TornadoXtreme 2012 WeatherFest Storm Video / Photo Collage

[Bill Tabor]

I put this together for display & presentation at Austin't very first 2012 WeatherFest celebration at the Bob Bullock History Museum recently. It contains a brief glimpse of a few of my tornadoes / storm chase videos and quite a few photos as well presented in a slide show.

http://youtu.be/I-OFoQ1vyOQ

Note that it does begin with my Goodnight, Tx 2010 and Hennessey, Ok tornado footage that I have mentioned on here a few times, but it is very brief even though I have about 20 minutes of Goodnight and quite a bit of the other as well. I did that because I already had a clip set up to give to News 8 locally to show that was edited down and since I was throwing this together pretty much as quickly as I could one night I didn't take the time to grab more. Besides, it was primarily for a preview / collage anyway. I hope you enjoy it as I don't typically post video and some of these pictures may be new as well.

I should mention and give credit to David Douglas for a couple of his included night lightning shots near Snyder, Tx and a shot or two of Palo Duro canyon which I believe are exceptional.

Bil

 

[James Hilger]

Looks good Bill. Maybe i should PM this but I didn't realize you was right beside me in Hennessy and apparently we was pretty close in Goodnight also. Did we speak very briefly in Hennessy? Somebody came up to me.

 

[Bill Tabor]

Thanks James, I'm not sure if I talked to you there or not. There was a time when I was near some grain storage tanks and briefly talked to someone. Then I believe I was parked on the corner of the main street after the tornado lifted and rotation moved to the east. I talked to someone that came up there while I was in the car checking the maps. I was trying to figure out which route to take to follow the storm. I ended up waiting too long and got cut off by the road block. Then I ended up chasing the next storm coming up from the west further south.

As for Goodnight, I was actually on that before it touched down and do have video of the funnel in progress before touch down, then I have about 20 minutes after that all the way to rope out. It was a seriously cool / photogenic torn in my opinion. I also called that one in to the NWS, though at the time I was doing about 5 things so I probably sounded chaotic and confused a bit on the phone. I can only multi-task so much.

I'm glad you were able to catch them as well. Both were certainly good storms. The Hennessey cell continued to produce tornadoes as it moved east.