Vote for Storm Chasers on Youtube

Hey Discovery Fans,

YouTube just launched a new contest today - and we want to win it! From today until September 14th, users will have the opportunity to vote on their favorite fall television show previews right from YouTube. We're hoping you guys can help us out with some votes, and here's how!


Step 1 - Visit YouTube's new "Fall TV Preview" channel by clicking right HERE


Step 2 - Find the thumbnails for your favorite Discovery Channel shows. We've entered previews for three of our shows: Dirty Jobs, MythBusters and Storm Chasers. Here's what the thumbnails look like:

And how they will look on the Fall TV Previews page:

Step 3 - Click on the thumbnail to open up the video, and then give us a "thumbs up" vote (if you want to!)

That's it! On September 14th, YouTube will select the most voted on preview to be featured on their homepage for the day. Remember, you can vote multiple times so keep checking back to vote for your favorite Discovery shows and tell your friends!

Thanks so much for your support,
Soumik@Discovery
http://discovery.com

SD today starting near sturgis to midland

August 4th Landspout Report

Spotter: Ryan Shepard (Greeley, CO)

Above picture was taken at 8:56pm MDT from Highway 20 between Harrison and Crawford looking northwest.

Location 1 (Blue) is my location at the time of the Land spout, and location 2 (Red) is the approximate location of the Land spout Tornado.

There was a lot of terrain west of Crawford, I had to get far enough west on 20 to be able to see the storm structure and ground. I got on a high spot for viewing the storm. It was dark, but the full moon and intensive lighting allowed for great night vision on the storm. The picture is not anywhere near what naked eye sight at night was able to see. Without lighting I was still able to see the tornado. The tornado formed very quickly, started from the ground as I saw a debris swirl, it quickly connected to the cloud base and lasted for 1-2 minutes. I called 911 at 9:05 pm to report the tornado after it had dissipated. I was unable to contact the NWS office because I was out of service. Cheyenne issued a Severe Thunderstorm warning immediately after I called on the storm I was spotting. I followed the storm as it passed 20 west of Chadron. After reviewing the radar and stills, It is my opinion the land spout formed on a rapidly developing cell fed by an outflow from the cell to the east at the time. At 8:55 radar indicates that the main updraft was not in the vicinity of the report of the sighted tornado, yet the southern portions of the 30dbz cell was rapidly developing. In fact south of the main meso, there was incredible striations and structure, where the land spout connected to.

(Picture 8:57pm) South Edge of Cell

August 4th 2009

Today I thought was going to be a bust for Western NE as storms died and the skys cleared. I stoped in a resturant trying to accept defeat in central panhandle of NE. I finally decided that i came that far not to see anything so I wanted to go drive through a storm that would be coming out of WY/SD into NE. So I drove north and intercepted the storm moving across the border of NE/SD. I ended up between harrison and crawford NE watching the storm to the northwest cross the border. As I was watching this incredible lightning and meso in the distance, a landspout formed on the southern edge of the convective activity. It lasted for about 60 seconds and then disapeared as quick as it came, but was a solid obvious landspout tornado what seemed so close to my eyes. I was able to go home really happy this day when I expected a 400 mile drive bust. I didnt get any hail as I had problems with my driver side window so I decided to wait to punch the hail core. I did punch the core with no hail on the way home. My vehicle reached 100,000 miles this trip, and its a 2006 model haha. Almost hit about 3 deer on the way home.