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6/07/2009 REPORTS: CO/KS/NE/IA

Chased with Chris White, ended up in Hiawatha, KS waiting for initiation. Chased the northern storm for a while, eventually ended up chasing the southern storm back to I35. Played catch up most of the day, never really got a good view of the storm, but did see something interesting just west of Maysville, MO looking east towards the updraft of the storm. The rest of my chaselog on my blog. Here's a couple pics:
Wall cloud to our southwest on he northern storm:
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Storm to our southeast:
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This is our view looking east as we are just west of Maysville, MO around 8:15 (I think). Not sure what it is, time lapse of this feature is below. It was obviously rotating. We didnt have data at this time so I have no idea where we were in relation to the storm.
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Time lapse of the feature just to our east. The DOW was just down the road from us, and numerous V2 trucks were driving around.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_ZpzkSuLYQ

Blog entry with full account
 
Danny Neal said:
Was with Adam so our reports are the same. He took a lot of pictures and I took a lot of video that I am currently uploading to Youtube. Will post a couple when they finish.

A couple of thoughts.....

* The closest we saw to it tornado-ing was just outside of Winston, MO where the wall cloud was pretty pronounced but still a tad bit high based

* That updraft was one of the, if not the, most impressive I have ever seen. If I didn't know any better I would have thought someone dropped an A bomb on KC.

* The biggest hail we encountered was maybe golfball. But it lasted for about 10 minutes and came down hard.

* After gassing up in Jamesport, we witness one of the most impressive displays of lightning either of us have witnessed. This A-bomb updraft was lit up like a X-Mas tree for about 30 minutes (and beyond) Constant anvil zits, crawlers, CG's and multicolored IC.

* The chaser convergences surrounding the TIV and SRV were unreal. Just outside of Pawnee City, NE we were going to bail on the storm and head for the nuclear bomb in NE KS when we got caught by.... must have been 75 cars all following the TIV and SRV. You could tell most were chasers as well, but a number of them had kids in the backseat and what not.
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Added Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMkio-mWZ7Q - Pawnee City, NE wall cloud - Intercepted this first storm of the day and noticed a lowering near Pawnee City. In another video I have you can you see rising motion but no rotation. I believe this right here was the best it got (that we saw) before it died.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUD8kvKAzXg - ATOMIC BOMB - 'Nuff said.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRZDpZOOydM - Somehow managed to avoid the softball hail (D'oh!) as we were looking for in the core, and blasted south out of the core with THIS as our sight to the W and SW. :drooool: A tornado was reported at this time but we did NOT see it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Est7cfRNzxU - Driving south from I 35 into Winston, MO, with tornado sirens blaring and a big wall cloud just WSW of the town.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cwFF_eqs9E - Parked outside of Winston and watched this wall cloud try to become better organized.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8dBfmmTFuU - Bailed east to try to stay ahead of the cell and in doing so we passed through Altamont, MO with tornado sirens blaring.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3X710icMCY - Finally hit the hail. Just North of Gallatin, MO. We had about 10 minutes of half dollar to golfball sized hail.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChZl6c8nPLo - THE MOST AMAZING LIGHTNING DISPLAY I HAVE EVER SEEN. WORDS DON'T EVEN DESCRIBE IT!!!

I will add more videos and text when I type up my final report in the coming days, I will post the link then.

Enjoy! For those of you with HD capabilities, you can watch my videos in HD.
 
Chased in southeast Nebraska and then into Missouri. Earlier in the day was trying to figure out where I would cross the river if I had to...didn't expect to be in the long caravan that made it's way over the Rulo, NE bridge and then through Oregon, MO. I had hoped to be across the river earlier...I got suckered in watching that Richardson county storm too long. Ended up finally getting to the other side of the MO storm, after an interesting drive on I-29 getting the heck out from underneath that monster. I decided to go south and east a ways to avoid the traffic jam and just try to get some structure shots. I sat north of Cameron, MO till about 8:30pm and then decided to head back home.

http://www.nebraskastorms.com/storms.htm

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6:01pm - West of Salem, NE looking northwest.

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8:18pm - North of Cameron, MO looking northwest.

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8:18pm - North of Cameron, MO looking northwest.

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8:31pm - North of Cameron, MO looking northwest.

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8:39pm - North of Cameron, MO looking northwest.
 
had a rather long chase in southeast nebraska and northwest missouri chasing the two main cells of the day. unfortunately i never got in front of the storms, i only caught up to them a couple of times. i left omaha at 3 with a target of marysville, ks. on the way down the first storm developed and became tornado warned about the time i was leaving beatrice, ne. i began to head east trying to find the best route around the storm as the highway i was on would lead me right through the core and the area of rotation. i found a road that took me down to the kansas/nebraska border and on the way there at some point lost my data connection. i'm still not sure if it was my computer or verizon! by the time i got the radar back i was just catching up to the storm east of pawnee city to find out it was only severe warned now. the storm that was weaker the last time i saw it just across the border in kansas was now tornado warned. we jumped ship on the first storm and made our way towards the 2nd storm. we found the bridge across the missouri river and made our way down I-29. we were too late to intercept near oregon, missouri and therefore missed all the monster hail. eventually we caught up to the storm near highway 169 and highway d. there we witnessed strong rotation that quickly formed into a funnel. we took some good video of the funnel that lasted only about a minute. this was one of the first reports of something more than a doppler indicated tornado. we followed the storm for a little while further before we needed gas. at this point my buddy and i decided that it was getting close enough to dark and a stop for gas would put us behind the storm a ways again as there was no close gas stations. we stopped one last time to look at the storm from a hill. again i had lost internet and radar. when it came back online, there was now a report of the a tornado on the ground near amity, only 6 miles east of us. we hopped back in the car arriving in maysville with the other 100 chasers. the wind was going in all directions it seemed and the rain coming down in sheets with the sirens blaring. i was able to fuel up quickly here and so we decided to make one more effort towards the storm. finally here after reaching I-35 we gave up as the storm was producing grape fruit sized hail and potentially a rain wrapped tornado, which is no fun at night! we went down to hwy 36 to head home and had to stop near cameron, mo bc of the new cells that exploded around sunset to the southwest of the original monster cell. we sat through wind and hail up to about quarter sized for about 15 minutes. when it let up we headed the rest of the way home arriving back around 130am. 10 or so minutes after we left cameron the storm became tornado warned just north of where we stopped and this was the storm that produced the rain wrapped large tornado near gallatin(which i havent seen the survey for yet??) overall a pretty good chase. i'm just disappointed this monster didn't produce a tornado that lasted longer than a minute!!

video of brief funnel near cosby, mo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3FAns0dN8w

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Hello folks,

Several co-workers and I drove south for the day, Sunday... We were able to intercept the northwestern cell near Pawnee City, NE and, if not for bandwidth issues with Verizon, probably would have been able to get in position, later, for the monster near Oregon, MO. Ultimately, we got up right next to the backside of the pendant, near Union Star, MO on SR-169 - and even managed to avoid all the hail.

I don't feel the need to elaborate any further, since most of the previous posts outline things, but thought I'd share my pics. Honestly, my favorite ones were of the backside of the Oregon, MO storm. It was simply gorgeous with the setting sun.

Depending on my social/work schedule, I'll try to have a more detailed account in the blog by the end of the week.

Enjoy!

http://photos.mhartman-wx.com/index.php?cat=76
 
Chase partners and I started the day in Omaha and drove down to the target of Holton, KS. We then drove back up to the KS/NE border to go after the first NW storm got going. It had a shallow, long, flat looking wall cloud. The most impressive thing was a really long inflow tail moving at a good clip. After this was looking dead, we tried to catch up with the SE storm. We stopped in Forest City or Oregon, MO to play with and take pictures of the large hail, and eventually caught up to the front side of the storm, but it never looked that good. The chaser convergence on this lone road was insane. We then took off up I-35 north to beat the hail core and head home to MN.

Here's some video of the first storm, plus of the big hail on the ground:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAqVPnKHDPA

Tail cloud into the NW storm:
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Updraft of the dying NW storm:
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The lens cap is 2 and 1/8" in diameter:
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After taking a look at the spc and trying to decide whether the 7 to 8 hour drive would be worth it, it ended up not being and that 5% chance over Colorado was enough to make me stay in the state and suit up.

I got to Airpark Road and I-70 around 12:30- 1PM and tried to get a tan. At the time, very large cumulonimbus clouds were coming off the mountains and were slowly growing into a super cell.

First tornado warning came about 20 Miles Northwest from where i was, so i bolted to E-470 and saw the first funnel cloud already roping out.

Watching Radarlab, the storm to the south was growing much stronger, so i retreated south on E-470 which then i spotted the Southlands tornado.

I stopped once again Along Airpark road and filmed the tornado for about 8 minutes until it started to rope out.

When i looked back to the north, unbelievable to my eyes, a funnel cloud was dropping less than a half a mile from me. I soon started to film and drive east on I-70 stopping between Airpark Road and Watkins on I-70.

At that time the tornado was directly over me and i pretty much had nowhere to go.

I soon saw the debris spinning which took out a sign then flipped a semi right in front of me as the small tornado crossed I-70 100 feet in front of me. I was pretty freaked out and scared at this point.

I stopped and checked on the trucker and he was alright, called 911 and then continued east on I-70. Soon spotted another Funnel cloud/ Tornado to the south by Bennett. That Funnel cloud soon roped out.

The Last funnel cloud formed by Deer Trail and was the last one i saw before the storm slowly started to fall apart.

Overall, this was the best chase day i have ever had in my first year of chasing:D:D

Though next time, i'm gonna try really hard to get a little farther away from a forming tornado in front of me.

Heres some pics

Video Coming Soon.

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*Just a note, some "strong language" in this video.*

This was our encounter right on the Missouri River near White Cloud Kansas, right as the storm hooked towards the right. Caught us in sort of a precarious postion.

I guess you gotta excuse us Illinois boys. Not used to seeing hail like this so much around here. We figured at any moment the windows in the truck would be smashed. At the time we didn't know that the hail would remain so sporadic. You never really know as it's happening. Definitely glad it remained so sporadic.

Note what appears to be very large hail recoiling up out of the river after impact. Very interesting. Can't wait to review this vid on my plasma.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRI8mfl6YWo
 
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