SPC went MOD! yey!

Looking to be a great day, the surface winds really picked up out of the south, the low level moisture made me smile all morning and especially since the early convection and moisture cleared out for this afternoons event. With the surface winds picking up its going to be a great chase day!!! Also seeing the models real early this morning of the Cape going up to extreme levels, we are going to have one hail of a day!! SPC went to Moderate with a 10% tornado risk, I called it out hours before.

Chase Day South Central/East KS

We are chilling in Salina KS going to chase today on this slight 5% tornado risk. I will be chasing with my brother. Now casters are Skinner and Becca. Going to keep an eye on the boundaries, there is significant cape, good moisture return, but well have to see if the surface winds back a little bit. Its foggy right now but not too cloudy so thats a good sign.

Discovery Disclosure

Unfortunately because of Disclosure agreements with Discovery I am unable to share pics and video of my experiences until a later date, after the show. You will get to see them later in the fall!

May 12th 2009

Becca and I chased some cells in Nebraska after I landed in Denver that morning, we chased a super cell that produced a tornado, unfortunately the hills and poor road network made it hard to get a visual. We saw the funnel cloud 20 min before the reported touch down. Beautiful storms though, awesome chase day.

Lucky number Seven May 10th 09

Picture this scene, we take 2 trucks and the tiv to an off road heavy forrested area with red mud dirt trails. Both trucks are outfitted to carry Imax cameras to film the Tiv off roading. We take this trail doing some shots of the tiv, and then we have to switch a mag under a tarp, 6 of us holding up the tarp in the middle of the woods and rain, watching Sean Casey change out film in the cameras mag. Sean states this is a lot of pressure, and is loading in the largest format of film availabe in the world more than anything digital. I consider myself to be lucky number seven out of everyone on the planet to be in situations like that on this team. Everyone I work with is awesome, very knowledgable, and I respect them. I wouldnt want to be anywhere else then where I was today. A sweet show, and an amazing film that Sean is doing, as well as cooperating with the largest research project on torandoes in history. What did you do today?

May 7th 2009

Today we worked on a lot of vehicle stuff. We wired the air compressor, added a latch to our back window, we bolted some compartments up on the roof, added some more stuff for the Imax camera in the back. I got lost on the way back from home depot in Golfball. Vortex 2 and Josh showed up at our hotel today, so there was a lot of filming even though theres no storm chasing today. Sean told me I did more work than some people by just getting beer and putting ice on it lol. Tomorrow I think we are going to chase around South Central Oklahoma well see. Our crew is pretty much ready to start some Imax filming now in our beautiful V8 Red Tundra. Tiv 2 just got a lot of wiring done for its sensors. Once all teams are together 130 people and 50 vehicles are going to create chaos...imagine that many vehicles and people going to gas stations, going to the bathroom, or even driving down the highway.ahhh! Time to get some sleep, sean has to have the light on so he doesnt have nighmares of getting stuck under the TIV and im sharing a room with him haha. Night yall!

One crazy day, and I dont mean tornadoes...sucks

We chased all over oklahoma today, started out in Leedey then Woodward then we chased over western parts of Oklahoma