William Monfredo
EF3
Cache, OK funnel w/ a car that slipped off road during fierce hailstorm
2013-04-17 REPORTS: TX, OK, KS, MO, IL
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Cache, OK funnel w/ a car that slipped off road during fierce hailstorm
Joshua Nall
EF4
I enjoyed the day after coming up empty the day before down near Abilene. I was right under the rapidly developing first storm of the day when it sent out a surge of air that spun up two dust whirls, one of which crossed the road a couple hundred yards ahead of me. This storm was too far behind the front to ever do anything I thought but I stayed with it for a while and took this picture of precepitation and "mountains".
I then got on the next storm and I believe this was the first storm through Lawton. I had powerflashes W of my Location and N of Lawton as I was on interstate but assumed it was outflow wind. On East of lawton this storm devoloped a nasty looking inflow feature appeared to be sucking up dirt out of the fields. No big deal though, hadn't seen anything yet that scared me.
I waited on the next storm just E of Lawton. This was the scary one with a big nasty meso, a boiling mess of clouds and scud reaching out ahead of it. At one point I saw a lot of dust that seemed to be generated from under the meso West of Sterling and assumed their might have been a tornado, but I never layed eyes on it. Let the storm get a bit too far north of me to see into the notch. This was most likely a tornado, but I wonder if sometimes these low mesos don't kick up a lot of dust and even cause damage due to ground level turbulence and small vortices. But then I guess it could be labeled a tornado. I've enjoyed the good natured debate and comments. Everyone wanted to see a good tornado and there weren't many to be found.
I then got on the next storm and I believe this was the first storm through Lawton. I had powerflashes W of my Location and N of Lawton as I was on interstate but assumed it was outflow wind. On East of lawton this storm devoloped a nasty looking inflow feature appeared to be sucking up dirt out of the fields. No big deal though, hadn't seen anything yet that scared me.
I waited on the next storm just E of Lawton. This was the scary one with a big nasty meso, a boiling mess of clouds and scud reaching out ahead of it. At one point I saw a lot of dust that seemed to be generated from under the meso West of Sterling and assumed their might have been a tornado, but I never layed eyes on it. Let the storm get a bit too far north of me to see into the notch. This was most likely a tornado, but I wonder if sometimes these low mesos don't kick up a lot of dust and even cause damage due to ground level turbulence and small vortices. But then I guess it could be labeled a tornado. I've enjoyed the good natured debate and comments. Everyone wanted to see a good tornado and there weren't many to be found.
Nick Slone
Enthusiast
I started off around the Edwardsville, IL area, then drifted N as the day went on, eventually meeting up with a Tor warned cell near Mt. Sterling around 8p CST. Witnessed multiple power flashes coming from my NW as I approached the city. Had either a VERY low hanging scud or possible funnel drift across the road in front of us, stopped for about 45 secs to a min to reconfirm position and radar, then continued N again to see a rotating wall cloud and large white cone funnel illuminated by a factory's parking lot lights. We let the storm get away because I didn't want to lose a windshield to the oncoming hail. After that, we drove to Ft. Wayne to set up for our PDS bust in S Indiana the next day.
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unedited video. Encounter starts about 3:20. LOTS of swearing, I don't really care about what's on the audio of my dash cam because I usually just speed it up anyways, but I had someone with me who thought it would be a good idea to try and get out and go relieve himself with the storm bearing down on us. I got a good laugh out of it, but that's his last chase with me. Liability factor is just too high with him.
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unedited video. Encounter starts about 3:20. LOTS of swearing, I don't really care about what's on the audio of my dash cam because I usually just speed it up anyways, but I had someone with me who thought it would be a good idea to try and get out and go relieve himself with the storm bearing down on us. I got a good laugh out of it, but that's his last chase with me. Liability factor is just too high with him.
Skip Talbot
EF5
Full write up, annotated map, stats, video, with photography courtesy Jennifer Brindley Ubl:
http://skip.cc/chase/130417/
Time lapsed chase, set to music by Kevin MacLeod:
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http://skip.cc/chase/130417/
Time lapsed chase, set to music by Kevin MacLeod:
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James Gustina
Supporter
Had to redo my images a bit because the files I originally posted got corrupted on the hosting site. Thank god I had them backed up.
Day fell a bit short of what I was hoping because the group I was with was taking things extremely conservatively, but I still got some dang good photos.
I had to contrast enhance the crap out of that last one. We were sitting south of Lawton on SW 82nd Street watching the supercell move over and I'm pretty sure we caught the start of the tornado because there were power flashes about 1-2 minutes after that was taken.
Day fell a bit short of what I was hoping because the group I was with was taking things extremely conservatively, but I still got some dang good photos.
I had to contrast enhance the crap out of that last one. We were sitting south of Lawton on SW 82nd Street watching the supercell move over and I'm pretty sure we caught the start of the tornado because there were power flashes about 1-2 minutes after that was taken.
