March 8th 2009 reports

I ended up chasing a cell at the tail end of a small line in west central IN. The storm motions, speed of the storms were to fast to really keep up with. The main tornado producer on this day was a small bow echo that went pretty much straight thur southern IL and IN. Preliminary reports indicate that this bow echo did EF-3 damage in southern IN. I am a little upset that I missed the storm and a chance to document a tornado with a bow echo type stucture. But given that area being mostly trees and hills and the fast storm speeds it would have been a dangerous pursuit. I will have a chase account up later today on my site. My info on the storms and damage can be obtained here http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=ind&storyid=22735&source=0

Mean while another severe event is expected for tuesday! This event will be for mainly IL but western IN could see some severe weather!