Been a while since I posted over here, just thought I'd update you guys on things going on here in the great plains of the USA. The storm season got off to a pretty slow start, while my first chase was on April 5th, I didn't see a true Supercell thunderstorm until April 29th. Since that chase I've only been out 4 more times, but all of those have been fantastic. We've been fortunate enough to witness several tornadoes this season while it is just now about half way through. I will stop the talk here and post what you all want to see
If you want to read detailed accounts of Chases they are posted here...
http://www.tonightssky.org/chase/2010.html Just to sum our ventures up real quick.... we chased the following dates, April 5, 6, 23, 29. May 10, 18, 19. Logged about 4,300 miles. We can't "really" call any chases busts because we observed tornado warned storms on every day. While tornado count doesn't really matter, we only got to truly photograph one tornado this season (but do have documentation of all), as most that we saw were short lived and occurred while we were driving. Here are a few of the highlights of the season so far (I'll update again in late June after the season comes to a close).
April 29th, washington, Kansas
May 10th, Pawhuska, Oklahoma
May 18th, Somewhere in Oklahoma at 2 in the morning, lol
May 19, near Dover, Oklahoma
The one and only true "storm photography" portfolio type photograph that I've taken this season....
Here is a video from May 18th (warning, there is some language, sorry about that lol) Also the audio is screwed up during the beginning timelapse part of the video, and the shaky video during certain parts, that was the worst road I have ever been on, it was literally mud, almost like driving on water, Chris is editing more video from May 10, and May 19 that should be up pretty soon as well.
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