Finally

Yey, some severe weather finally once again!

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.

July 20th 2009- NE/KS Supercell/Tornado

Today I left Cheyenne east on 80 to chase storms out near kimball, NE. By the time I got there the target storm had died but there was a couple more storms that exploded, these looked isolated and very robust. I continued to chase the southern cell that was headed from southwest nebraksa to northwest Kansas. I chased this storm over some great distance, when it got into Cheyenne County Kansas, that is when it went crazy. Softball hail was reported and then when I caught up to the storm it had mad wind shear and a rotating wall cloud. I stayed in front of it as it moved Southward through Cheyenne County, When I went south on 21 to St Francis I noticed it started to get rain wraped. When the road curved back east I got a bad feeling, especially the way the wind was blowing and the way the rain curtains were moving. I decided to not drive through the cell to get to the south in position. It was too dangerous, and I also didnt let a few other drivers go through yet as well. After this area passed 21 to the south I rushed east then south to Highway 36. Once I got there I turned west to get back to 385 because I didnt want to drive through the hail core to get to goodland. When I got about a mile west, the storm caught up to me, I pulled over because the wind was getting too strong and turned it into the wind. All of a suddon and explosion of wind made the previous wind speed a joke blew out my plexi window, riped my hail guard off the henges, and then fliped a semi truck just down the road from me. I went down the road to check on the truck driver, I said "man are you ok? because you just drove through a tornado" he said "no I didnt, because I didn't make it" lol. Anyway this storm had amazing structure for July, it blew me away. After seeing the radar, most people can say thats one of the best hooks seen in July.

July 17 2009 CO/NE Hail Chase