Dave Gore
There were several tornado warned storms that developed in northern Ohio, up along the Lake Erie close to Sandusky. As this activity pushed east, new thunderstorms started developing in west central Ohio. I decided to head north in Union county to intercept the strongest of these storms, which were all low topped.
A couple miles west of the town of Richwood, it really started getting it's act together and produced a wallcloud. After a couple minutes of weak rotation, a funnel dropped and persisted for a while. This cycle happened a couple other times through out the chase. I decided to stop chasing this storm at the Delaware/Marion county line, but that was a mistake....
About 12 miles east of this location, the storm produced a possible weak tornado in Marengo, which is in Morrow county.
Storm report:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/100511_rpts.html
Overall, this storm produced supercell characteristics, and had really good structure to it. Very enjoyable chase through the good terrain of north central Ohio.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ5ZvHectAI
A couple miles west of the town of Richwood, it really started getting it's act together and produced a wallcloud. After a couple minutes of weak rotation, a funnel dropped and persisted for a while. This cycle happened a couple other times through out the chase. I decided to stop chasing this storm at the Delaware/Marion county line, but that was a mistake....
About 12 miles east of this location, the storm produced a possible weak tornado in Marengo, which is in Morrow county.
Storm report:
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/100511_rpts.html
Overall, this storm produced supercell characteristics, and had really good structure to it. Very enjoyable chase through the good terrain of north central Ohio.
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ5ZvHectAI
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