Matt Gingery
Well I think it goes without saying that this was my best season yet. Normally in the past several years I have chased a localized area of E Kansas, SW Missouri, NE Oklahoma. I began expanding this area in 2008, and 2009 was pretty sad until May 15 in Pampa, Tx. and the big Goshen Wyoming tornado. But 2010 really expanded. I did chase upslope in 2009, but this season brought new meaning to my group chasing the upslope. Many of the tornadoes I would have liked to count, I have not because I didn't feel they would meet the guidlines of an "actual score", unofficially I feel I witnessed well over 20 but I will limit it to the ones that are higher contrast and higher quality. In otherwords, I did not count the crapnadoes. I also think there should be two categories. Cyclic supercells are going to produce multiple tornadoes, such as the Kingfisher cell this year, and the Last Chance, Co. cell. I placed my scores in 2 different categories.
2010 Chase Stats:
6 successfull tornado intercept chases, dozens of other great ones
Myself and Ted Keller working with Artbeats shot the first ever high contrast tornadoes on a Cinema Red Camera in Last Chance, Colorado. That was the single best cyclic supercell I had chased to date, both structure wise and contrast.
April 22, 2010: (3) Goodnight,Tx. Closest ever to a tornado, and best ever footage to date**
April 29, 2010: (1)
*May 10, 2010: Perry Oklahoma (1)
May 19, 2010: (5)
June 6, 2010: (1)
June 7, 2010: (1)
June 10, 2010: (7)
18 total tornadoes in 2010, and I don't consider the season done until the fall season is complete.
The way that I prefer to count my tornado scores is per storm
Total Storm Producing Tornadoes: (6)
Total tornadoes produced by these 6 storms: 18
Largest Hail Encounter: 3" hail near Ft. Morgan, Co. 6-6-10
Strongest RFD: 80mph (est.) Scottsbluff, Ne. 6-7-10
Strongest Recorded Straight Line Wind: 74mph Ozark, Mo. 6-24-10
It was a wonderful season and I was able to chase with a few of you on this forum and that to me is priceless. I also made many other contacts via Stormtrack and hope to continue chasing with everyone for the 2011 season.
* Denotes a questionable score near Perry, Ok. with Extreme Chase Tours. I decided to give this score credit simply because the funnel we filmed had a ground circulation reported by another chaser that filmed it destroying a casino in that exact location. I didn't include it in my total of 18, but I do want to acknowledge that it will need more debate to clear up whether it is worthy.
2010 Chase Stats:
6 successfull tornado intercept chases, dozens of other great ones
Myself and Ted Keller working with Artbeats shot the first ever high contrast tornadoes on a Cinema Red Camera in Last Chance, Colorado. That was the single best cyclic supercell I had chased to date, both structure wise and contrast.
April 22, 2010: (3) Goodnight,Tx. Closest ever to a tornado, and best ever footage to date**
April 29, 2010: (1)
*May 10, 2010: Perry Oklahoma (1)
May 19, 2010: (5)
June 6, 2010: (1)
June 7, 2010: (1)
June 10, 2010: (7)
18 total tornadoes in 2010, and I don't consider the season done until the fall season is complete.
The way that I prefer to count my tornado scores is per storm
Total Storm Producing Tornadoes: (6)
Total tornadoes produced by these 6 storms: 18
Largest Hail Encounter: 3" hail near Ft. Morgan, Co. 6-6-10
Strongest RFD: 80mph (est.) Scottsbluff, Ne. 6-7-10
Strongest Recorded Straight Line Wind: 74mph Ozark, Mo. 6-24-10
It was a wonderful season and I was able to chase with a few of you on this forum and that to me is priceless. I also made many other contacts via Stormtrack and hope to continue chasing with everyone for the 2011 season.
* Denotes a questionable score near Perry, Ok. with Extreme Chase Tours. I decided to give this score credit simply because the funnel we filmed had a ground circulation reported by another chaser that filmed it destroying a casino in that exact location. I didn't include it in my total of 18, but I do want to acknowledge that it will need more debate to clear up whether it is worthy.
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