Ian Sean Livingston
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"Storm Chase ’11"
Watch as the South Dakota storm from May 9, 2011 gathers and becomes tornadic. Footage from near The Badlands to near Philip, SD.
14.5 hours from St Clair, MO later, I have returned back home. No visual tornadoes, but still one hell of a time.
We’re on the road in central Kansas watching things unfold this morning as perhaps our best shot to catch a tornado on film comes today.
We got on our first active tornado warned storm of the trip, and it produced a tornado. Poor visibility and lack of light kept us from seeing it, but it was likely very close.
Today we go hunting for tornadoes in the South Dakota area. And a brief recap of the non-event in Nebraska yesterday.
We’re in Nebraska today, looking for some supercells and maybe a tornado if we’re lucky.
We traveled about 7 hours for our first storms since the ride out here, and we lucked out by finding the only one to get severe warned in the region.
Desperation setting in? Ha! Maybe…
The Storm Prediction Center has “see texted” the west Texas region as a dryline begins to form over the area today. This feature, increasing instability, and an eventual mid-level trough passage all mentioned yesterday, promise to at least give us some weather to see [...]
More Plains sunshine sent us to Wakita to check out where Twister was filmed.
Three days of sunshine in Tornado Alley in may can knock a chaser down. The outlook going forward is a hopeful one though.
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- It appears the battle against HDR is being lost. Will have to pretend staking 10 images to make something surreal is powerful work. 2 hours ago
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