Another Chase Case! #9

As i said before, I am very pleased with myself on this case! I wouldve seen the F4 monster near kansas speedway that I've heard so much about since moving here from california 3 years ago. Nice case BTW. On to case 10! lol. Hopefully we wont have too much longer to wait for a real chase.
 
Looks like if I stayed with the final cell I picked today I should have possibly seen some strong tornadoes in the south east corner of KS. Wish I had chased this day in real life :) still very fun though, thanks for putting this together.
 
I recognized the date after the 15z data. This day was my first storm chase, if that's what you call it...(jumped in the car). We watched a funnel drop a nice tornado north of Eudora, KS (about 5 miles e/ne of Lawrence, KS) and watched it grow in size. This day got me hooked! North of Eudora near Linwood, a good-sized boat was thrown up into a tree! It was tough keeping up with it in the metro and we finally gave up near Richmond, MO.

Thanks again Marc for putting these up!
 
Quite the beast, Brian. Whew.

I'm not going to get too detailed here. I was hanging out in Topeka pretty much all day. As the storms began to fire, I positioned myself in the right neighborhood around Lawrence and KC, and then blasted east. Given the number of tornadoes in the area, it would have been weird not to have intercepted one or two. I'm sure I did. Sorry, though, no photos. I didn't have a camera back then. ;)
 
Well, if I could have averaged where I was in real life this day (too far northeast) and where I was in the virtual chase (too far northwest), I would have been in better position than in either case. As it was, in the virtual chase I apparently saw the same thing as in real life - supercells and hail, but missed the tornadoes. Now, if you average the two, I could have either blasted south just in time to see the KC area tornadoes, or just late enough to get trashed by the hail.

Oh, BTW - this is not the day I was first suspecting that it was. Part of the reason I was too far NE in the real-life chase is that I was coming from IA, and chose to take the back roads rather than the interstates because they seemed to offer a more direct route to my target. Combine the fact that in real life I targeted too far east (rather than too far west as in the virtual chase) and the slow roads, and I could not make it to the KC area storms while they were still producing.
 
I was just north of Pitcher, as thats what day I thought it was, but not too far from things, might have got into something had I been there watching radars and such
 
Alright, now that everyone knows what day this was I will go ahead and throw up the link to our video from that day. Dan Holiday shot this video while we caught the Girard, KS tornado (F4) and the Carl Junction, MO tornado (F3).

It was an amazing day. I was lucky to get off work at noon. I was supposed to work until 3:00pm that day. We had extra help, so they let me go. After I found out a HIGH RISK had been issued, I basically begged them to let me leave early. We left Wichita around 1pm. Did not see any real time weather data that day until the 18Z stuff. Dan was checking it out throughout the day and giving me updates.

We also chased this day with a backroads map of Kansas, a weather radio, and a radio station. No laptops or nowcasting. I still wish we could have left earlier and got ahead of the Girard, KS storm. I should have left work at 11. Ha!Ha!

I would enjoy seeing other video and pics of this major outbreak day. Different vantage points of these same tornadoes would be cool! Please post if you have some :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jzCfZNntSY
 
Paul Austin said:
I think I'll stay where I am and enjoy lunch for now. I'm intrigued by a remote possibility for some late action up in the Mitchell, SD area. The air is pretty worked-over, Td's marginal at best, and surface temps still in the mid-50's. But the clearing SW of the northern MCS is nice, and with some subsidence on the back side (hopefully west of this target area), temps could rise quickly. It's not really my brain drawn to the area but more my gut. And the prospect of getting on storms away from Chaser Convergence Land is appealing. Still, it's a long shot....
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Though I missed the outbreak of the year, I'd have to say I'm quite pleased with myself on the longshot SD call. They certainly didn't happen anywhere near Mitchell, but those northern cells apparently did produce even with marginal heat and moisture.

As for this scenario, I might have glimpsed the weaker tubes up in NE near York and maybe those near Omaha, depending on visibility, location on storm, and my patience. But I would have been much too late to make the KS/MO game.

Nice pics and vids, guys. I wish I could have chased it in real life.

Thanks for another nice case, Marc. It was interesting the way the dry line and front pushed east so quickly as to shift all the storm development more into the midwest, even with the low hanging back in NE/SD area roughly.
 
I didn't chase this day in real life, but based on my case I would have intercepted the Girard tornado from the east and probably stayed ahead of it tracking it into Missouri.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2VNghJxAcQ, This is one of the links to video I took on that day. This particular video was shown via Ted Keller. In fact, in the back ground at the beginning of the video, is Ted Keller breaking down everything on the KOLR Radar. The close up video of the hook echo radar imagery is Ted Keller!!!!Just Dominating...
 
I may have intercepted the F2 near Garden City, MO...

I was heading near Harrisonville @ 21Z... Hope I would have seen the storm before I head too far south (likely since I knew these were out of range)
 
Brandon Ivey said:
Alright, now that everyone knows what day this was I will go ahead and throw up the link to our video from that day. Dan Holiday shot this video while we caught the Girard, KS tornado (F4) and the Carl Junction, MO tornado (F3).

It was an amazing day. I was lucky to get off work at noon. I was supposed to work until 3:00pm that day. We had extra help, so they let me go. After I found out a HIGH RISK had been issued, I basically begged them to let me leave early. We left Wichita around 1pm. Did not see any real time weather data that day until the 18Z stuff. Dan was checking it out throughout the day and giving me updates.

We also chased this day with a backroads map of Kansas, a weather radio, and a radio station. No laptops or nowcasting. I still wish we could have left earlier and got ahead of the Girard, KS storm. I should have left work at 11. Ha!Ha!



I would enjoy seeing other video and pics of this major outbreak day. Different vantage points of these same tornadoes would be cool! Please post if you have some :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jzCfZNntSY
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Great Video! Brings back lots of memories! The f-3 that hit Battlefield hit my neighborhood, so I didn't have to leave. It came to me. What an amazing Day. Ted Keller has some phenominal video and information on his site.
 
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