May 1, 2008: It was gray and cloudy when I woke up in Muskogee, Oklahoma, and I knew I wanted to get closer to the dryline and probably north, in an area from Independence, Kansas, to Bartesville, Oklahoma. I was concerned that winds wouldn't back much, as the upper-level support for storms would come into the area late, but the projected CAPE (convective available potential energy) was huge, and I was hoping for the storms to happen before dark.
