June 24 2003 SE South Dakota Tornadoes by Eric Nguyen

[Angel Escobales Jr]

I finally remembered the password to my Stormtrack account. This day is pretty much synonymous with the Manchester area tornadoes, but in honor of 19 years a couple months ago, I was given permission to share Eric Nguyen’s videos of the Centerville area tornadoes (thank you Scott Currens), which are often overlooked and I can’t seem to find discussion of on the forums! The anniversary may have past, but I hope y’all enjoy regardless. Remastered from the original Digital8 tapes to 1080p60:
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Part 02:

 

[Joey Ketcham]

Eric was such a great guy and storm chaser. I used to cross paths with him often in the late 90's and early 2000's while chasing, finding ourselves along a dirt road watching a storm. I remember being in Branson, Mo with my family when I got the news he had passed, so tragic. Glad to see his videos are still being shared.

Eric's family preserved his webpage as it was at the time of his death, which is still up to this day Eric Nguyen's Homepage of Meteorology and Storm Observing! (mesoscale.ws)

 

[Ethan Schisler]

Eric has some of the best tornado photographs on the web especially of storms of 2004 in my opinion. Can't imagine the type of stuff he would have captured these days. Never got a chance to meet him, but his photography is a huge inspiration for me.

 

[Bob Schafer]

There is a "Weather Guide Calendar" ( I think it used to have a different name) that I bought every year for awhile and Eric's Mulvane photo graced the cover, and one month, of the 2005 edition. I still have that.

 

[Rick Schmidt]

Bob---I think its just called The Weather Calendar, but I have a photo in it this year, and will have one in next year.