Anybody have pics of TIV2?

[Sean Casey]

2008 intercepts

We got into four circulations, but they all had problems for me (Imax wise). Kearny, Stuttgart, Quinter, and one south of Kearny near a reservior.

The Struttgart, Arkansa tornado happened in almost compete darkness, no exposure for me, and it was chasing us at I'd guess 55 mph. We couldn't get away as we were incountering 90 mph inflow and had bad visability. The tornado was coming right up the road behind us, but it had a slight southern track relative to the road, so I knew that the further we got we the better chance of getting hit by the northern part of the circulation. After doing a survey and looking at radar data, Josh said the winds in the southern section of the tornado exceeded 200 mph. So I'm quit happy with the decision made to run for it. Yet in the end it did catch us. I haven't gotten around to paint the yellow stencil on TIV yet.

The other tornadoes, Quinter and Reservior, had their funnels lift over us on both occasions, only to reform on the other side of the road. Maddening.

The Kearny tornado that we experienced was a broad/weak circulation that didn't really read as a tornado. More like straight line winds carring every lawn chair in town.

Better luck next year I hope.

 

[Tim Stoecklein]

I don't want to detract from the thread anymore, but I wanted to clarify my original post. My point was poorly conveyed. I understand the sale of materials, I really do, and my post was not intended to belittle those who want to sell materials rather than give them away. However, I guess it was the lack of civility with which they posted their responses that bugs me.

At any rate, just wanted to throw that out there.....flame away.

Mike U., great point about obtaining permission/authorization when photographing people and identifiable objects. We run into this topic quite often when shooting stills or video to produce promotional materials for university entities.

 

[James Langford]

I completley understand that Ryan. It costs a lot to be out there chasing storms and when you get a shot it's a prize. A prize that has worth and should be valued as such by getting paid for it. I just can't pay for it. But I do hope that Discovery will, in fact I'll bring the photos you took to their attention.

Thanks for clarifying things Sean. That would be pretty cool if Discovery licensed Ryan's shots.

James

 

[John A. Sellers]

Sean, if I had any photos of TIV or TIV2 I would gladly send you copys. We were too far behind you to get any but, I would have liked to have taken a few. Good luck.

 

[Ryan McGinnis]

The Kearny tornado that we experienced was a broad/weak circulation that didn't really read as a tornado. More like straight line winds carring every lawn chair in town.

Better luck next year I hope.

I'd agree with you up to a point. I drove (stupidly) through that circulation, too, about 5 minutes before it came into Kearney. It was miles wide and not terribly strong; just enough to make it hard to stay in a straight line on the Interstate. However, once it got in town, there were pockets of significant tornadic circulation. I wasn't there to see them -- in fact, I ran into you as I cruised east and shot those pics on an on-ramp -- but when I went back and did a few damage shots, I found damage that can only be caused by tornadic winds, like cars stacked atop one another. A few people I talked to on the northwest end of town who claimed to see the actual funnel described seeing a small funnel break off from a larger one and go off to the northeast as the other continued plodding east. One guy who had his garage full of vintage cars destroyed on the northeast end of town said he saw the funnel coming from the west and went for cover in the basement. I think there was definately a tornado there, it's just that it didn't tighten up until it nearly got into town.