Annual Storm Chasing Awards - Rebirth

[Dave Ewoldt]

Re: Annual Storm Chasing Awards

WEATHER AWARDS

1. Best Tornado of the Year - June 4/Hiawatha, KS.

3. Biggest Outbreak of the Year - June 9 - Keeping with chasable.

4. Surprise of the Year - May 11 - surprise in that an hour before sunset the day had been called a bust. Then the Ulysses, KS tornado.

5. Craziest Core of the Year - May 12 - South Plains, TX.

6. Chase Day of the Year - June 9.

7. Chase Town of the Year - Hard to beat Hays, KS.

8. Chase Song of the Year - The Von Ehrics - Interest.

9. Chase State of the Year - K A N S A S....like a baby returning to it's mothers arms.

10. Best Chase Hotel Chain - Super 8

CHASE INTERNET AWARDS

1. Best Personal Chasing Website - Mike Umscheid's "underthemeso.com".

4. Best Data Site - COD

 

[Scott Olson]

1. June 4th,
3. Nov 15th, / June 4th,
5. May 12th,
7. Murdo, SD (4 seperate trips ended up near or at Murdo)
9. North Dakota (go figure)
10. Backseat Motel

1. Dan Robinson / Mike Hollingshead (Website)
2. Roger Edwards (Blog)
3. Weathervine
4. CoD

 

[Sara Johnson]

WEATHER AWARDS

1. Best Tornado of the Year - The ones I saw on TV, websites, etc. Saw none for myself.

2. Worst Bust of the Year - June 4th!!!! Although all of 2005 really...

3. Biggest Outbreak of the Year - November 15

4. Surprise of the Year - The late season stuff... November 15th

5. Craziest Core of the Year - NA

6. Chase Day of the Year - NONE! :*(

7. Chase Town of the Year - Norman... Didn't go too far.

8. Chase Song of the Year - I'll agree with the Green Day, "Wake me up when September ends" because of the Hurricane season.

9. Chase State of the Year - The entire gulf coast!

10. Best Chase Hotel Chain - Neal's parents house in Wichita. Good food!


CHASE INTERNET AWARDS

1. Best Personal Chasing Website - Extreme Instability and Stormguy's

2. Blogger of the Year - Famous Amos!!

3. Best Group Chasing Website - Weathervine

4. Best Data Site - College of DuPage

 

[Chris Sokol]

I cleaned this up to make it on-topic. To try and be fair about it, instead of just deleting the off-topic posts, I split the topic, and moved the other posts to the "Bar and Grill" under the title "Private Blogs". Please keep the posts in here on topic. Thank You.

New topic is located here: http://stormtrack.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9218

 

[cdcollura]

My Weather Awards Input

Here is my summary, based on storms I was on from May to June in the central USA this year of 2005 (excludes hurricane chases)...

WEATHER AWARDS

1. Best Tornado of the Year - One of many on June 12, 2005 near Spur, Texas. Particularly the multivortex one (tornado #7 on that cell?)

2. Worst Bust of the Year - May 21, near Wahoo, Nebraska. Painful cap-bust.

3. Biggest Outbreak of the Year - June 12, 2005. Cyclic TX supercell.

4. Surprise of the Year - May 17, near Cozad, Nebraska. Beautiful landspout in "see text" / maringal slight risk with < 2% tornado prob.

5. Craziest Core of the Year - May 27 off I-40 in New Mexico. HP supercell with deep-accumulating golfball hail.

6. Chase Day of the Year - June 12, 2005.

7. Chase Town of the Year - Amarillo, Texas. The big texan!

8. Chase Song of the Year - Lots of techno / dance music on our rentals' XM satellite!

9. Chase State of the Year - New Mexico (made the "best" of "May" there).

10. Best Chase Hotel Chain - Super-8.

CHASE INTERNET AWARDS

1. Best Personal Chasing Website - Sky-Chaser.com (has hurricanes too).

2. Blogger of the Year - Amos Maggliocco.

3. Best Group Chasing Website - Weathervine.

4. Best Data Site - Weathertap.

My 2 cents - Chris C - KG4PJN

 

[Kiel Ortega]

1. Best Tornado of the Year - Mar 21 near Okemah OK only because Clabo and I got a little close

2. Worst Bust of the Year - Name a day in late May or June

3. Biggest Outbreak of the Year - June 9

5. Craziest Core of the Year - Seminole, OK June 13...Clabo and I outside grabbing 1" hail :lol:

6. Chase Day of the Year - Mar 21...just b/c it was so completely random (i.e., had nothing else to do) to chase

7. Chase Town of the Year - Greensburg KS...great turkey leg (note avatar).

8. Chase Song of the Year - "What's going on" --Marvin Gaye

9. Chase State of the Year - Texas