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April 23rd Northwest Oklahoma/Southern Kansas

This chase report could have easily been about busting due to my inability to stick with my own forecast. I left Leavenworth, KS at 7am and reached my initial data stop Liberal, KS at 1:30pm. Several attempts at accessing Wi-Fi were unsuccessful due to errors with my Wi-Fi card. I need to thank chasers Lindsey Butor and Michael Gribble who were at the same motel parking lot and let me use their computer for a quick check data. Based largely on the SPC meso-analysis I was very happy with location. I did however note that my friends Eric Nguyen and Amos Magliocco chose a target south of Shamrock, TX where many chasers on the various forums were targeting. Lindsey and Michael moments later decided that they wanted to go further south to Canadian, TX. Now sitting alone in the parking lot without any data I was hearing little voices in head saying “You’re going to miss a big event,” You’re going to bust,” “What, do you really think you are smarter than everyone else?” The voices eventually got to me and I tore out of Liberal heading south. With Liberal in my rearview mirror I could hear new voices in my head, “Now you’re really going to bust,” “Why are you leaving?” and “Haven’t you learned this lesson before?” Five miles south of Liberal I turned around and went back to the motel parking lot and vowed not to leave until I had a real, logical reason to leave. That logical reason to leave occurred within the hour in the form of rapidly developing storms two counties away in the E OK PHL.