{"id":249,"date":"2008-05-15T00:52:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T05:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2008-05-15T00:53:30","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T05:53:30","slug":"051408-chase-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/15\/051408-chase-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"05\/14\/08 Chase Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/051408gustnado1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-250\" title=\"051408gustnado1\" src=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/051408gustnado1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/051408gustnado1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/051408gustnado1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After an exhausting quick trip back to west Texas from where I started in Mineral Well, I intercepted a supercell just north of my target of Big Spring.  At first there was a lot of outflow undercutting the base, kicking up some impressive gustnadoes underneath some scary looking dangly, outflow oriented clouds. Unfortunately, someone reported those as tornadoes when they weren&#8217;t, even though a couple of them were impressive, including the very large one pictured above.<\/p>\n<p>After some repositioning and a little hail trying to get ahead of the gusting out, the cell managed to get it&#8217;s act together right before merging with a couple more cells, and produced this really nice lit tornado, and then later a persistent funnel cloud.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/051408tornado1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-251\" title=\"051408tornado1\" src=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/051408tornado1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"469\" srcset=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/051408tornado1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/051408tornado1-255x300.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/051408funnel1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-252\" title=\"051408funnel1\" src=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/051408funnel1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/051408funnel1.jpg 400w, http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/051408funnel1-256x300.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the cells merged, they were off like a rocket, and while tornado warned for the next 3 or 4 hours, no matter how hard I tried, I never could get ahead of them, so I finally called it off around Commanche, TX.<\/p>\n<p>There are some benefits to being behind the storm however.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/051408rainbow1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-253\" title=\"051408rainbow1\" src=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/051408rainbow1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/051408rainbow1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/051408rainbow1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an exhausting quick trip back to west Texas from where I started in Mineral Well, I intercepted a supercell just north of my target of Big Spring. At first there was a lot of outflow undercutting the base, kicking up some impressive gustnadoes underneath some scary looking dangly, outflow oriented clouds. Unfortunately, someone reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extreme-weather","category-storm-chasing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}