{"id":582,"date":"2009-03-28T20:09:10","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T01:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/?p=582"},"modified":"2009-03-28T20:09:10","modified_gmt":"2009-03-29T01:09:10","slug":"0325-2609-chase-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/28\/0325-2609-chase-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"03\/25-26\/09 Chase Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow, what a week!\u00a0 After the chase on Wednesday and getting in late I didn’t even get a chance on Thursday morning to do a forecast post because we already had supercells ongoing at 10 AM!<\/p>\n

Didn’t end up with any big tornadoes on Wednesday. In fact I didn’t even see any, but had a great swirl overhead I thought might turn in to one.\u00a0 Randy Denzer evidently got one a little early before I could get on the storm, since he was a little closer to get to it than I was.\u00a0 Ended up with some great lightning and stuck in Austin rush hour traffic! UGGGHH!!<\/p>\n

Here is some video from Wednesday:<\/p>\n

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Then as I said on Thursday it was up and out the door to intercept the storms now south of San Antonio.\u00a0 Ended catching a supercell hybrid as it crossed I37.\u00a0 Produced a brief tornado about I37 and Hwy 79.\u00a0 Not photogenic by any means and actually quite poor from a photogenic standpoint.\u00a0 However, rotation in the rain free base, dust swirl on the ground under it and resulting damage: roofs torn off as talked about by law enforcement radio; interstate sign supported by twin I-Beams bent over, and semi-truck overturned; as well as radar signature supports it being a tornado rather than a gustnado as I originally thought it might be.\u00a0 This is a first for me as my first gulf coast area tornado.\u00a0 Also the first for 2009!<\/p>\n

The hail core was much more interesting as it swallowed me up and pounded me with rain driven 1.25″ hail in a torrential downpour.\u00a0 Ended up breaking out my driver side mirror, both the ventshades on my front windows, cracked the windshield, and busted some holes in my grill, as well as a few thousand more dents!<\/p>\n

Here is the video from Thursday:<\/p>\n

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What a way to end up 5 days straight on the road chasing and nearly 3000 miles!<\/p>\n

Looks like the next chasing opportunity won’t be until around April 5th or so…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow, what a week!\u00a0 After the chase on Wednesday and getting in late I didn’t even get a chance on Thursday morning to do a forecast post because we already had supercells ongoing at 10 AM! Didn’t end up with any big tornadoes on Wednesday. In fact I didn’t even see any, but had a […]<\/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":[53,54,55,168,34],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extreme-weather","category-storm-chasing","tag-austin","tag-corpus-christi","tag-hail","tag-storm-chasing","tag-tornado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","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=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/daviddrummond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}