Andrew
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Heading out!
May 8th
My Storm Chasing season is about to begin. Early tomorrow morning I will be leaving for Kansas to join up with John, just in time for what will hopefully be a good Monday. Obviously I am super excited and ready to get out there, sad to leave the fiance though. Next year she’ll be ready to chase with me though. Love you Kate!
I had a dream a couple weeks ago that I left to go chase and I forgot my video camera, that was a horrible dream, I remember how much that feeling sucked! By having that dream, the video camera is the first thing I have packed! I shall not forget it!!
Hopefully monday will be a great and successful day! We’ll let you know!
-Andrew
Remembering My Storm Chases From Last Year
Apr 22nd
With the season upon us and me a few weeks from heading out to start chasing, I thought I’d make a quick review post about last year.
Last year I got in 2 good chases. I was out there during the entire month of May, and we remember how not so well that went! Sadly, I missed all of the good June chase opportunities. Not even a week into getting out to Kansas to join up with John, I believe it was the first of May, we took a chance on a decent set up southwest of Wichita Falls, Texas. After a long drive from Lawrence, Kansas, we got down there right as things where brewing. We took a stab jumping on the developing storm northeast of where a current tornado warning was issued on the storm southwest of it. We were still getting into position from our long drive, so the storm to the northeast was our easiest play as well. It’s a good thing we did so, as we would of missed out on both storms if we would have attempted going after the southern most cell first. All those hours of driving for nothing was avoided!!!
We went after More >
Brand New Look & Feel To StorminSkies.com!
Apr 17th
So I finally got to it, completely redoing the site and making it a lot easier to use and view. It’s now a blog site, so I will be blogging on the site as well as John, and we’ll be updating all the time on our 2010 storm chases!
Had some fun in Texas!
Apr 17th
I was on a business trip heading out to Texas on Tuesday. I saw there was very slight potential for some severe weather down in the southwestern part, which was the route I was taking. But the chances of anything were slim, plus I was leaving from Phoenix early that morning, so who knows when I would get out there. But as it was, I was just driving and a cell popped up right near me, and not delaying my trip by more than an hour, I decided I would give it a little bit of attention.
So technically, I had my first chase of the season! South of Pecos, TX!
Enjoyed at first a ton of dust being kicked up from it, eventually noticing some downdrafts. Very cool seeing that and watching the dust get kicked up and thrown out. Very quick movement of the dust near the core of it to, but I was blinded from seeing a big majority of that due to rain shafts.
So wonderful just getting to hear the thunder in the distance, those distant rumbles are just beautiful! Chase season is almost here!
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