Western Kentucky Weather wants to support Virtual Chase

http://www.theweatherboard.com/

http://www.theweatherboard.com/board/VIRTUAL-CHASETM-f56.html

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/

http://w1.spc.woc.noaa.gov/exper/mesoanalysis/

^^ Some rules and SPC links for VC Chase Day to help you pick out a target.

Virtual Chase 2009 starts on April 20th. Runs to June 20th. Weather Board is running it and you must register there to use it. I will give you an outline of the rules of Virtual Chase and give links for it.

If you want to be involved to go that link and register for Virtual Chase. In Virtual Chase you are a storm chase that works for a company. The goal is to try to catch as much severe weather as you can. Winner is determined by points per chase. Busts where you don't get any points can really hurt you.

On the night before you will select a city or town you want to chase in by Midnight on the night before the chase day. For April 20th you must get your report by 11:59PM on the 19th to be eligible. A chase day is where on 1730Z day 2 SPC outlook a slight risk is issued. You don't have to chase in the slight risk if you don't want to you can opt for the SEE TEXT area instead. Any Slight, MDT, or High risk area you can select from.

To win prizes you must participate in at least 50% of the chases. From April 20th to June 20th in busy years it may be 25 to 30 chases in calmer years it may be only 18 or 19 chases to make 50%. Most May and June days to have at least a slight risk to choose from

Point Scale (within 25miles of your target city)
Wind or Hail- 5
Tornado (within 25)- 10
Tornado (within 5miles)- 20

The points don't stack. So if your target city is Madisonville KY and Earlington has a 1.25 inch hail report, and the northside of town within 5 miles got hit by a tornado. You would get the 20points not 25 for the hail and the tornado within 5 miles, but just 20 points for the Tornado within 5 miles.

- Pick must be in by 11:59pm or 5Z the night before, but also if you decide to move you must do it by 21Z which is by 4PM. If you wanted to move at 1pm to Madisonville KY to Henderson KY for whatever reason you must submit the move by 4pm. If you submit it by 4:01 then it is to late. If you are on the move by 4pm than you are ok and can make it to Henderson as long as you are on the move, but you can't divert or move somewhere else once you get to Henderson after 4PM.