I don't know, I'm guessing 2010 has a lot of work to do to be some most photogenic tornado year to date. I don't even know if 2004 owns that sort of title or not. For some reason it doesn't feel as if 2010 is even close really. It also seems as though if 2010 can have a shot, that then any tornado can qualify as photogenic, which I actually think is largely true...given the right angle and right time(by and large).
But just if you start to stack it up to 2004 it starts to hit some pretty solid walls....and I can't think of most of them then....like one can do with the fresh 2010.
Yeah once I start to though, it seems easy to know 2004 has it rather owned...though yeah it's only early June this year.
2004.....seems part of the problem is just that 2004 had several tornado days....but several of those days produced a lot of tornadoes in a lot of areas. 2010 just hasn't seemed nearly as prolific on the given day.
April IL/IN tornado outbreak.
May 10 Colorado tornadofest
May 12 Attica tornadoes
May 22, sw NE tornadoes plus the early tornado from the hallam storm...plus the billion other tornadoes that day most likely.
May 24 sc NE/nc KS had a couple that could qualify..also nw MO intense tornadic sup
May 29 sc KS amazing tornadoes and nc KS wedge....again nw MO crazy crazy tornado machine.
May 30, got me, tornado outbreak to the east
June 10 Big Springs NE
June 11 Samaras' tornadoes in nw IA(tornado probe video)
June 12 Mulvane stuff
July 7 tornado outbreak in nc KS
July 12 tall barrel tornado in central NE
July 13 Roanoke IL crazy big violent tornado
There were some ND tornado days in there too...and other tornado days I don't know if they'd be "photogenic" from some location or not. Seems 2010 would have too much ground to cover for at least beating 2004. It for sure is working on a great tornado year though. It's just kind of doing it in a strange fashion. Like has been mentioned, several from kinda not obvious situations(Campo....the first early OK deal...even May 22nd SD to some degree, given just how hard that had to turn on that boundary and cap concerns).
2010 will probably end up my 2nd favorite year, but that is planning on some more catches. Or maybe it won't get 2nd. 2010 is just odd to me. It's like you get on the "tornado machine"(seems most of them weren't even tornado machines) on the right day, or you don't get much of anything else. I don't know that I've even had the camera out for lightning once yet. No great structure at all yet on anything but the 2 tornado days I chased. For me it has been catch junk...or Wakita or Bowdle. Just an all around different year for me, as I'm really finally able to just sit the heck out of some days I don't like now. Doing fairly well at that for once. Chased the 24th of May, but just left 30 minutes too late, thanks to thinking I could bump the alarm back 1 hour as I went to sleep the night before...sigh. Biggest regret of the year. Otherwise I don't regret missing much else. CO doesn't count lol. It'd be nice if some setups would finally move closer to home. Each deal is either in OK....WY/western NE/CO.....or northern/nw SD. Can add IL to that now too. Like a damn black hole around home. But still, I'm guessing 2010 will end up my number 2 year by the time it is over. Probably just because I suck it up so well most years and well 2004 was no different, just a lot more ops to be lucky.
26 Marcus! Damn. I'd probably have to do a 2005-2010 to get to 26. Yeah pretty sure I'd still not get to that. Congrats!
