05/29/04 REPORTS: KS, NE, MO, OK & Northern Plains

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Here are a few slides I just picked up from the lab:

Calumet, OK anticyclonic tornado, 5/29/04:
http://wvlightning.com/2004/calumet1.jpg

Hadar, NE tornado, 5/21/04:
http://wvlightning.com/2004/hadarne1.jpg

Mammatus north of Alma, NE, 5/22/04
http://wvlightning.com/2004/alma1.jpg

Flanking line in Franklin, NE, 5/22/04:
http://wvlightning.com/2004/franklinne1.jpg

Lightning in Norfolk, NE, 5/21/04:
http://wvlightning.com/2004/norfolkne1.jpg
http://wvlightning.com/2004/norfolkne2.jpg
http://wvlightning.com/2004/norfolkne3.jpg

Lightning east of Emporia, KS, 5/24/04:
http://wvlightning.com/2004/emporia1.jpg

Tons of work to catch up on, afterwards I will put together detailed logs for all of the May chases.
 
I have been trying out my Windows movie maker skills - here is the footage from the Harper stovepipe tornado - I must warn of some bad language towards the middle of the clip - the moment over took us all

Close up of Tornado funnel on the ground - 4.6MB
http://www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/stu/200405...0529_harper.wmv

Full movie - High quality - 86mb
http://www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/stu/200405...529_tornado.wmv

Full Movie - Med Quality - 18mb
http://www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/stu/20040529_small.wmv

Full Movie - Low Quality - 2.6mb
http://www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/stu/200405..._very_small.wmv

Alister's Dash Cam clip - one tornado and two chasers! - 3.5mb

http://www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/stu/dashcam.wmv
 
A few more shots from the Harper tornado now added to my website.

I will upload full trip report upon return to UK in a few days.
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Amazing shots, superb!

And here's my chase report for this wonderful day:

Still a few thousand kilometers away, without a US visa, looking at the completely sunny skies of the Israeli summer.
Knowing I could have been there!
:sad2: :sad3:
 
Thanks David,

It's taken me a while to put this together but something I wanted to do in view of how much this tornado capture means to me. To witness such an event is a privilege in itself, however, for myself and fellow Brit chasers Stu Robinson & Alistair Chapman to forecast the event, position ourselves to watch it develop in front of our eyes and then give chase till it died & capture the entire event on camera/video was truly some experience, probably never to be repeated again. It was a particularly beautiful tornado and at times surreal. At times it could easily have been footage taken from Twister.

To set the record here is a montage I have put together which documents the entire tornado from its birth through the funnel stage to its mature tornado stage and finally its roped out deterioration. I have included the exact time from each photo in the bottom right corner. Of particular note are how the funnel took shape and then looked like weakening (1922-1923hrs) and how the tornado at one stage looked like it was weakening too (1928-1929hrs), but then intensified again.

For the record first funnel sighted 1920 hrs.
Tornado touchdown 1925hrs.
Tornado dissipation (rope stage) 1945 hrs.
Tornado on ground for exactly 20 minutes.

Mark

http://www.mhweather.co.uk/mhwphp/images/T...f%20tornado.jpg
 
Great pic Stu!

Stu, Mark & Alistair,

What a day that was! Hope you guys had as much fun as we did. I love that picture Stu...if I am not mistaken that is the outback that I was driving that day just ahead of you in the photo. I can't remember if you guys were directly behind us on that muddy trail (at that time) or not...anyway, it kind of looks like the outback. I would post some shots of our video, but I think it's pretty much the exact same thing that you got. The only difference is the Harper county deputy that was in front of me (who was having a lot of problems staying on the road).

So here is a group photo instead:
[Broken External Image]:http://www.tulsapromo.com/harper1.gif

Man that cell did some wonderful things! And to think you guys wanted to call it off to go chase that Enid storm. :eek: You wouldn't have had near as much fun!

Here is one shot from our video, this wasn't zoomed in either. Like I stated before, it's pretty much the same thing.

[Broken External Image]:http://www.tulsapromo.com/052904_debris_close_harper.gif

I also want to throw out credit to David Thompson for shooting the video from our car. And Liana Sain for providing such great NAT sound on the video. This was a first tornado for both of them (what a great opportunity!). It sounds like Liana gave you some good sound bites as well. And of course the other car in the caravan was Dr. Rick Toracinta, Jamie and a few met students from Ohio State. It took a team to put us within a few hundred yards of this hose dropping (and it nearly dropped right on top of us). I hope we can all do it again, and again....

Later,
Brian Barnes

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Will chase for food!
 
Me and My Tornado

Nice! Next time I'll get a shot of me standing on my head! :lol:

Actually there are other shots of me on "the road" with the tornado...however Dave has them all in California and I am awaiting my CD from him. I saw them briefly, there are some pretty funny ones. I'll post one when I get the disc.

Brian Barnes

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Will chase for food!
 
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