3/23/09 REPORTS: KS, OK, NE, SD

[Mark Farnik]

Full chase account here:

http://ragingskies.blogspot.com/2009/03/3232009-chase-log.html

To make it short and sweet - myself and Andrew Stoller went on a 21 hour, 1,170 mile marathon chase, and scored with a brief rope tornado near Winfield, KS on the Cowley County storm. My report has the full blow by blow account of the chase.

 

[jshields]

i've put a couple of not too exciting videos from my chase on monday full chase report is up on my blog.

http://omahatornadochaser.blogspot.com

tornado warned cell as it was moving thru omaha:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JuCHy0PW54


video from a couple of severe cells in east central nebraska:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5xPA6_QfIQ

 

[Randy Denzer]

Chased with Reed Timmer, Joel and Chris, Aaron Dooley, Erik Burns, and many others. Provided live stream for tornadovideos.net. You can see our chase report there.
This screen shot was captured as we crossed CR 10 on Hwy 166. I sat the cam down to call this touchdown into the 911 center, it lifted by the time I was off the phone.

 

[Brendon Lindsey]

Well the chase didnt turn out too great. Picked up the new trailblazer in NM the day before, and slept in amarillo. Woke up the next day and headed home towards enid. Was intending on hanging out for atleast an hour. but storms had already fired. Ended up on the Tornado warned storm that was on the KSOK border. These pictures are of it from its beginning stage. Then the lightning pictures over keystone lake.

The rest are posted here on my site. : www.stormaddiction.com

 

[Dan Melby]

I am actually going to try to keep up with my blog this year, a short account is up with a few photos and video grabs from the Eagle Nebraska Storm.
Thought that I would have a good video to document this storm. I let my girlfriend run the video camera assuming she had ran a camera before..
The vid grabs at the bottom are what i could see from my vantage point of the storm as it approached Eagle.
http://corepunch-com.blogspot.com/

 

[Dann Cianca]

Chased with Michael Carlson and Kendell LaRoche. Our target verified of Medicine Lodge verified and we briefly chased the storm that went north of Wichita. Then we dropped south into Oklahoma and intercepted and followed the "storm of the day" that everyone saw the spin-ups with. Tremendous wall cloud with this storm! We stopped following it after Arkansas City and intercepted two more storms in Oklahoma before calling it a day. But enough of my rambling ...

TONS of pictures and VIDEO:

http://blog.bigskyconvection.com/2009/04/2009-storm-chase-iv-brief-march-23rd.html

 

[Lanny Dean]

I know this post is a little late but I just got around to going through all the photos and video from this chase. I took well over 100 pics and since there has been quite a bit of drama surrounding this event in regards to a photoshoped picture of a tornado or tornadoes, I felt compelled to post these pics and my accounts.

I left Tulsa/Mannford with my sister (first un-official tour) about 1:30pm and headed west on 51 HWY to I-35. My target area was Ponca City where I felt the best CAPE values were and where the best helecity values bucked right up to strongest CAPE per the latest RUC data we had. Going North on I-35 we started seeing some pretty good CU's going up and I decided to play these if any of them went severe.
After firing up StormLab, we could see that a lone cell had gone up west of 35 and although not yet severe warned, it looked good on radar. We intercepted the cell on HWY 15 and HWY 74 near Hunter looking west southwest (this is where the first pic in the series was taken from.) Here we noticed a classic jagged rotating wall cloud with a clear slot just to the west southwest of us. This is also somewhere near when the storm went severe. After racing north on 74 HWY to HWY 60, we went west on HWY 60 towards Pond Creek where we stopped to film as the storm crossed HWY 60. It was at this point that we filmed our first funnel. (second pic in the series) I measured 51 MPH inflow for 2 minutes and 30mph sustained at this point and per the picture you can see massive dust inflow to the cell.
Racing back east on HWY 60 back, we went north on HWY 74 and finally stopped just south of Deer Creek/Medford area. At this location we noticed another quick brief funnel but were not able to film it as it happened to quick. After leaving the cell to move east we took HWY 11 back to I-35 and went north to the Braman exit (got a nice pic of the vault at this location with a very small funnel as it was crossing 35) where we went east on E0060 county dirt road to HWY 77 north towards Ark City. Since there is/was quite a bit of drama involved with this storm and someone who had a "picture" of a full condensation funnel while the storm was still in OK, I want to make it perfectly clear that, at no time did we witness a tornado of any kind while the storm was in OK and I was basically right up under the storm through it's life cycle while in OK. Although I was not streaming live via ChaserTV, I was using Spotter Network the entire time I was in OK and I believe Jeff Smith was following me via Spotter Network. BTW, thanks to Jeff for helping me after I lost data right at the state line!
We intercepted the storm again just as we were coming into Ark City....here is where I believe I saw a possible multi vortex tornado looking back northwest of Ark City. I can not tell for sure even on video as we were still a few miles away from the main area of interest. I believe Shane Adams was near this location and may have seen the same thing although I am not exactly sure. The third picture is the flanking line of the cell as we were looking back northeast.
After getting gas in Ark City we headed back south and saw the Stillwater cell (4th pic) and the last pic is the sun setting with a few CU's still visable right on the dryline.

All in all it was a great chase day, except for the bogus tornado reports in OK and photoshoped pictures.