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TornadoBlog.org: May 2012
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May 31, 2012. Posted by John Monteverdi and Thom Trimble. May 30, 2012. Unedited Video of First Stages of Kingman, KS tornado. Posted by John Monteverdi and Thom Trimble. May 28, 2012. May 28- Rest Day in Boulder CO. Formation stage of Tornado #9, Kingman, KS, May 19, 2012. Important Updates have been made to May 29, May 25 and May 27 blog entries. More to come. I've decided to return home a few days early.so I have a flight out on Tuesday May 29. It was a productive week. Thom and I were both gratified ...
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TornadoBlog.org: May 2011
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May 29, 2011. Well, for various reasons, I have decided to call it a chase for this season. Our chase was successful during this nearly week-long period when the synoptic-scale patterns were favorable. We also made some bad navigational and tactical errors. More on that when I have time to contemplate the last ten days. Posted by John Monteverdi and Thom Trimble. May 29: Cheyenne Ridge area of extreme se Wyoming/ne Colorado. Posted by John Monteverdi and Thom Trimble. May 28, 2011. I decided to abandon m...
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TornadoBlog.org: May 2010
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May 31, 2010. May 31: western KS. We are currently in Goodland, just in a wait and see mode. There is a disparity between the RUC (out to 12 hr) and NAM-WRF models (goes out to 84 hours) in the view of where the focus will be today. Anyway, we are holding at the Holiday Inn Express in Goodland, and watching the moisture fields/dew points as they evolve today. If they evolve in a way that suggests the RUC is correct, we stay put. Otherwise we drift south. And our forecast area never did get the moisture r...
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TornadoBlog.org: May 2009
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May 27, 2009. 5/27/09: The Pattern and More. I learned a valuable lesson the last few days of my trip (I am sitting here at DIA waiting for my plane as I type this). I realize that most severe storm researchers here are looking ahead to a possible pattern shift, and what's happened in Colorado the last few days may not seem important. But there's something odd about this pattern that we are in. Perhaps it relates to global warming, perhaps not. Suppose another time the anchor was in a different location,...
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TornadoBlog.org: Tragic Loss of Three Colleagues....May 31, 2013
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Jun 4, 2013. Tragic Loss of Three Colleagues.May 31, 2013. L to R) Tim Samaras, Paul Samaras and Carl Young. By now, all have heard the appalling news that storm researchers Tim Samaras, his son Paul, and Carl Young lost their lives while studying the tornadic supercell thunderstorm that struck the Oklahoma City area on Friday May 31, 2013. And some of these people engage in foolhardy and dangerous behavior. The question is “why? From my perspective, as a professor of meteorology, the term “storm c...
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TornadoBlog.org: May 22, 2013: Down Days Coming and Early Exit
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May 22, 2013. May 22, 2013: Down Days Coming and Early Exit. Thom and I are in Wichita Falls after a day in north-central Texas. Although there looks to be a supercell-favoring pattern tomorrow (May 23) in northwest TX and the southern TX Panhandle, I've decided to return home with Thom, who has get back due to family issues (good ones, though). This will be the last active log, and I will now concentrate on trying to get some pictures up for our productive days, mostly May 18 and 19. The damaging tornad...
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TornadoBlog.org: April 2012
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Apr 29, 2012. Well, here comes storm season in a rush. Yes, there have been tornadoes already, but there has not been an extended period of patterns that suggest that storm observing opportunities would be continuous day after day. That appears to be in the offing for the next week or so. But that is "now", and what Thom and I are concerned about is "then". The "then" is our chase trip, which is now scheduled 18 May through 1 June for me (although Thom comes back about five days before). We've prereserve...
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TornadoBlog.org: June 2013
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Jun 4, 2013. Tragic Loss of Three Colleagues.May 31, 2013. L to R) Tim Samaras, Paul Samaras and Carl Young. By now, all have heard the appalling news that storm researchers Tim Samaras, his son Paul, and Carl Young lost their lives while studying the tornadic supercell thunderstorm that struck the Oklahoma City area on Friday May 31, 2013. And some of these people engage in foolhardy and dangerous behavior. The question is “why? From my perspective, as a professor of meteorology, the term “storm c...
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TornadoBlog.org: Storm Retrospective: Kinsley/Rozel Tornadoes, May 18, 2013
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May 25, 2013. Storm Retrospective: Kinsley/Rozel Tornadoes, May 18, 2013. The storm that eventually produced at least two major tornadoes near Rozel, KS formed southwest of Kinsley, KS at around 6:45 PM CDT. The storm immediately had a bell shaped lowering (see image to bottom center). Within in a few minutes it had a very good visual appearance with a rain core out to its northeast and something like an RFD cut developing too. Arrow indicates approximate path of what we think. West of Kinsley KS. Owered...
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TornadoBlog.org: May 2013
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May 25, 2013. Storm Retrospective: Kinsley/Rozel Tornadoes, May 18, 2013. The storm that eventually produced at least two major tornadoes near Rozel, KS formed southwest of Kinsley, KS at around 6:45 PM CDT. The storm immediately had a bell shaped lowering (see image to bottom center). Within in a few minutes it had a very good visual appearance with a rain core out to its northeast and something like an RFD cut developing too. Arrow indicates approximate path of what we think. West of Kinsley KS. Owered...