I left home at about 3:30pm and headed toward Sturgis Michigan area. I called Kurt Hulst so get an idea where to meet up at as him and Bob Hartig was coming down from Grand Rapids.

Kurt and Bob headed to intercept a cell that was coming across Lake Michigan. I then attempted to meet up with them on that cell, however I was not able to catch them. I then proceeded toward the Union City area when I was called by Kurt asking where I was at and telling me that he and Bob had lost data.

Kurt Bob and I finally net up just south west of Tekonsha Michigan. We then noticed a cell over by Elkhart Indiana that was starting to develop. We then started to head toward the Indiana Michigan state line with the plan of heading to Orland Indiana.

When we were just north of Coldwater my windshield wipers quit working, thank god that I used car wax on my windshield last week, we stopped at the truck stops just off of I-69 and I got the wipers fixed. We then jumped onto Indiana state road 120 and proceeded to Orland. Just as we entered Orland we observed a funnel about 3 miles west of town.

I called the net control operator on the radio and informed her that I had a funnel and the location of it. We then dropped about 2 miles south of Orland and stopped for a few minutes. At that time the cell started picking up on speed so we shot back to SR-120 and headed back east. We stopped for a quick look on the West side of Fremont. We then short east a couple of miles, and then headed north for 4 miles then back to the east and got just north east of the Clear lake area. By this time the radar was showing the system starting to bow, and even visibly we were seeing that it was turning to crap. We called off the chase at this point and headed back to my house for some food and fellowship.