2014-07-27 REPORTS: KY/WV/OH/TN/VA

[Dan Robinson]

Just a quick post from the road, more images to follow afterI get home. I targeted the Lexington KY area, hoping for a second round of supercells along the Ohio river by late afternoon. Patience paid off, as cells finally fired to the north and tracked east-southeast. I witnessed the best structure of any storm I'd ever seen in this region, counting the 16 years I lived and chased in WV. The RFD on this storm was just pushing too hard and undercutting attempts at tornadogenesis, but the storm wrapped up a few times to the point I was sure I'd start seeing spinups on the ground. It could have happened during one of the many intervals I lost visual due to trees and hills. Here is the storm at Hill Top, Kentucky, which is northeast of Lexington.

 

[Skip Talbot]

Chased a tornado warned storm west of Columbus, Ohio near the town of Mechanicsburg noting some decent supercell structure, low level rotation, and spiraling RFD wrap around. Not a bad SDS fix for my first Ohio chase. Time lapsed shots summing the chase up in about 30 seconds:

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[Dan Robinson]

I completed my chase log, which has more images and video from this chase:

http://stormhighway.com/blog2014/july3014a.php

 

[James Gustina]

The sting finally went down enough to post about it. Moved out of Cincinnati around 11 and initially jogged north to Wilmington to make a decision. The cluttered mess in KY suckered us in and we went running south on US 62 to get across the river in front of a svr warned supercell in that first round of stuff. This was the closest we ever got while it was a county to the south:

It sped up and we got left in the dust before we even hit Flemnsburg so we stopped and reassessed at the DQ. We sat for close to three hours unable to go either north or south because we'd immediately lose whatever we went after and decided to call the chase early around 6:00. On the way back, noted storms going up west of Cincinnati and decided not to go after the one storm that Dan was on that eventually spun its way across N KY right by Fleminsburg. The curse continues for me.