Another image of the better tornado we saw yesterday. Ended up seeing two actually. The second one was weird in that it had rapid rotation in the wall cloud above it (we were nearly right up under it) and multiple dust whirls spinning around each other underneath it making it, by definition a multiple vortex tornado, but the tornado never filled with dust nor condensed to be visible from the cloud to the ground. Still though, a nice catch.
It was kind of cool after they aired the Live shot of the tornado on KCBD to get a call telling me we just made television history in Lubbock being the first to shoot a tornado live on the air in the Lubbock market.
Later as we headed back and took a look at a high based storm that had gone over Lamesa and dropped some big hail (which damaged one of the other KCBD Storm Chase vechicles heavily) we came across a massive hail path on the south side of Lamesa.
Stopped to play with it a while and take some pics. Later ran in to some of the crew shooting the next Discovery Channel Storm Chasers TV special in Lamesa. The got their vehicles damaged pretty good as well. Ended up going back south to take some more images (below). Anyone lose a golf ball?
Thanks to everyone that followed along and watched the LIVE ChaseCam yesterday and SPECIAL thanks to those that donated to our chase gas fund!
We are chasing today (Thursday) in Kansas and I will be posted a chase forecast here shortly!
Awesome!!! Those hail pics are incredible. What a beast of a storm. The golf course photo is pricelss…right up there with your “twisitng storm” video clip. 🙂
Gratz on the Lubbock scoop too!
Thanks man! Was a fun chase. News director just sent me a couple of viewer pics from the other side of it that are sweet! You should have came out today, we saved on buying ice for our water bottles and have a cooler full of hail from yesterday, It’s still 3/4 of the size it was..a few went in the freezer at home of course! 🙂
LOL!! Awesome. That is being frugal. Now, if we could just get Ma Nature to turn those hailstones into gasoline. 🙂
Yeah, wish I coulda made it. Sometimes, it just doesn’t work out. Hopefully by next season, I’ll have things arranged where I’m not tied down to a desk 8-5.
Here are some more pictures from the other side of the storm. I was looking around on the net and happen to stumble across a few posts where my picture was posted and wanted to share some more from that day. We were south/southeast of the storm at the time.
http://s37.photobucket.com/alb.....t%20Texas/