April 14th, 2001 Pratt Kansas tornado question.

[Danny Neal]

The leftover wedge from that day in which I believe it was only me and Jon Davies and maybe 3 or 4 other chasers around. I have never seen any other videos or pictures of this storm. Jon Davies wrote up a case study about it, but I can't seem to find that anymore. Anyone have any other photos of this storm or know anyone that does? I have a 30-45 long video from this chase and through the 3 hours I chased this storm from Pratt to Wichita, I didn't see a soul. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Mike Umscheid]

One of my finest chases. Unfortunately, I had to resort to the web archive to find my chase page from that day. Jay Antle and I were a couple of the other "3 or 4" you speak of. Most everyone else that day was chasing in western Oklahoma. I still need to re-upload a bunch of archive material back onto underthemeso.com. After some exhaustive searching, I was able to come across this archived page showing all my stills from this tornado:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010605001816/www.grapevine.net/~mscheid/chase01/apr14/images.html

 

[Mike Umscheid]

LOL, there's still pages on my old "grapevine.net" from a number of years ago. Here are some of Jay Antle's video stills:

http://www.grapevine.net/~mscheid/chase2001/apr14-a.jpg

replace "a" with letters "b" through "o" before the ".jpg" for more.

 

[Danny Neal]

wow. Thanks a lot Mike! Sorry for the trouble but I finally found my set of pictures from this day and always wondered who else was on this (I recall seeing your pictures way back in 01) and never knew what happened to them.

 

[Danny Neal]

Added a very quick video, done in poor quality and sped up to show this supercell and its approach just before dropping a wedge that Mike posted just above. My cpu is having issues lol So I just video taped my screen for the time being......Will post higher quality later on in the week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0Knq5RSkGg - 7 south and 2 west of Pratt.

 

[Danny Neal]

http://www.stormtube.org/play.php?vid=202 - full chase better quality, as promised above.