Storm Chase USA (19/05/06-06/06/06)

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Mon 29/05/2006 03:37

have you come across any actual tornadoes yet??

No but the Lightning alone has made the trip worthwhile, have seen storms with at least several hundred lightning flashes per min.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Mon 29/05/2006 10:18

At Clarendon, Texas Panhandle. Got severe thunderstorms here with golf ball hail!

compost · Unread post by **compost** » Mon 29/05/2006 11:01

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Mon 29/05/2006 13:23

At Clarendon, Texas Panhandle. Got severe thunderstorms here with golf ball hail!

Some photo's

1 Hail

2 Build up on the side of a Thunderstorm. This build up produced large hail

3 Tornado shelter at a Motarway rest area.

squid · Unread post by **squid** » Mon 29/05/2006 16:05

ouch would nto want to get hit on the head with one of thoses and you would not want any hail that size hitting your car you would be kissing your windscrean goodbye

Flutterbye · Unread post by **Flutterbye** » Mon 29/05/2006 16:29

squid wrote:ouch would nto want to get hit on the head with one of thoses and you would not want any hail that size hitting your car you would be kissing your windscrean goodbye

Not to mention the panelbeatiing that may be needed.

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Mon 29/05/2006 17:05

If they can afford all that gear surely they can pay for their dings

Flutterbye wrote:
squid wrote:ouch would nto want to get hit on the head with one of thoses and you would not want any hail that size hitting your car you would be kissing your windscrean goodbye
Not to mention the panelbeatiing that may be needed.

Flutterbye · Unread post by **Flutterbye** » Mon 29/05/2006 19:43

Michael wrote:If they can afford all that gear surely they can pay for their dings
Flutterbye wrote: Not to mention the panelbeatiing that may be needed.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Tue 30/05/2006 11:53

In Alva, Northern Oaklahoma has been a hot day up to 35C.
Incredible Thunderstorm here right now, has been going for over an hour.

Here's a pic from our hotel lobby, shows rain and 1cm hail stones falling. Great Lightning outside right now

squid · Unread post by **squid** » Tue 30/05/2006 11:56

lets hope it pops out a twister for ya

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Tue 30/05/2006 12:02

Yes, great storm going on here at the moment. Some violent wind gusts too. The local airport reported a gust of 57knots in their last metar.

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Tue 30/05/2006 12:12

Its like that here now

less lightning and thunder and warmth

NZstorm wrote:Yes, great storm going on here at the moment. Some violent wind gusts too. The local airport reported a gust of 57knots in their last metar.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Tue 30/05/2006 15:36

Insane amount of lightning here tonight.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Tue 30/05/2006 15:59

On going Thunderstorms here, really spectacular stuff.

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Tue 30/05/2006 16:35

Arghhhhh!!!!

Not fair!!!

Have been reading everyday and am jealous of your findings!

Looking forward to more!

Keep up the good work

Should be near midnight where you are now, or perhaps half past. I'm sure you all will be up still watching!

Cheers

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 31/05/2006 14:41

Aaron said,

Have been reading everyday and am jealous of your findings!

Get yourself over here sometime Aaron, worth it

We're on the Oaklahoma / Texas border at Sayre.
Spectacular on going Thunderstorm here tonight.

This afternoon we followed a SuperCell Thunderstorm for several hours.

SLR Camera Lightning pics, late afternoon light so shutter speed 2 secs.

Manukau heads obs · Wed 31/05/2006 15:17

Hi
thought I would put up this photo of the nice sunset wtih background CB anvil we had last night
also, click here
http://www.weather-display.com/hailsqual.wmv
to view us all sheltering from a hail squall (low quality video to make smaller download size (but then hard to see the hail)

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Wed 31/05/2006 16:13

superb stuff brian and the guys.

i'm certainly enjoying your guys reports as well.

Back in auckland its been pretty boring, just a couple of F3's and one F5, pretty standard for this time of year.

Oh and the skytower had snow on it, but thats it

Matt Townsend · Unread post by **Matt Townsend** » Wed 31/05/2006 20:01

They should be here! Grrrrrrrrrrrr

squid · Unread post by **squid** » Wed 31/05/2006 21:23

i am looking forward to when you guys run into a tornado and send us some pics

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Wed 31/05/2006 21:39

squid wrote:i am looking forward to when you guys run into a tornado and send us some pics

Im not looking forward to when they Run into a tornado, such a silly thing to do!!

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Thu 01/06/2006 01:42

i am looking forward to when you guys run into a tornado

So are we.
The Storm produced 1 inch hail, 90kmh wind gusts, zillions of Lightning Cg's and we observed several funnel clouds (photo).

squid · Unread post by **squid** » Thu 01/06/2006 13:59

lol i didnt mean actually pysically running into a tornado, well at least you are seeing funnels now next storm be the torndo one

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Thu 01/06/2006 15:47

In Burlington in Colorado.

Thunderstorm here late afternoon produced a lot of heavy rain, strong wind and some hail ( photo's) up to an inch size.
Larger hail lying 15cm deep was reported earlier in the afternoon west of here.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Fri 02/06/2006 15:14

In the lovely town of Taos, NewMexico.
Drove through a Thunderstorm on the way here today with 1 cm hail.

End of our stormchasing today, plan to play tourist for the last few days.