I missed out on much the video, as i was not chasing but rather reading your comments. What goes around comes around.. sometimes not soon enough but that kid will end up losing his life or taking others with him. Theres nothing we can do to stop the new chasers out there the ones who are in experienced, more of just going out to see what they can see or how close they can get. You see all the media on tornadoes and shows and people think its awesome and that they can just go out and do the same thing. Reguardless i hope someone captured his video, i would send it directly to law enforcement im sure they would have a good response to him. Jail Time, for dumbasses who deserve it!
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5/13/09 DISC: MO/IA/IL/KS/OK
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Travis Stone
EF0
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We were in Pleasanton, and decided to go south on 69 maybe a mile later the Helicopter flew overhead directly east bound. this is the same time that the warning started going off for Bourbon County. I left my notes in my buddies chase truck and will work on times if this helps. best guess at this time is the Redfield, Mound City storm.
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Anthony Petito
EF4
FYI... The Camaro guy can't delete all the videos: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3a4_1242319398&c=1
I didn't get to see the full video this morning before they were all pulled.
I didn't get to see the full video this morning before they were all pulled.
mikegeukes
EF5
Updated Storm Surveys from NWS Kansas City
http://kamala.cod.edu/offs/KEAX/0905150234.nous43.html
Mike
http://kamala.cod.edu/offs/KEAX/0905150234.nous43.html
Mike
mikegeukes
EF5
mikegeukes
EF5
John Farley
Supporter
Summary of all the NWS St. Louis damage surveys here:
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lsx/?n=05_13_2009
2 tornadoes in Knox Co., MO, tornado in Bismarck, MO, tornado and downburst in Gillespie, IL, and scattered straight-line wind damage in Lewis Co., IL
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lsx/?n=05_13_2009
2 tornadoes in Knox Co., MO, tornado in Bismarck, MO, tornado and downburst in Gillespie, IL, and scattered straight-line wind damage in Lewis Co., IL
Jim Saueressig
EF5
Topeka has the two in Coffey County accounted for.
NWS Topeka Summary
I found it interesting that Blair got a photo a few minutes before me I think was of this:
His looks much better with the 10mm attached.
NWS Topeka Summary
I found it interesting that Blair got a photo a few minutes before me I think was of this:
His looks much better with the 10mm attached.
jshields
is this someone trying to take credit for barts video?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWr1irxrLCk&feature=related
if you click on the right on more info to read the account of this video, it sounds like someone trying to say they were the one that recorded this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWr1irxrLCk&feature=related
if you click on the right on more info to read the account of this video, it sounds like someone trying to say they were the one that recorded this?
Bob Hartig
EF5
The YouTube poster's info section is so poorly written that it's hard to tell what he or she intended to communicate. That person may have intended to take credit for Bart's video, but they could also have just written a really screwy, confusing description that was a lot clearer in the writer's mind than it appears in print. In any case, Bart needs to be properly credited.
EDIT: Actually, probably doesn't matter since Bart's name is plainly visible at the bottom of the screen.
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Randall Cooper
EF2
For those that haven't seen pictures of the Kirksville tragedy, I went there and took pictures yesterday, and put a blog up at http://www.ichasewhatyouhidefrom.com/index.php?option=com_idoblog&view=idoblog&Itemid=57
Zac Flamig
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Documented two well defined lowerings just north of Norman and east of Moore on the night of the 13th.
The first lowering:
And then west of the first lowering, at 10:45 we had this second lowering:
The second lowering seems to coincide with the time that OUN placed a tornado on the ground near Lake Stanley Draper in their report.
The first lowering:
And then west of the first lowering, at 10:45 we had this second lowering:
The second lowering seems to coincide with the time that OUN placed a tornado on the ground near Lake Stanley Draper in their report.
Jon Davies
EF0
Kirksville MO tornado environment
I did a short case study on the Kirksville tornado setting at:
http://davieswx.blogspot.com/
It's really interesting how different the environment was across 50 miles going from Chillicothe to Kirksville across the retreating outflow boundary and area just east of the surface low.
Jon Davies
I did a short case study on the Kirksville tornado setting at:
http://davieswx.blogspot.com/
It's really interesting how different the environment was across 50 miles going from Chillicothe to Kirksville across the retreating outflow boundary and area just east of the surface low.
Jon Davies
Eric Flescher
EF5
thanks Jon for posting that
I was just wondering about this whole day , the set up and how this cell grew to be what it was / transpired and our encounter with it (see earlier in this thread). And now you have posted it Jon .
Thanks very much.
Meanwhile, if anyone has a video/photo or different vantage point of the Kirksville tornado , please PM me. I am creating a map and links to where people were that day and their location (and time).
from our vantage point slide show and account
Thanks
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I was just wondering about this whole day , the set up and how this cell grew to be what it was / transpired and our encounter with it (see earlier in this thread). And now you have posted it Jon .
Thanks very much.
Meanwhile, if anyone has a video/photo or different vantage point of the Kirksville tornado , please PM me. I am creating a map and links to where people were that day and their location (and time).
from our vantage point slide show and account
Thanks
::
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L Kimbrel
EF0
Gillespie wasn't the end of it...
I live about 35 miles north west of Litchfield, Il, and was still awake at midnight, watching the lightning and listening to the wind roar as the storms moved over my place. I jumped up several times to check the wind gauge, which was clocking 40-45mph with gusts over 50, and at exactly midnight, that wind shrieked and hit the house with an audible thud that shook the entire building. I've never heard anything NEAR to the sound it made, brought me right out of bed (my bedroom being on the southwest corner of the house) flying to the middle. My husband and his buddy were also up and jumping, we could hear things outside breaking and then the power went out. The entire event lasted maybe 5 or 10 seconds, and the wind dropped back to a tolerable roar again. Looking out the window by lightning flashes we could see debris all across the yard and on into the field to the east.
The next morning, we found a 6" steel downspout that was bolted to the house in 4 places lying in the front yard, along with soffitt and fascia from the back and side of the house, some of it carried over a mile and half away. 6" and 8" branches were torn off and carried into my cousin's field, a door on the lee side of the barn had been sucked open and stuff stored inside was sucked out into the yard, a casement window on the lee side of the house was sucked open--ripped from the latching hardware. The dumpster had been pushed 7 feet through thick gravel, shingles ripped from the garage in sheets, and my steel garden wagon had been tossed and crushed. I found the yellow handle to my grandkid's Little Tykes wagon but still haven't found the wagon. A 3'x20' sheet of corrugated steel roofing landed half a mile away in the field. That actually came in quite handy, since I could toss all the other crap that was blown into the field onto it and drag a lot of it back home in one trip.
A half mile north, my cousin's machine shed roof was ripped off and thrown into his evergreen windbreak, which fortunately kept it from slicing through his house just on the other side of the trees. And the top third of his 90' Harvestor silo looks like a giant fist smashed it in, never saw anything less than a tornado crumple one of those babies. Another half-mile and a little northwest, the neighbor's very sturdy barn had the top half ripped off and dragged across the road in two separate debris trails for half a mile through my dad's field. My sister and I were able to track damage from this wind nearly 20 miles from my place east-northeast to Pana, Il, where it was declared an EF1, I believe, by the Lincoln NWS. The damage path was very narrow, 50-75 yards at most, and pretty spotty since it tracked mostly across bare, still unplanted farmland. And it blew through fast -- me, my cousin and our neighbor, none of us made it much more than out of bed before it was already done and over.
I've been offline until just this evening, and busy cleaning up, but I hope tomorrow to have a chance to get with the STL office and see if all these damages were reported. The neighbor's barn is across the county line road in the Lincoln CWA, and I'm pretty sure they diidn't report anything. Until then nothing's official, but nonetheless I'm unofficially absolutely positive we were nailed by at least a smallish tornado-- knocked on the damn door and I STILL didn't get to actually see it.
I live about 35 miles north west of Litchfield, Il, and was still awake at midnight, watching the lightning and listening to the wind roar as the storms moved over my place. I jumped up several times to check the wind gauge, which was clocking 40-45mph with gusts over 50, and at exactly midnight, that wind shrieked and hit the house with an audible thud that shook the entire building. I've never heard anything NEAR to the sound it made, brought me right out of bed (my bedroom being on the southwest corner of the house) flying to the middle. My husband and his buddy were also up and jumping, we could hear things outside breaking and then the power went out. The entire event lasted maybe 5 or 10 seconds, and the wind dropped back to a tolerable roar again. Looking out the window by lightning flashes we could see debris all across the yard and on into the field to the east.
The next morning, we found a 6" steel downspout that was bolted to the house in 4 places lying in the front yard, along with soffitt and fascia from the back and side of the house, some of it carried over a mile and half away. 6" and 8" branches were torn off and carried into my cousin's field, a door on the lee side of the barn had been sucked open and stuff stored inside was sucked out into the yard, a casement window on the lee side of the house was sucked open--ripped from the latching hardware. The dumpster had been pushed 7 feet through thick gravel, shingles ripped from the garage in sheets, and my steel garden wagon had been tossed and crushed. I found the yellow handle to my grandkid's Little Tykes wagon but still haven't found the wagon. A 3'x20' sheet of corrugated steel roofing landed half a mile away in the field. That actually came in quite handy, since I could toss all the other crap that was blown into the field onto it and drag a lot of it back home in one trip.
A half mile north, my cousin's machine shed roof was ripped off and thrown into his evergreen windbreak, which fortunately kept it from slicing through his house just on the other side of the trees. And the top third of his 90' Harvestor silo looks like a giant fist smashed it in, never saw anything less than a tornado crumple one of those babies. Another half-mile and a little northwest, the neighbor's very sturdy barn had the top half ripped off and dragged across the road in two separate debris trails for half a mile through my dad's field. My sister and I were able to track damage from this wind nearly 20 miles from my place east-northeast to Pana, Il, where it was declared an EF1, I believe, by the Lincoln NWS. The damage path was very narrow, 50-75 yards at most, and pretty spotty since it tracked mostly across bare, still unplanted farmland. And it blew through fast -- me, my cousin and our neighbor, none of us made it much more than out of bed before it was already done and over.
I've been offline until just this evening, and busy cleaning up, but I hope tomorrow to have a chance to get with the STL office and see if all these damages were reported. The neighbor's barn is across the county line road in the Lincoln CWA, and I'm pretty sure they diidn't report anything. Until then nothing's official, but nonetheless I'm unofficially absolutely positive we were nailed by at least a smallish tornado-- knocked on the damn door and I STILL didn't get to actually see it.
