An incredible end to today with beautiful storm structure, unique scenery, and more rotations than we could count. Tomorrow is a new day- where will the winds take us next?
This was one of the sharpest, prettiest and most textbook RFDs I have seen. I genuinely enjoyed this vantage point as much as I did the tornado intercept.
After our morning forecast discussion, the crew is setting up for a late show today in southern South Dakota and playing our favorite game: Will storms initiate to our east or west? Which environment is most favorable?
We'll stay put until we have a better idea!
Winner South Dakota Tornado today. Mixed in some real time and 8x time to help show it. Also added some of the amazing structure in at the end. Watch over on youtube for higher quality
BANG! Major #tornado intercept in the Dominator F150 blew out the window!
Dangerous tornado to intercept given the rain-wrapping. This was a classic vigorous South Dakota supercell
#stormchasing
Today, we held our forecast in the vans today, as we have some worries about early initiation times, and we want to arrive in time. We are targeting western South Dakota today!
A bit frustrating day for @OswegoChasers as storms took awhile to get going, but we launched a sounding used by @NWSSPC , met with the @DOWFacility fine folks, saw lots of neat cloudscapes including KH waves, supercell structure, and funnel clouds (3) in #SDwx@sunyoswego
Today was slightly uneventful - convection failed throughout most of the day, which we speculate was due to the lack of lower level shear. However, we did have a brief supercell that produced a funnel (possibly). Also nice to see fellow chasers and DOW-8 folks. Onto tomorrow!
Phenomenal day for @OswegoChasers ! Multiple funnel clouds, great supercell structures, likely tornado (funnel cloud with ground circulation), rainbow, mammatus at sunset, sun rays. Thank you, #COwx@sunyoswego
After much discussion over significant model disagreement and conditional setups- the crew is headed to Colorado to be ready for today's storm initiation! On the way, we were treated by a dying storm with beautiful, ghostly structure ...