Storm Observation VLOG: April 3rd Illinois Warm Front Tornado
The "Illinois warm front" lore runs deep in the storm chasing and meteorology community, but it's also prone to big busts. On Friday, April 3rd a warm front would be lifting north across central Illinois but forcing was rather nebulous and it wasn't terribly obvious when and where the potential for a tornadic supercell may be the highest.
I drifted west from Champaign-Urbana and intercepted a pair of tornado warned supercells, one of which produced a tornado near the town of Hopedale, Illinois, though it spun up and appeared close to tornadogenesis many times!
