Call for photos, content for the Storm Chasing Event Archive

[James Wilson]

2009
Eudora KS 4-25-09 (Crossed over the rest stop on I-70)
Garden City KS 4-29-09 (Took out the dairy farm resulting in a lot of cattle losses)
Princeton KS 6-20-09 (LP Tornado with great structure)

 

[Ethan Schisler]

Here is one that I don't think many were on...

April 28, 2014 - Tupelo, Mississippi


I may upload more later on, just pulled this off my Facebook, since nearly all my photos are on external hard drives, and I don't have access to those right now.

 

[Jay Bell]

June 17, 2014 Mullen, NE

 

[Jay Bell]

June 16, 2014 Burwell, NE

 

[Wesley Luginbyhl]

Couple photos to add to existing accounts -

May 10, 2010




May 22 2010 -

 

[Dan Robinson]

Now that the long, cold winter season is settling in, it's a great time to look back on this year's chasing events and record them for posterity. We've finished populating the list of 2016 events and are in need of photos and summaries for each date:

http://stormtrack.org/weather-library/storm-chasing-event-archive/2016-events/

If you are interested in writing a summary or contributing photos, please post them here in this thread.

We also have many past events open to be filled, so any contributions are welcome. The main Event Archive page is here:

http://stormtrack.org/weather-library/storm-chasing-event-archive/

 

[Mike Marz]

@Dan Robinson, here is a short summary for the July 5th, 2016, Holloway, Minnesota tornadoes, along with 2 photos.

July 5th, 2016, featured zonal 500mb flow at around 40 knots across the northern plains running along the southern edge of a long wave trough located across southern Canada. Just south of this stronger flow aloft was a weak surface low and warm front triple point forecast to migrate slowly eastward into west-central Minnesota through the evening. As the afternoon progressed, strong surface heating along with dewpoints in the low to mid 70s south of the warm front contributed to high cape values. This buoyancy was also boosted by a strong EML pushing in from the southwest, where mid level lapse rates were steep, in the 7.5-8 C/km range. Surface convergence ahead of the triple point became strong enough around 130pm-2pm in the afternoon to initiate the first thunderstorms of the day. These cells moved slowly southeast along the weak warm front and eventually the southern flank of cells attained solid supercell structures. Around 3pm in the afternoon, the dominant supercell in the cluster was able to produce 2 weak tornadoes near Appleton/Holloway, Minnesota. The tornadoes did little to no damage and were fairly short lived. The low level shear on this day was not overwhelming, and likely limited the number of tornado reports, as the buoyancy and deep layer shear were more than adequate to produce better tornado numbers. Also, PWATs were very high and the stronger anvil level flow was displaced well north of the thunderstorm initiation area, leading to HP structures... a common occurrence for Minnesota during the summer months.

 

[Clarence Bennett]

I don't see anything from May 16th, so here are a few photos from that day. The first was a tornado that I don't think many saw because of the path they took heading sse from Wheeless, OK. This was taken approximately 1.5 miles southwest of Wheeless from N0020 Rd. The next was the Felt tornado, taken at the intersection of Hwy 412 and N0070 Rd. The last was a brief tornado northwest of Dalhart.

I drove from Nashville, TN to Weatherford, OK on May 15th and then got up early on the 16th and made the drive to Kenton, OK. From Kenton, I ended up west of Wheeless, OK and then worked my way south and southeast from there. I saw 5 brief tornadoes (2 near Wheeless, Felt, and 2 northwest of Dalhart). After this, I sat east of Channing and watched and amazing supercell that worked its way to near Masterson where I got owned by baseball sized hail (picture from there also with OU Raxpol). My best friend was working at NWS AMA at the time and issued the warning on this storm, so he still gives me a hard time for the hail dents and busted plastic...simply got caught up in the moment and got lazy. After this, I traveled on south to Amarillo and then followed it all to the east on I40, stopping for the night in Weatherford and then back to Nashville the next day as the pattern was going quiet for a few days. I was back out on the 21st for the rest of the month and many more tornadoes.

 

[James Wilson]

Now that the long, cold winter season is settling in, it's a great time to look back on this year's chasing events and record them for posterity. We've finished populating the list of 2016 events and are in need of photos and summaries for each date:

http://stormtrack.org/weather-library/storm-chasing-event-archive/2016-events/

If you are interested in writing a summary or contributing photos, please post them here in this thread.

We also have many past events open to be filled, so any contributions are welcome. The main Event Archive page is here:

http://stormtrack.org/weather-library/storm-chasing-event-archive/

July 7th Eureka Kansas should be added

We have a few photos from chase partners shown below.

 

[James Wilson]

A couple did not show above for some reason ... try again.

Here is the highest rated tornado ever to hit Kansas in July


Here is a power flash from the Eureka tornado as it is hitting the town

 

[Bill Giles]

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Ha! Didn't expect to find a picture of me here.** I'm the tall guy closest to the camera (in front of the fence) looking at Howard Bluestein. About 10 minutes after that picture was taken, that same storm we're all staring at destroyed my driver side mirror with baseball sized hail. I got distracted and wanted to meet Dr. Bluestein. Definite loss of situational awareness.

In fact, here I am at the fence.

Sorry for the derail. Here's another shot of the Felt tornado, to contribute.

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Also, these aren't the greatest photos. This was right before I bought a decent camera and so they're from an iPhone 6s.

**I know. We all chase so I guess it's inevitable that we sometimes show up in each others photos. I'm new and easily amused.

 

[James Wilson]

I just read the rules ... sorry I guess my photo submissions are not correct. But please add July 7th 2016 Eureka Kansas to the event list.

We saw the highest rated tornado ever to hit Kansas in July and a high end EF-2 go through the town on this day with 3-4 tornadoes total so worth the add.

I will ask Taylor and Jacob (In my truck this event) to add photos or a summary if needed.

 

[Dan Robinson]

Just an update to bump this post. We're in the heart of storm season, but if you have a "down day" and have chasing on the brain, we could use your help in writing chase day summaries for the Storm Chasing Event Archive. Take a look at what we've got so far:

https://stormtrack.org/weather-library/storm-chasing-event-archive/

Feel free to post here or email me at [email protected]

Thanks in advance!

 

[Nikola Pavlovic]

I sent some photos and radar images for 6/12/17. at [email protected], but i'm not sure if email ended up in junk folder or something else, so i will post here.

 

[Dan Robinson]

Hello all,

I have just added pages covering the 2003 "Ten Days in May". If any of you have images you would like to contribute, please post here in this thread. As always, any writeups and photos for the Event Archive you are willing to contribute would be appreciated. Thank you!!!

2003 Storm Chasing Events - Stormtrack

Storm Chasing Event Archive > 2003 Events > SEASON SUMMARY: The 2003 Great Plains spring season was historic in terms of the number of tornadoes that occurred just in the month of May, but also produced some banner chase events such as the June 24 South Dakota outbreak. May 1 through the 10th...

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