Mike Hollingshead
http://www.extremeinstability.com/video.htm
Well I think I finally have this DONE. If you order and I run into a
problem making more DVDs I will have to say I'm sorry but there will be no
refunds as I will just go jump off a bridge. Just kidding of course. I'll
refund before I jump. There shouldn't be any probs though as I've made a
ton already and am having no problems. JINX!!!! (squared away the source
of all my problems to a dirty dvd player #%#@$@#$)
About the vid. Every year from here on out should look to 2004 for the
standard in which springs should come in. If we could see "2005" and it was
an object I bet it has this most evil grin. 2004 takes the cake! A year
where you can royally screw up a ton of days and still blow away any
expectations for any perfectly chased year....crazy. With this years video
I tried to fully capture the best days of the year and leave all the other
non-2004-standard storms out. Not because I wanted to, but because I didn't
want more then a 2hr vid. It would be wrong to sacrafice tornado footage to
squeeze in some 'normal' chase days.
Chases covered:
May 16 Holt Co. Nebraska tornadoes: Compact beasty HP tracks ne and
produces a tornado just west of the road after all lightning activity
DIES...after being a CONSTANT lightning producer(one long roll of thunder as
it approaches). This storm had a perfect "donut hole" with the rfd. Nice
motions with wrapping rain curtains before the main tornado occurs. When
tornadogenisis occurs I wasn't exactly expecting it anymore, and it was just
off the road in the field about 1/8th mile. It appears the RFD being
infront of it actually pushes it a bit west from where it first forms. That
or the parent circulation skinnies up. It just seems alot closer when it
first forms.
May 22 eastern NE monster supercell: This storm formed near Columbus and
rides the warm front east. You can imagine it's potential on the warm front
when you look what storms not on the warm front were doing. It was never se
vere warned I do not believe after it first went up. I think it's first
warning was a tornado warning. The radar of this event/storm is really
pretty insane. Just as it'd get a strong hook it'd have to eat a storm
infront of it. A little storm would pop up and disrupt it just enough. You
could watch it quickly reform and hook I think 3 times between Columbus and
Blair each time having to eat new convection infront of it. Had this not
been happening I'm fairly certain there would of been a long tracked tornado
very near or in town after town down highway 30....including my home town!
I think every town from Columbus to Blair reported baseball or larger hail.
I decided to stay west of the meso as it was just so amazing to look at.
Problem was getting inside the precip/hail wrap to see. It wanted so badly
to put a big one down so you had to be inside the hail enough but not under
the thing. After the structure dissapears behind precip you can see high
speed scud going around the circulation just off the ground with the rain.
I couldn't believe the people driving into that scene..lol. I was
like....best of luck in there!
May 24 Chester Nebraska tornadofest: I stayed on the highway south(81?)
for this chase taking in tornado after tornado. Part of me wishes I had
tried to get closer to one or two of them but when you see 3 going on at
once you quickly realize it might be a bit trickier then normal to get
close. The longest lived tornado is rather cool towards it's end. It just
sort of looked like smoke that seemed like it was hardly able to hold
together. I didn't see the 15 or more tors some saw, but am still not
certain how that is. There are 6 or 7 on this segment though. This
includes the last one where apparently there is another in the shot I had no
idea of! Another site points it out. Only in 2004....lol.
May 28 nc to ne Nebraska LP beast: The, "what the hell" storm.
http://www.extremeinstability.com/stormpic.../04-5-28-18.jpg And right after
that I think the general comment will be, "what the hell". A freaky inflow
machine. Wind screaming through the electrical wires and this flat
smoothing going on of the clouds forming from the extreme inflow. Freaky.
And it appears to be dumping this precip in this perfect wall for some time.
Never seen anything remotely like this. The storm was on this steady state
growth cycle. Like it was growing at all times until it had to start to bow
out at Sioux City. Great chase day.
June 10 Big Springs Nebraska: I talked too long at the North Platte
library, blowing off that storm for a bit too long....like all but the last
30 seconds of the tornado too long.
June 11 nc Iowa tornadofest: Not to complain after getting 5 tornadoes,
but ain't there a rule against tornadogenisis at 1pm? I missed the best tor
of the day(#1) by 40 miles or so. Got tors 1,2 and 3(excluding what I
missed of course) from a few miles away. 1 was a nice white tube, 2 an
elephant trunk, and 3 a large brief touchdown(vid is far from great on all
these 3). 4 was a nice spoutish tor west of Ft. Dodge a few hours later. 5
was the main tor I caught this day. This was south of Ft. Dodge. There was
this really long line of weakish convection that seemed to go ne-sw forever.
I wanted to get to tail-end-charlie but there was always something new! The
4th tor slowed me down as it seemed like anywhere in the line would do. I
think if there is VERY dry air in the mid-levels you can get some "strange"
things. After the 4th tor I just wanted to look for any "kinks" in this
line so I meandered around on dirt roads south of Ft. Dodge as the line was
barely moving. Finally one forms. Shortly after a dust whirl forms that
I'd normally insist was a....well...dust whirl, gustnado. This is happening
right around the 1 square mile grid road to my north. Right above this
whirl a tiny white funnel pokes out briefly. The cut/kink continues to grow
above and the whirl gets more and more intense with NO funnel at all for the
longest time. It tears something up before crossing the highway east. The
cut is really cool to watch as it cuts very hard back to the west, north of
the now funnel. Below the funnel the vortex at the ground is quite intense
with crazy multiple vorticies tearing things up. Got some zoomed in footage
from within a mile. Then this thing really smacks some outbuildings and
fills the air with debris. I set the vid cam down to shoot some stills
quickly and this short time frame is the only point condensation fully
contacts the sfc..
http://www.extremeinstability.com/stormpic.../04-6-11-17.gif I now wish I had
kept videoing that part as conditions for good stills sucked with all the
precip. Video during that part would of been very sweet as the lower vortex
when it would condense was doing some really cool things...
http://www.extremeinstability.com/stormpic.../04-6-11-15.jpg It briefly got 4
or 5 individual funnels splitting and spacing themselves perfectly..this is
on vid but the contrast wasn't that great so it's hard to see, but can be
seen.
June 13 Alvo Nebraska mean supercell and tornado: Didn't want to use
beast again, but beast probably works better then mean. This was truly a
crazy storm to look at. It looked like it wanted to come to life and just
start killing things. Like it was sent from hell...lol. The intertwining
of the tornadoes is cool. There were 5 or so subvorticies that touch down.
The one decides to stick right where it is all skinny like, while a 2nd and
3rd go across it heading south. The 2nd one slows up and the 2 are ongoing
right next to each other and when the 2nd comes apart you can see somehow
there were 2 intertwined in it...seriously intertwined. You can watch them
come apart as it dies. How exactly they can intertwine like that I haven't
a clue.
July 12 Bartlett Nebraska Tornadoes and BIG Supercell: I'm getting really
sick of typing this. http://www.extremeinstability.com/04-7-12.htm
Insanity at it's finest. 2 tornadoes and a true MONSTER supercell. Likely my favorite catch of the year. Maybe my best tornado footage. It was very backlit leaving the early funnel looking very black. The tornadogenisis is probably the best part as it goes on forever and not in an entirely typical fashion.
August 26 Coin Iowa Tornadic supercell: I replaced the Mullen gust front day and that evenings electrified North Platte supercell with this August day in IA as it seemed like a no brainer to do so. If anyone really wants the Mullen event let me know as I can just burn the old DVD. Anyway, the Coin Iowa storm was a beautiful supercell. Semi gets blown over minutes before I get to the area. The storm begins to rotate rather hard sending a very intense RFD west and south. I'd estimate the winds on the interstate at least 60mph out of the east just behind the meso. It soon puts out a torando to the north of me as I go east and at the same time a new very large and intensely rotating wall cloud forms right infront of me. I record the wall cloud instead of the tornado as it was just that cool. This area soon puts down many odd white vorticies that only condense right around the ground for the most part. Meanwhile the supercell shows amazing structure with a beavertail stretching east for miles. The whole scene just seems wrong as nearly all the lightning activity is WAY downstream popping away out of the anvil...the storm was highly sheared.
http://www.extremeinstability.com/video.htm
Thanks,
Mike
Well I think I finally have this DONE. If you order and I run into a
problem making more DVDs I will have to say I'm sorry but there will be no
refunds as I will just go jump off a bridge. Just kidding of course. I'll
refund before I jump. There shouldn't be any probs though as I've made a
ton already and am having no problems. JINX!!!! (squared away the source
of all my problems to a dirty dvd player #%#@$@#$)
About the vid. Every year from here on out should look to 2004 for the
standard in which springs should come in. If we could see "2005" and it was
an object I bet it has this most evil grin. 2004 takes the cake! A year
where you can royally screw up a ton of days and still blow away any
expectations for any perfectly chased year....crazy. With this years video
I tried to fully capture the best days of the year and leave all the other
non-2004-standard storms out. Not because I wanted to, but because I didn't
want more then a 2hr vid. It would be wrong to sacrafice tornado footage to
squeeze in some 'normal' chase days.
Chases covered:
May 16 Holt Co. Nebraska tornadoes: Compact beasty HP tracks ne and
produces a tornado just west of the road after all lightning activity
DIES...after being a CONSTANT lightning producer(one long roll of thunder as
it approaches). This storm had a perfect "donut hole" with the rfd. Nice
motions with wrapping rain curtains before the main tornado occurs. When
tornadogenisis occurs I wasn't exactly expecting it anymore, and it was just
off the road in the field about 1/8th mile. It appears the RFD being
infront of it actually pushes it a bit west from where it first forms. That
or the parent circulation skinnies up. It just seems alot closer when it
first forms.
May 22 eastern NE monster supercell: This storm formed near Columbus and
rides the warm front east. You can imagine it's potential on the warm front
when you look what storms not on the warm front were doing. It was never se
vere warned I do not believe after it first went up. I think it's first
warning was a tornado warning. The radar of this event/storm is really
pretty insane. Just as it'd get a strong hook it'd have to eat a storm
infront of it. A little storm would pop up and disrupt it just enough. You
could watch it quickly reform and hook I think 3 times between Columbus and
Blair each time having to eat new convection infront of it. Had this not
been happening I'm fairly certain there would of been a long tracked tornado
very near or in town after town down highway 30....including my home town!
I think every town from Columbus to Blair reported baseball or larger hail.
I decided to stay west of the meso as it was just so amazing to look at.
Problem was getting inside the precip/hail wrap to see. It wanted so badly
to put a big one down so you had to be inside the hail enough but not under
the thing. After the structure dissapears behind precip you can see high
speed scud going around the circulation just off the ground with the rain.
I couldn't believe the people driving into that scene..lol. I was
like....best of luck in there!
May 24 Chester Nebraska tornadofest: I stayed on the highway south(81?)
for this chase taking in tornado after tornado. Part of me wishes I had
tried to get closer to one or two of them but when you see 3 going on at
once you quickly realize it might be a bit trickier then normal to get
close. The longest lived tornado is rather cool towards it's end. It just
sort of looked like smoke that seemed like it was hardly able to hold
together. I didn't see the 15 or more tors some saw, but am still not
certain how that is. There are 6 or 7 on this segment though. This
includes the last one where apparently there is another in the shot I had no
idea of! Another site points it out. Only in 2004....lol.
May 28 nc to ne Nebraska LP beast: The, "what the hell" storm.
http://www.extremeinstability.com/stormpic.../04-5-28-18.jpg And right after
that I think the general comment will be, "what the hell". A freaky inflow
machine. Wind screaming through the electrical wires and this flat
smoothing going on of the clouds forming from the extreme inflow. Freaky.
And it appears to be dumping this precip in this perfect wall for some time.
Never seen anything remotely like this. The storm was on this steady state
growth cycle. Like it was growing at all times until it had to start to bow
out at Sioux City. Great chase day.
June 10 Big Springs Nebraska: I talked too long at the North Platte
library, blowing off that storm for a bit too long....like all but the last
30 seconds of the tornado too long.
June 11 nc Iowa tornadofest: Not to complain after getting 5 tornadoes,
but ain't there a rule against tornadogenisis at 1pm? I missed the best tor
of the day(#1) by 40 miles or so. Got tors 1,2 and 3(excluding what I
missed of course) from a few miles away. 1 was a nice white tube, 2 an
elephant trunk, and 3 a large brief touchdown(vid is far from great on all
these 3). 4 was a nice spoutish tor west of Ft. Dodge a few hours later. 5
was the main tor I caught this day. This was south of Ft. Dodge. There was
this really long line of weakish convection that seemed to go ne-sw forever.
I wanted to get to tail-end-charlie but there was always something new! The
4th tor slowed me down as it seemed like anywhere in the line would do. I
think if there is VERY dry air in the mid-levels you can get some "strange"
things. After the 4th tor I just wanted to look for any "kinks" in this
line so I meandered around on dirt roads south of Ft. Dodge as the line was
barely moving. Finally one forms. Shortly after a dust whirl forms that
I'd normally insist was a....well...dust whirl, gustnado. This is happening
right around the 1 square mile grid road to my north. Right above this
whirl a tiny white funnel pokes out briefly. The cut/kink continues to grow
above and the whirl gets more and more intense with NO funnel at all for the
longest time. It tears something up before crossing the highway east. The
cut is really cool to watch as it cuts very hard back to the west, north of
the now funnel. Below the funnel the vortex at the ground is quite intense
with crazy multiple vorticies tearing things up. Got some zoomed in footage
from within a mile. Then this thing really smacks some outbuildings and
fills the air with debris. I set the vid cam down to shoot some stills
quickly and this short time frame is the only point condensation fully
contacts the sfc..
http://www.extremeinstability.com/stormpic.../04-6-11-17.gif I now wish I had
kept videoing that part as conditions for good stills sucked with all the
precip. Video during that part would of been very sweet as the lower vortex
when it would condense was doing some really cool things...
http://www.extremeinstability.com/stormpic.../04-6-11-15.jpg It briefly got 4
or 5 individual funnels splitting and spacing themselves perfectly..this is
on vid but the contrast wasn't that great so it's hard to see, but can be
seen.
June 13 Alvo Nebraska mean supercell and tornado: Didn't want to use
beast again, but beast probably works better then mean. This was truly a
crazy storm to look at. It looked like it wanted to come to life and just
start killing things. Like it was sent from hell...lol. The intertwining
of the tornadoes is cool. There were 5 or so subvorticies that touch down.
The one decides to stick right where it is all skinny like, while a 2nd and
3rd go across it heading south. The 2nd one slows up and the 2 are ongoing
right next to each other and when the 2nd comes apart you can see somehow
there were 2 intertwined in it...seriously intertwined. You can watch them
come apart as it dies. How exactly they can intertwine like that I haven't
a clue.
July 12 Bartlett Nebraska Tornadoes and BIG Supercell: I'm getting really
sick of typing this. http://www.extremeinstability.com/04-7-12.htm
Insanity at it's finest. 2 tornadoes and a true MONSTER supercell. Likely my favorite catch of the year. Maybe my best tornado footage. It was very backlit leaving the early funnel looking very black. The tornadogenisis is probably the best part as it goes on forever and not in an entirely typical fashion.
August 26 Coin Iowa Tornadic supercell: I replaced the Mullen gust front day and that evenings electrified North Platte supercell with this August day in IA as it seemed like a no brainer to do so. If anyone really wants the Mullen event let me know as I can just burn the old DVD. Anyway, the Coin Iowa storm was a beautiful supercell. Semi gets blown over minutes before I get to the area. The storm begins to rotate rather hard sending a very intense RFD west and south. I'd estimate the winds on the interstate at least 60mph out of the east just behind the meso. It soon puts out a torando to the north of me as I go east and at the same time a new very large and intensely rotating wall cloud forms right infront of me. I record the wall cloud instead of the tornado as it was just that cool. This area soon puts down many odd white vorticies that only condense right around the ground for the most part. Meanwhile the supercell shows amazing structure with a beavertail stretching east for miles. The whole scene just seems wrong as nearly all the lightning activity is WAY downstream popping away out of the anvil...the storm was highly sheared.
http://www.extremeinstability.com/video.htm
Thanks,
Mike
, can't wait to get it after all the great reviews i'm hearing
