Chase Log: May 24, 2010

Northern SD/Southern ND

CHASE VEHICLE:

CHASE PARTNERS:

Ed Grubb

MILES DRIVEN:

891

TORNADOES SEEN:

9

MAX HAIL SEEN:

None

FLOODING SEEN:

None Observed

DAMAGE OBSERVED:

None Observed
Tony Laubach
Tony Laubach
Meteorologist & Storm Chaser

Still working on the numbers, but the unofficial count is about 9-10; half in South Dakota and the other half in North Dakota!  In fact, these were my FIRST North Dakota tornadoes, so I can officially knock that state from my list.  The best part, I only had to poke my head in about 15 miles to get them!

I am rendering out the raw videos from both the Bison, SD tornadoes as well as the Adams County, North Dakota videos.  Both should be up at some point tomorrow.  Below are a few stills, captioned below..

The start of the Bison, SD tornado; this was AFTER the “Faith” tornado.
The main tornado (foreground) and a smaller, brief tornado southeast of it.
The main tornado at its wedge/large cone point southeast of Bison.
A bad screen grab of a multi-vortex tornado spinning up as the main tornado was to its east.
My VERY FIRST North Dakota Tornado! Taken from ND-49 looking west about 10 N of the border.
Stove-pipe tornado spinning up behind the hill along ND-49; disappeared before we crested, so this was best still.
Multi-vortex tornado crossing west-to-east across ND-49 looking north.

[youTubeHD]HN94Bj_9ewo[/youTubeHD]

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What I Observed/Documented

TORNADOES:

9

MAX HAIL:

None

FLOODING:

None Observed

DAMAGE:

None Observed

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