Tony Laubach
EF5
Complete May 3, 2007 Storm Chase Log
An afternoon jog into northeastern Colorado made for an easy, local setup and a good run before the big weekend in Kansas. The chase started grim as I sat in Platteville watching cu go up and flounder out. Ed Grubb joined me and we finally booked north towards Briggsdale after a tornado-warned cell went off on a line of eastwaard moving storms. We arrived to gustnado city as spin-up after spin-up ripped through the fields. One of the gustnadoes had a rotating lowering above the swirl, so we figured it made enough of a case to call it a tornado. Other spin-ups were certainly questionable and not as obvious, thus they were not counted. SPC reported 7 tornadoes; we'll only confirm one as a weak tornado. To clear up a matter, I called the NWS in Boulder to report the spin-ups, calling them simply dust swirls at the leading edge of the line; dubbing them gustnadoes later in my report. Not long after that, an update to the tornado warning included multiple tornado sightings. I did not report tornadoes on that call; just dust swirls/gustnadoes.
Complete May 3, 2007 Storm Chase Log
Complete May 3, 2007 Storm Chase Log
An afternoon jog into northeastern Colorado made for an easy, local setup and a good run before the big weekend in Kansas. The chase started grim as I sat in Platteville watching cu go up and flounder out. Ed Grubb joined me and we finally booked north towards Briggsdale after a tornado-warned cell went off on a line of eastwaard moving storms. We arrived to gustnado city as spin-up after spin-up ripped through the fields. One of the gustnadoes had a rotating lowering above the swirl, so we figured it made enough of a case to call it a tornado. Other spin-ups were certainly questionable and not as obvious, thus they were not counted. SPC reported 7 tornadoes; we'll only confirm one as a weak tornado. To clear up a matter, I called the NWS in Boulder to report the spin-ups, calling them simply dust swirls at the leading edge of the line; dubbing them gustnadoes later in my report. Not long after that, an update to the tornado warning included multiple tornado sightings. I did not report tornadoes on that call; just dust swirls/gustnadoes.
Complete May 3, 2007 Storm Chase Log
Complete May 3, 2007 Storm Chase Log
