Just a quick update to the blog. It is 3am and were in Kansas City and dead to the world but I was on the storm that dropped a tornado near Pittsburg Kansas tonight. The storm fired at sunset so it was hard to see the thing and I’m not sure how the video will look but we could visually see it just southwest of the town drop a funnel that was almost to the ground in the middle of some fields with a nice wall cloud for a few minutes. We followed it through town and when it started to fall apart. It was pretty nice for the visuals to see the setup with the twilight back lighting the storm and the faint lights of the city helping out at times.
As far as I know, no damage was done by this storm but it was a great learning experience for Phillip who is chasing with me to learn how the whole chasing and media thing comes together.
Also we were on another storm that was a low topped super-cell that was trying to produce near Adair OK. Yes, today was one of those crazy chase days were it was a low chance of seeing anything and we saw a lot of stuff. And crazy because we drove from KS to OK to MO to KS to MO back to KS and then back to KC MO for the night. Ugh, this chase is really going “to the break of dawn”…
Ok bad rap music quote. I’m going to share a couple photos and a screen cap from the video camera before I call it a night.
Here is what I got near Adair OK. It looked better before this but I was stuck on the turnpike and had to drive out of my way to get back to here I could actually see this.
Here is the storm that went through Pittsburg KS. The first is the anvil from just north of town and the second is a vid-cap of what I was seeing. It was so freaking hard to see this since the lightning was pretty much nil and the storm was not that strong but it was still doing it.
Video Cap from just south of Pittsburg KS.
Ok, off to bed, tomorrow is already here and I only have a few hours to sleep before I go back out on the chase.