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August 12, 2010 Bellingham MN Supercell Nice structured supercell with persistent reforming funnel that will not touch down, other than enough to get leaves in the air evidently, as Tyler and I kept seeing them fall. I then see a tornado but don't get video of it thanks to trees. Then near Appleton, it's a rotating beast that refuses to form a tornado other than ground wisp things. Surely the most bizarre deal I've seen that won't form a tornado. On and on you were sure you'd get one, but no. I have no account for this chase on the site.
December 11, 2010 western Iowa blizzard Next up is an odd clipper snow storm/blizzard. It didn't drop much snow but boy did the winds crank up in the western Iowa area. Probably the worst day time blizzarding I've been out in. Winds over 60mph with temps around 10F. It's a pretty cool part of the video, just how damn intense it was. Bending the door hinges in the wind, making the door unable to close, made things interesting for a while. Because you jam 10F air with snow in the vehicle, one not moving so not that warm to begin with(as air flowing that fast it thinks it is moving/keeps it cooler) and pretty soon you can't see out of the windows of the car and can't clear them. You couldn't see to begin with and that issue made it stupid. I would have surely required a ride home from someone else if I couldn't fix that door. Anyway, it's a fun section of the video. You can get an idea how intense it was on the intro video above.
Spring 2011 1.3 Million Snow Goose Migration - Squaw Creek I got about this many geese there in 2009 and it is on the older video. But this time around was different, got some wild shots up at them, as they circle down in mass, coming back from eating. It's wild to watch them in so many layers, all trying to come down to the water. If you watch close you can see them flop over and dive bomb a couple hundred feet instantly. Looks like they must see a bigger opening, so they do that and get further on down. And the 2009 time is not on blu-ray. Blu-ray really shows off this spectacle. It's hard enough to get this big of number to show up at the refuge 2 hours from home. Then you gotta be there when it's maxed out. But I don't gather this level of numbers concentrates in such a small area at one time anywhere else on the planet. It's not a huge body of water there and over a million snow geese is hard to comprehend without being there. Cause one tight shot of a ton, really is nothing compared to how big of an area outside that shot is exactly the same scene and concentration.
Spring 2011 Red Wing Black Bird Migration - Squaw Creek This is at the end of the snow geese section on the video. It's my next goal I guess, to get more video of the red wing black bird tornadoes. I have some of it on video and watch and you'll gather the potential there is with it. First year I learned their routine there and saw it like this. So crazy, but I don't have a ton on video. Both the geese and these are bizarre to say the least.
April 9, 2011 Mapleton Iowa Storm and Night Tornadoes Fast storm speed and huge chaser numbers pretty much means if you want to see things, stay ahead of the crowd. Did that and was well ahead of the storm where we stopped 1 mile east of Mapleton and let it approach. It didn't look quite ready yet and people were showing up and wanting to chit chat. I could hear them talking to Steve behind me and knew I'd be next if I didn't just move again. So I moved east again to stay ahead of things. So did Steve. A wild guess, had they not started to chit chat right then, we'd have both stayed there a bit longer. 3 more minutes and we'd have seen the tornado starting. But no, by then we were a few miles east again and had no clue a tornado was in there. You can see it on video, barely. It's pretty interesting just how hard that tornado was to see from the east much. So that is on there, none of the night stuff is on there as we screwed that up too. If you want to see how cloaked Mapleton was from a few miles due east or ene even, you'll want this video lol.
May 12, 2011 Operation Hailcore, Whiting Iowa This began my hail mission for the year. Actually I was in hail on Mapleton chase too. I'm pretty darn sure I was in hail EVERY chase this year...minus the couple busts obviously. Several chases not video worthy, or even site worthy, I also was in hail, some decent. Joplin day/storm got me pretty good. Others too. But it should become apparent on the video I wasn't trying to avoid the ol hail core lol. All of these on here I'm in hail. Except I guess what I included of the first one from last year. I know I was in hail that day too. This one in nw IA I did a core in northeast NE first. I then found 3 inch stones cracking my windshield in northwest Iowa. It's fairly bizarre in this somewhat cold core environment this storm was dropping big hail. It seemed you had maybe a half mile window on the far east side of the core to get these. Then it would go to much smaller stones. The small width of that was pretty odd. Hell a half mile width might be a stretch. My stills of the hail this day are 30+ minutes after they fell, when I came back to the area to look for some.
May 23, 2011 Meno Oklahoma Supercell Then Mammatus Had a decent supercell May 21 in NE and some more big hail but didn't include it on here. Also was under the storm that popped up and went into Joplin the next day on the 22nd that was dropping about baseballs soon as it went up. Not on here either. But then on the 23rd was on a decent supercell in Meno OK playing in hail again. Mammatus would later steal the show.
June 19, 2011 McCook Nebraska Supercell This section is actually fairly short. Some of the supercell intercept north of McCook...in hail again. Then timelapse of day supercell east of town. Then some night stills time lapse fun of the truly bizarre night supercell structure, the tsunami in the sky storm. Probably be a while till I see that crazy and odd of night storm structure again. Fairly surprised they merged in the evening like they did(big shelf plowing south into the one behind it) and yet managed to stay a supercell after that through the night, all the way across southern Nebraska. Thought for sure as they merged the way they did a big bow would be all that was to be seen after that.
June 20, 2011 Bradshaw Nebraska Tornado I think the longest chase on the video. In hail again as this tornado forms due south of me. I got some video of the storm goings on up to that point and some funnels and probable tornado. The sight straight up as it moved across this highway was just awesome. With the tornado crossing maybe a half mile down the road, the cone aloft area is about directly overhead. One of the few times I've heard a tornado. Damn that stupid tree line though. I'd just moved west of it before this all unfolded to get a view then. Then when this happened, by the time I noticed the tree line would be an issue, it was moving behind it already. I had such a wonderful view up the rest of it and it was moving fast, I didn't figure moving was a good choice at that point. For a good chunk of the beginning, wasn't sure it was even going to miss where I was yet. Anyway, it was cool and then had wild white whipping vortices after it was north of the highway. It would have been soooo amazing had it been in that form when it crossed here. I have little luck with cool stages of tornadoes being when they are crossing highways I'm on. Closer intercept happens then they get wild. Or I'd just moved then they form and I think they'll be sweet and mature as they move closer to where I already am. Then they dink around till they are past my spot and into no roads area. Arrghh. Cool chase anyway.
Gavins Point Dam Doubling the 50+ year record release rate. Really, just how bizarre is that fact. 50+ years with the top rate release being 70,000 cubic feet per second. How does one end up more than doubling a long standing record. I mean it's not doubling an average, it's doubling a 50+ year record. Needless to say, one may never see that degree of water gushing out of the dam again in their lifetime. So yeah I figured that was worth including! Talk about intense water. Someone said the gates were open 8 feet high. It seems it would have to be something like that, judging by just how angry that water was. You fall in there and you're done. It would be wildly angry, then it'd have spurts of silly angry. Like it couldn't get out of there fast enough. You'd see these fast outward surges, then boom the water goes up the wall. Eventually they closed the area it was waving over. I got soaked more than once trying to get that wave shot. Somehow deleted all but one. Both my video camera and my rebel failed that day, thanks to getting wet lol.
July 4, 2011 Bugnadoes Ummmm, yeah another thing I'll never see again in my lifetime to this degree...and fitting of "bizarre". Thanks to the widespread flooding we had a lot of bugs....errrrr a LOT of bugs. At least around the edge of the flooded areas. You'd see the tree-tops "smoking" with bugs. Then often small streams around the ditches. But one time going over there looking for these, I found the mother load. Then that mother load of bugs formed the most silly bugnado vortex ever. It stayed put in one spot and just kept changing sizes right there in front of me, for minutes on end. I went over again and again trying to match that and never came remotely close. Something you won't see on other chaser videos lol. Tornadoes, birdnadoes, and bugnadoes. An EF5 of bugnadoes.
August 18, 2011 Ewing Nebraska Tornado The other longer section on the video. Been a while since I got a nice tornado bag in north central NE in the summer. Oh yeah and continued the hail encounter too, adding new cracks. This was a cool evolution as the supercell wanted two entities to rotate, which doesn't work well for tornadoes. Lead area pushes under trailing area and doesn't usually allow it to balance out enough and tornado. It finally happens though, with a fairly big tornado fairly close. It was getting pretty close fast though, as it seemed to get flung east at us not long after it formed. For the longest time before it condensed down, you could see the big bowl with tornadic looking rain bands below it. Then after it and its left over rotating rain bands cross the road nearby, a new base forms ahead of it. That had wild rfd cascading action and a weak tornado cross right in front of us. Would have figured it was a gustnado till looking up and seeing a funnel half way down racing over us(anticyclonic thing on the other side of the rfd slot that we were under). Then it became a big massive updraft structure from the backside, trying to slam down around and to the ground. Cool to note it has convective structure but is clearly going down and right hard. Did some useful 4x timelapses on this storms evolution on here.
2011 Still Photos I just about didn't put a photo section on it. Last minute threw some from 2011 on there.