Saturday, July 24, 2010

Recap

Check back in a couple weeks, I will start recapping the season with more video and picks. I have found it hard to keep up the blog this year but some interesting footage will come soon.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Independence Day Chase


Flooding in Kimball


Video coming soon




I know its been a while since my last posting, I will post more of what happened in June soon. I was out of my computer for a while. Today was great with my chase in Wyoming and Nebraska. Had tornado warnings out all over the place, when I saw the RUC at 5am this morning I said woah today is going to be epic, and that wasnt far from the truth. With as many supercells and tornado warnings as there were. I saw a possible large tornado near Chugwater, WY earlier in the day. I say possible because the bluffs were in the way and I could only see the top of what seemed to be a stovepipe tornado. I chased the second cell accross Hwy 313 to 85 and ran into Verne Carlson. From there we watched for a bit until outflow killed it. Then went south to the cell that developed northeast of Cheyenne. Once we got really close verne and I outside the car caught a rapidly developing funnel, and then it touched down on the ground for a brief time. With Becca on my text chat on the comp, and her as coordinator and then operating radar, I was able to deliver fast and detailed reports which helped out with accurate warnings. After the breif tornado, decided to punch the big white reflectivity on radar to see what the hail would bring. I got golf ball hail, I imagine it was probably bigger just a bit earlier in the storm cycle.

My SPC Torn Report
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7 N BUSHNELL KIMBALL NE413310389 SPOTTER REPORTED TORNADO ON GROUND FOR ABOUT 30 SECONDS.