Silver Lining Tours Day 5

Its been a long week and a lot of driving but so far we have had one late evening in particular that was an amazing chase. I am a guide driver for Roger Hill on his Tour Company Silver Lining Tours, and Tuesday night we were in NM. We were really pushing all day for cumulus to push off of the higher terrain and get east into really favorable environment. We watched little cu fields turn into a massive cell later. At sunset it was a huge mothership, and it actually back lit the structure with amazing color. Something I have rarely seen is outer bands around this Meso with space between them, so it made like rings of Saturn around this storm LOL. The past few days its really been difficult to get storms going any early in the day at all, its tested a lot of our patience and boredom lol. Tuesday made this week of lots of driving a lot less painful with its amazing structure. Roger Hill was excited like he always is, just stunned at what the cell turned into. I have video of him saying wow probably 50 times. After dark this cell intensified even more, tiled even more, and structured even more. There were probably 6 Plates Tilted up to the Anvil on this storm and the lightning was insane. We drove through a town close by the hail core and found that up to Baseball fell on this little town in NM. This is my first time working with a tour company but I kinda like it, the people on the tour are smarter than one would think about weather, a lot of them have been chasing a few times on tours, and they are all enthusiastic and none of them are crazy this week lol. I am also producing a short film of this week, although not one of Roger's best weeks it may still be interesting. Its difficult to run multiple cameras, audio gear, and also drive all day. Possible chase today in Kansas, upper level flow sucks, blehhh. And one more chase tomorrow before I return home and then go back out for a few days for another secret project I have goin on.

Next week looks possibly interesting in CO for a few days with a trough coming in if it continues to show that.

April 14th 2012

Its the beginning of a long day



High Risk today for tornadoes, first of all everyone be safe out there.

I am currently hanging out in the North Platte area waiting to pick a target for today. Its foggy out here, so there is a lot of moisture to tap into. I got to admit I am a little nervous today. Especially since I am chasing alone.

3-18-12 Update

Got to Sublette, KS and waiting under a nice cu field, I am now streaming on severe studios. Just waiting for storms to fire.

LIVE FEED

3-18-2012

On the road solo today on the way to SW Kansas, prob the Liberal area. I will streaming live today on Imap because I had problems with my Severe Studios setup. Will try to update on FB as I chase.

Feb 28th 2012 - Nebraska Tornado History

Storm Chasers Scott Hammel, Eric Treece, and Mike Umscheid got a unique Tornado on Tuesday. This tornado was the first recorded Tornado in February in Nebraska History. The forecasting done by these guys was done very well, there were many strong cells just to the southeast of their position, but they rejected any storm ADD and stuck to their target, as weaker development happened at their position. A brief tornado developed on their cell, but it was still a nice condensed funnel. Eric Treece has some great video of it and Mike got some good pictures.

Here is Eric Treece interview on 9news about this event http://www.9news.com/video/1481599425001/1/Caught-on-tape-Colo-storm-chaser-captures-tornado-history

Here is the link to Mike Umscheid's pics http://www.mikeumscheidphotography.com/gallery.php