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5/28/08 - Above is a picture of me and
the British film crew that shot a
documentary with us on storm chasing. I
can't say enough good things about
them. They were by far the best group of
people I have ever taken chasing with
me. I had a great time with them and I
was sorry to see them go. The host is
the guy in black (named Gethin). He was
a lot of fun to screw around with. He
made fun of me pretty relentlessly, but I
did my best to give it back to him. He
was a really solid guy and amazingly good
at his job. I have no doubt he is going to
be incredibly successful (actually he
already is, but I think he has unlimited
potential). All of them were great, but we
spent the most time with Sam (guy in
green) and Gethin. Sam was a camera
guy so he rode in our car with Gethin
while the rest of the crew followed in
another car. They were both great and a
lot of fun to hang out with. I don't think
I'm supposed to say anything about the
show until it airs, but when it does I will
post more on it.
the British film crew that shot a
documentary with us on storm chasing. I
can't say enough good things about
them. They were by far the best group of
people I have ever taken chasing with
me. I had a great time with them and I
was sorry to see them go. The host is
the guy in black (named Gethin). He was
a lot of fun to screw around with. He
made fun of me pretty relentlessly, but I
did my best to give it back to him. He
was a really solid guy and amazingly good
at his job. I have no doubt he is going to
be incredibly successful (actually he
already is, but I think he has unlimited
potential). All of them were great, but we
spent the most time with Sam (guy in
green) and Gethin. Sam was a camera
guy so he rode in our car with Gethin
while the rest of the crew followed in
another car. They were both great and a
lot of fun to hang out with. I don't think
I'm supposed to say anything about the
show until it airs, but when it does I will
post more on it.
| The new show Danger Hunters episode on tornadoes airs in the UK on 10/15, which I am in obviously. Below is a promo poster. |
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| KWCH Severe Weather Coverage KWCH has set up a website for severe weather coverage that shows all of KWCH's storm chasers biographies and more importantly shows a map that shows where all the chasers are on any severe weather day. It's really cool because you can watch each one of us on a map with radar. We are setting up streaming video from some of our vehicles so that you can also watch what we are seeing live. There will be limits to the availability of that though, but I will update with links to where you can watch my live stream once it's ready, but in the mean time be sure to follow our location and progress on chase days by logging on to KWCH's severe weather page and clicking on the Chaser Tracker Map. Here is the link to KWCH's Severe Weather page. The Chase Tracker map is right at the top of the screen and scroll down to the bottom of the page to see the chaser bios.f |
6/07/09 - I targeted northeast Kansas today. This was
one tough day one forecast. I was planning on getting north
of Topeka and then we ended on just heading east from
there. It was just Eric and I so no customers, but we took an
absolute beating from softball size hail. I've seen hail that big
before, but it was alway just a couple stones. This was so
heavy it nearly covered the road in places. The hail was huge.
Anywhere from softball and bigger to golf ball, with baseball
being the most common. Needless to say it beat the hell out
of my car. Here are the pics from inside right after the
windshield took a couple hits. The one on the passenger side
is snow coned in and I can't believe it didn't collapse on the
way home. This isn't something to brag about. As a chaser I
try to avoid hail. We just got extremely unlucky. The storm
had been moving east north east when we arrived, we got
out and were watching it for about ten minutes and it had
turned almost due south right when we arrived. There was no
precipitation under the mesocyclone to indicate some rain or
hail coming through. We were sitting there watching the
mesocyclone and then you catch the baseball fly by out of the
side of your eye and hear that thud. Then you say "oh shit",
get in the car and get the hell out of there.
Well I dove south and east naturally to get away from the hail
on a supercell moving northeast. I was using my mapping
software constantly and never looked at radar since I was
trying to navigate the back roads. We just kept getting
pounding. I kept getting worse until finally it sounded like
people all around the car hitting it with bats. It was insane. I
wish it didn't happen and it's a lessoned learned, but I don't
feel like I did anything stupid to allow that to happen. I
anticipate right turns, but not 90 degree right turns. That was
an anomaly and we happened to be in the wrong place at the
wrong time. We saw the storm try to prodcuce a couple
tornadoes and that was pretty much it. Here are the pictures
of the windshield from the inside. I'll add more and video
tomorrow.
one tough day one forecast. I was planning on getting north
of Topeka and then we ended on just heading east from
there. It was just Eric and I so no customers, but we took an
absolute beating from softball size hail. I've seen hail that big
before, but it was alway just a couple stones. This was so
heavy it nearly covered the road in places. The hail was huge.
Anywhere from softball and bigger to golf ball, with baseball
being the most common. Needless to say it beat the hell out
of my car. Here are the pics from inside right after the
windshield took a couple hits. The one on the passenger side
is snow coned in and I can't believe it didn't collapse on the
way home. This isn't something to brag about. As a chaser I
try to avoid hail. We just got extremely unlucky. The storm
had been moving east north east when we arrived, we got
out and were watching it for about ten minutes and it had
turned almost due south right when we arrived. There was no
precipitation under the mesocyclone to indicate some rain or
hail coming through. We were sitting there watching the
mesocyclone and then you catch the baseball fly by out of the
side of your eye and hear that thud. Then you say "oh shit",
get in the car and get the hell out of there.
Well I dove south and east naturally to get away from the hail
on a supercell moving northeast. I was using my mapping
software constantly and never looked at radar since I was
trying to navigate the back roads. We just kept getting
pounding. I kept getting worse until finally it sounded like
people all around the car hitting it with bats. It was insane. I
wish it didn't happen and it's a lessoned learned, but I don't
feel like I did anything stupid to allow that to happen. I
anticipate right turns, but not 90 degree right turns. That was
an anomaly and we happened to be in the wrong place at the
wrong time. We saw the storm try to prodcuce a couple
tornadoes and that was pretty much it. Here are the pictures
of the windshield from the inside. I'll add more and video
tomorrow.
New pictures and Video of the
Oregon, Missouri hail storm here
Oregon, Missouri hail storm here
| 9/06/09 - I have move my blog location for the third time. I plan on staying with this site though. I like the layout a lot better and it's a lot easier for me to work with when making forecast posts. Here is the link |
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