Rocky Rascovich
EF4
Hey Everyone...hope all who got lucky this season are rejoicing mightily or perhaps your licking your wounds in disgust like many this year..
I for one had an "average" year with three tornadoes...all this past week,
June 5th near Snyder, OK and the next weekend near Wayside, TX. on the 11th and Dickins, TX on the 12th...more on those later.
Today marks the 13th anniversary of one of the most exciting chases of my career in north central Kansas...it centred around Osborne and unfortunately, I was one of the few that did not see ANY tornadoes that day..as I was marooned from my escape road to the south due to flooded roads...because of this, I was trapped literally inside the supercell with blinding rains, intense shifting winds, hail up to golfball size...all this chasing in a high top conversion van...a vehicle I have not chased in to this day...I was almost blown right off the highway a few different times..a navel puckering experience to put it mildly.
Anyway, I pulled out one of my ultimate chase videos "Chase to live, live to chase" compiled by Gene Rhoden, I just finished watching it and to this day, I can't remember a supercell quite like this one...the structure was the best I've seen as far as HP storms go. The interactions between the chasers David Gold, Gene Rhoden and others whom I can't remember on that video are priceless, not to mention at times hysterically funny.
Who else on this list was on that storm? Any comments? memories?
Also, who else on the June 15 '92 has video of it besides Gene Rhoden or David Gold? I'm very interested in purchasing a copy.
To be continued! Rocky&family
I for one had an "average" year with three tornadoes...all this past week,
June 5th near Snyder, OK and the next weekend near Wayside, TX. on the 11th and Dickins, TX on the 12th...more on those later.
Today marks the 13th anniversary of one of the most exciting chases of my career in north central Kansas...it centred around Osborne and unfortunately, I was one of the few that did not see ANY tornadoes that day..as I was marooned from my escape road to the south due to flooded roads...because of this, I was trapped literally inside the supercell with blinding rains, intense shifting winds, hail up to golfball size...all this chasing in a high top conversion van...a vehicle I have not chased in to this day...I was almost blown right off the highway a few different times..a navel puckering experience to put it mildly.
Anyway, I pulled out one of my ultimate chase videos "Chase to live, live to chase" compiled by Gene Rhoden, I just finished watching it and to this day, I can't remember a supercell quite like this one...the structure was the best I've seen as far as HP storms go. The interactions between the chasers David Gold, Gene Rhoden and others whom I can't remember on that video are priceless, not to mention at times hysterically funny.
Who else on this list was on that storm? Any comments? memories?
Also, who else on the June 15 '92 has video of it besides Gene Rhoden or David Gold? I'm very interested in purchasing a copy.
To be continued! Rocky&family