5/24/08 NOW: SD/NE/IA/KS/OK

[Andrew Francis]

Two tornados on the grtound NW of Orlando still. Elephant trunking.


I can't believe the way this cell has just become stationary and just producing over and over again.

 

[Andrew Francis]

Tornado just crossed in front of David Payne. South of Perry

 

[Graham Butler]

Just got off the phone with David Drummond. While filming the elephant trunk tornado from the ditch he was struck by lightning and knocked to the ground. Aside from feeling "funny," he says he seems to be ok.

He reports the lightning is as impressive as Mulvane.

Graham

 

[Dave Kaplow]

Glad he's OK. And they say lightning never strikes twice...

Actually, it's not really funny. If he really got hit directly, Dave should make absolutely sure he's not injured, maybe get someone to check him out just in case...

 

[Ryan C. Shirk]

Just touched base with Mikey Gribble who filmed the tornadoes in N. Central Oklahoma. Mikey indicated that his footage will be aired on CNN shortly.

Viewing the live feed from the NEWS9 chopper it appears that the storm is becoming outflow dominant.

Ryan

 

[Graham Butler]

Glad he's OK. And they say lightning never strikes twice...

Actually, it's not really funny. If he really got hit directly, Dave should make absolutely sure he's not injured, maybe get someone to check him out just in case...

He stopped and spoke with EMS. Aside from his oxygen and BP being slightly low they thought he was ok.

Graham

 

[Andy Kula]

I hope he is OK. From a fellow lightning survivor while chasing (15 years running), the experience stays with you forever. I'm glad he found medical attention.

Andy

 

[Andrew Francis]

Dryline looks to be getting active in W and NW OK.


New Tornado watch warranted for this.

 

[Robert Balogh]

Congrats to all who took the southern play and saw an incredible show.

And stick a fork in the Nebraska option. The little hints of convection off that veering boundry just evaporated poof. Calling it an early night in York Nebraska

 

[David Wagener]

Nice to here David Drummond is okay. On KWTV one of their trackers made the comment the number of people on the back of their trucks with cameras taking pictures. Apparently the lightning was extremely wild at the time and they were commenting on just how smart it was to be out as a human lightning rod. Perfect example of you never know what will happen, even if you think you are safe. Lightning is going to kill you more than likely before the tornado will.

Looks like two main supercells now, the original one absorbed some more and has reorganized. A new one to the west just east of Enid. More developing to the west and south. Long night ahead.

 

[Ryan McGinnis]

For those chasing the Nebraska target, I wonder if anyone notices the intensifying showers coming off the convective crap blowoff in northcentral/NE kansas. Not sure if that's an OFB interaction or what, but it's showing up on the sat shot, too. Wonder if that can take root as it slides north a bit. Nothing much else going on in the area.

 

[Daniel Christianson]

Nothing but some towering CU pics caught, i was on the albion NE storms, back home now in Bennington NE, watching the sunset hoping tommorow is better?

 

[Chris Gullikson]

5/24/08 DISC: OK / KS / NE

Incredible show today, lost count on number of tornadoes we saw, at least a dozen. I am chasing with Kirstie Johnson after having finished up yesterday driving for Tempest. Had a few exciting moments just north/east of Hennesey on the dirt roads as a large tornado was behind us and close...
Lighting has been incredible and continues to be. Got video of a step leader hitting a wire within 100 feet of us.
Sitting here at a rest area on 35 just north of 412 watching a wrapped up meso drift by to our north, looks like we lost the good inflow to these storms.
Hope to get photos and video out soon, been a wild 3 days.

 

[Jeff Snyder]

MOD NOTE: Now that the storms have ended, please try to continue any discussion of this event in the 5/24 DISC thread. I just moved several posts out of the NOW thread into the DISC. So, if you don't see your post here, and it pertained to storms that are long gone (or that never developed), please continue over the DISC thread.

Feel free to talk about the supercell that's near Attica and Anthony, KS, right now, though, or the rather beautiful bow echo just south of the Red River... Gracias!