2007-03-28 REPORTS:TX/OK/KS/NE/CO/SD

[Mike Hollingshead]

Full chase account HERE, along with a link to youTube clip.

All the images are up on the above link. There's also a 6 minute clip on youTube of the Grant NE wedge at night, linked on the bottom of the page.

Power flash lights up tornado.

Another video grab as it passes west of Grant and just transistioned in to this beast.

Looking west at it as I now drive north towards Ogallala.

 

[Earl Faubion]

Here's a vid cap of the second McLean, TX tornado backlit by lightning at 8:50 PM. It was north of I-40 at the time and was taken from I-40 and FM453 a few miles to the east.

 

[Amos Magliocco]

McLean "west" tornado about 8:14 PM shot from about 5 miles south of McLean on SR 273:

Earlier in the day, the long-lived tornado between Silverton and Brice at about 6:54 PM:

My full slate of vidcaps here.

Eric Nguyen and I chased this event and witnessed around six tornadoes between Silverton and McLean, from 6:29 PM until we broke off the nighttime stovepipe about 8:25 PM.

I was excited about this chase a few days in advance because it seems like a long time since we've seen a vigorous dryline circulation mix into extreme instability. Feels like we've been plagued with pre-frontal surface troughs and veering winds ahead of the lift creating weak convergence. Not so Wednesday.

We began in Claude, bored enough to chase that first "sucker" storm well east of the dryline, but turned around in time to follow SR 70 southbound on the "tour of tornadoes". We were lucky to find good vantage points at the right time.

Like others that night, we found ourselves in a precarious spot while northbound on 273 as a new tornado devloped beneath a meso immediately east of the road. Momentarily we mistook strong RFD into this developing tornado for the stovepipe's circulation.

 

[Mark Farnik]

After checking around, I think I might have been the ONLY person who has video of the Benkelman, NE tornado.
There was a college guy and girl from Grand Island who were on the storm as well (nice kids, can't remember their names) but they had no still or video camera with them. After watching the video, I realize just how badly I need a new camcorder... I shot the video with a seven year old Panasonic Palmcorder VHS-C. The video itself is pretty decent quality, but getting any somewhat decent stills is going to be difficult... grrrr.

Just noticed that this is my 300th post... break out the champagne and fireworks! Well, I'd settle for some ginger ale and confetti...

 

[Jeff Snyder]

As a reminder, only first-hand chaser reports can be placed in REPORTS thread (such as this). If you have comments or questions, please either use the relevant DISC thread or send a PM to the person to whom you are addressing the question/comment. Gracias!

 

[George Flickinger]

I just put a video clip together of the Brice/Caprock Canyon tornado complete with cow nat sound! Below is the best digital cam pic:

video: http://www.flickingerweather.com/032807/032807_brice.mov

 

[Gerard Jebaily]

I have a few night images captured from video of the tornado (possibly tornadoes). The first was taken about 5 miles south of mclean, tx. The second image was about 3 miles south of Mclean, tx. And the third was taken just east of Mclean at mile marker 143 at precisely 8:30 pm. The nearbyTexas Mesonet station was hit a few minutes later which i was able to find about where the tornado crossed the road relative to me. I calculated that I was .9 miles west of the tornado. Im having issues getting the gif to work correctly. Video coming soon...

 

[Jason A.C. Brock]

3/28/07 chase report

Full chase report along with photos and video links can be found here.
http://www.texhomastormchasers.com/32807.html

Also check out our youtube site for more video of the tornado as seen from Chitaque Turkey Caprock Canyons and Brice Texas areas. We also have other storm vidoes from March posted as well.

It was a pleasure to chase with the holytornado.com guys (Jeremy Wilson and wife) and also thanks to AMA for their radar images of the event. I always like to go back and check what the radar was looking like while out on the chase besides looking at Mobile Threat Net XM radar.

Also congrats to Jeremys wife for her first tornadoes! Wow what a first set of tornadoes to have!

 

[Jeff Snyder]

I've finally been able to process and upload all some pictures and video stills taken on 3-28-07... See http://www.tornadocentral.com/chasing/2007/03282007.php for the pictures and stills. One of my faves:

 

[Brett Roberts]

I finally got around to writing a chase report and uploading processed versions of my photos from 3/28. I wasn't in the right spot to get the jaw-dropping close-up shots of the Brice tornado quite a few of you have, but still like the way some of them came out thanks to my telephoto lens.

This was my second tornado day and both times I was in the backlit position. I think the contrast makes for some great photos, but at the same time I'd love to get on the southwest side on my next intercept. I still can't get over the great detail and coloration in the photos and video posted here from those who followed the tornado from the south.

Two supercells to the west and southwest from TX-70 north of Brice:

Cone a few minutes after touching down:

Nice inflow:

Stovepipe:

Structure shot:

Chase account and full set of pics: http://www.skyinmotion.com/chase/chase.php?id=15

 

[Bill Tabor]

Short summary: Left a bit late 1pm for the Tx Panhandle but still had time to join in on the chaser
fun time. After getting stuck in the mud, I originally began seeing tornadoes from near Turkey, Tx.
Got in at the end of the Sheriff road block / controversy and exited east toward new development.
Stuck behind chaser convergence lines and at times blinding light bars near / at night I witnessed
additional tornadoes. Near McLean. Had difficulty shooting video and stills in dark and while zig
zagging down the road as I chased alone, so I need to work on some options / techniques there. A fun
chase, and I still need to review whatever video I got from this event. Congratulations to everyone
out that day even if you were in my way ;-) LOL! Following is the traditional detailed account which
is also linked off my website.
*************************************************

Here is a link to the detailed chase account:
http://www.tornadoxtreme.com/Chases_By_Year/2007_Chases/March_28_07/32807_Account/32807_account.html

Website Pictures and descriptions here:
http://www.tornadoxtreme.com/Chases_By_Year/2007_Chases/March_28_07/march_28_07.html

Here's one picture of a nearby tornado at night near McLean. Check the website link above for more pictures.

 

[Justin Walker]

Like many others, I just got around to fully updating my March 28 page of the Grant, NE tornadoes.

To see my full chase account, Click here.

 

[Billy Griffin]

Ditto... just got around to uploading the few photos of the Holly, CO tornado damage. Didn't have my digital with me, so had to just use the point-n-shoot film camera, so had to wait for film processing. Anyway, here are a few from the night of the Holly, CO tornado:

No pictures of the storm, as I was too late in getting there. We had to backtrack all the way back to Limon, just to find a place to stay for the night.
Law enforcement had most of the town closed off, and I respected that, so just snapped a few shots on the south side of the highway.
Power was out, so the photos are quite blurry. Sad there was a fatality in that town.

 

[Patrick Romans]

Okay, finally able to post on here so here goes. I and my two chase partners made the trip to around Dodge City and managed to get on the storm that produced the wedge northwest of Dodge. Was a very active night of chasing and we managed to get a few night time shots of that cell. The files are too large to post here so I have them here

 

[Eric_Sipes]

Gene Thieszen, Walt Gish, and I left Cordell around 1p.m. for Childress, TX. After a data update we set our target area for Quitique, TX. We sat there and waited for things to develope then headed out toward Lone Star where we caught our first tornado. We followed the first storm up toward Silverton where we ran out of road options and were forced to take the southern storm near the Caprock Canyon. All in all we recorded 12 tornadoes!!!










Visit my myspace page @ www.myspace.com/e_sipes