for gas and a bottle of water. Tim and Andy G were at the Citgo(?) and they noticed initiation in Renville County(big towers, granted they had difficulties getting going at first). They shot North, I headed up 169 eventually heading North through Nicollet to Norwood then home. During this time MD 2019 was issued resulting in Tornado Watch #804 effective until 6am (the night is not over but, I am going to bed). Once I got to Norwood it was pretty dark I pulled through the DQ for two chili dog’s watching some of the lightning off in the distance, I went home. I left home around 4pm returning at 10:30, total distance was 433km.

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