Well, we had a great trip and now we’re back home! I hope everyone had a good time following along as we went!
Thought you guys might be interested in hearing about my chase vacation that
was this last week. We only got one tornado, but saw some great
storms!
One note is that Channel 5 did carry one piece of video:
Video:
http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/S92944.shtml?cat=1&v=1
While they say the tornado didn’t touch down, it actually did just prior to the video shown.
-John
like there was a tornado late tonight well after dark, but nothing really
photogenic in the tornadic department during daylight. I’ve heard a few reports
of tornadoes from people, but I’m not convinced yet… Lots o’ crazy motion
really near the ground, but who knows what goes for a tornado now…
on the storm near Buffalo, OK, that got close to producing a tornado a couple
times. That storm started to look not so great, so we dropped south to Lipscomb
county, TX. Near the city of Lipscomb are where the last half of the pictures
are from. I had to include the one picture of a news helicopter overhead. We
had two of them throughout the chase.
Got in the hotel late last night so didn’t post. We were on the gorgeous supercell near Hill City, KS, along with tons of other chasers. Got great shots, a few of which I poster here:
Yesterday was a driving day, so I didn’t post last night. Right now we’re in Garden City, KS, waiting for things to get started. I’ll update later…
-John & Jamie
We decided to not attempt chasing out here and instead did the rounds in and around Mt. Rushmore. Enjoy the slideshow!
Looks like we’re headed to Nebraska tomorrow…
-John
Getting ready to head out for the plains trip… Man are the models frustrating. This coming week was looking so bad earlier this week that we got a hotel out in the Black Hills for the week so we could get away and do something. I haven’t been out in the hills before, so this would have been a first for me. So, as Crazy goes, both the GFS and the ECMWF are now bringing in a trough by the beginning of the week. Of course, depending on which run you want to believe, I could be chasing in Montana or New Mexico. I’m hoping in the next day or two we get a little more definition… Gotta call and cancel the hotel room…
I’ll try to update this as much as possible this week for everyone who might be watching.
-John