My report will come later once video is done
Friday, May 30, 2008
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Reports for May 23rd
Waking up to a GVTH to start the day is so pleasing to an ear....the thunder was awesome and the smell of rain is soothing....We doodled around than went to Oberlin where we chilled in the rain until intiaition began out of Oakley....this was the first storm we decided to punch to pass the time....inside revealed a quick meso with hail the size of quarter to inhailer sized...lol! than we headed south to get east of a cell that became severe and had better potential to be tornado warned...sure enough as we got on I70 heading east to punch to get in the southeast quadrant of the storm there was a tornado on the ground....it was just rain so this was good news so I got through no problem....wrapping around we positioned ourselves in front of the tornado's path....in the back of my mind I was already thinking of everybody else leaving at the last minute...I was thinkin of every possible scenario....I couldn't help but be fascinated by the intensity and size of the tornado as it approached closer and closer....it was at this point I knew I may have been the dumbest chaser out there! I was not a meteorologist in the moment....I had no purpose being where I was but just to get the suspense of the video and pics....I look back on this and realize if I was doing a bit of research or had a purpose in being in the path of the tornado than no regrets....but there are regrets....looking back at the video I can't help but realize God lifted that monster into the sky within seconds of it coming towards us.....than respawning over I70 on the north side redeveloping into a wedge which me nor Shep saw....we only saw a beginning staged tornado with multiple funnels wrapping around this thing...after this I turned around where every chaser went north...there was freakin suicide traffic...I said screw that....on I70 we headed further east and stopped to look back to see some intense Tsunami Shear....moving in waves through convection and evaporation.....beautiful for sure! This pretty much ended the chase due to radar quitting on the laptop....we headed back early before the severe storms in the night got dangerous with multiple wedges....at the edge edge of the storm near Colby...we saw a roll cloud that went for miles...it was cool!
Report for May 22nd
An epic day for both Colorado/KansasTo start the day early a wedge tornado swept through Windsor around 11:30AM causing F3 damage.....driving outside of Fort Morgan out of reach to this historical event....I was angry....sad...concerned....all emotions at this point driving east to Kansas....today I learned not to be a chaser but to be a meteorologist....all the conditions were perfect, but it was cloudy in Greeley when we left around 10 in the morning which left me dumbfounded....the only thing was to keep going and go with what I forecasted in Kansas a week out not a wedge in Colorado though.....I knew there would be tornadoes in CO but not a wedge....matter of fact I figured they would develop closer to Fort Morgan area...but the front range got the attention....In Kansas later that day around 2 pm near Oakley popped the first severe warned storm....this was punched to get in front....this is where we ran into Chris Yates and Kristi Deibel! We headed north running parallel to the wall cloud with the greatest potential to drop a nader.....near Hoxie we watched the wall cloud move into higher dewpoints allowing the lowering to finally enhance tilting for multiple vorticies. Multiple vorticies wrapped each other for 7-10 minutes till finally a tornado developed and connected....this is where we watched from a distance the tornado moving south to north crossing 24 damaging power poles and letting cows free....after this storm Chris & Kristi headed home as me & Shep went to catch a storm for hail....the coloring of this storm was spectacular with the light glowing and reflecting the green color....again this storm moved NNE....after this we waited in this small town letting the core pass over with heavy winds and rain....it was nice! Than we drove to Norton, KS...not really thinking of the nxt day...but more just sleep...it was a long day due to the CO incident lingering in the back of my mind for sure....bittersweet.....my prayers for the rebuilding of the community of Windsor and Kansas towns impacted by today....
Thursday, May 22, 2008
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