2007 Storm Chase Logs

2007 Season Statistics
TOTAL MILES:
33,934
TOTAL CHASES:
33
TOTAL TORNADOES:
24
TORNADO DAYS:
12
TORNADO AVERAGE:
0.364
TOTAL SPOTTER LOGS:
24
TOTAL ALL LOGS:
57
1K CHASES:
10
2007 Chase Logs

2007 Statistics
TOTAL MILES:
33,934
TOTAL CHASES:
33
TOTAL TORNADOES:
24
TORNADO DAYS:
12
TORNADO AVERAGE:
0.364
TOTAL SPOTTER LOGS:
24
TOTAL ALL LOGS:
57
1K CHASES:
10
Chase Log: October 13, 2007
Northeast Colorado (155 miles)
I intercepted a chilly, late-season Colorado pea-hailer that looked more like a snowstorm than a hailstorm and certainly felt more like one, too!
• TORNADOES: None
• MAX HAIL: 0.75"
• FLOODING: Observed
• Lightning Imagery: Not Captured
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Chase Log: August 31, 2007
Northeast Colorado (13 miles)
Our 'Lightning Net' activated once again and it lead to a nice little score in Lakewood with a handful of good (albeit slightly out of focus) shots.
• TORNADOES: None
• MAX HAIL: None
• FLOODING: Observed
• Lightning Imagery: Captured
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Chase Log: May 23, 2007
Texas Panhandle (899 miles)
TWISTEX team intercepted two tornadoes east of Lake Fryer in Ochiltree County, Texas while trying to gather hail data on an HP storm.
• TORNADOES: 2
• MAX HAIL: 1.00"
• FLOODING: Observed
• Lightning Imagery: Not Captured
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Chase Log: May 22, 2007
Northern Kansas (545 miles)
TWISTEX crews intercepted a tornado southwest of Hill City, Kansas and got into some hail before hijinks at a drive-thru later in the evening.
• TORNADOES: 1
• MAX HAIL: 1.00"
• FLOODING: Observed
• Lightning Imagery: Not Captured
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Chase Log: May 14, 2007
Northeast Colorado (527 miles)
Started the day in the Black Hills and ended the day in the White Hail of Colorado; bigtime hailer with urban flooding aftermath.
• TORNADOES: None
• MAX HAIL: 1.75"
• FLOODING: Observed
• Lightning Imagery: Not Captured
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Chase Log: May 4, 2007
Northern Kansas (576 miles)
On a historic evening in the history of tornadoes, a bunch of us on I-70 elected to NOT involve ourselves with the Greensburg tornado and opted to shoot lightning instead.
• TORNADOES: None
• MAX HAIL: None
• FLOODING: Observed
• Lightning Imagery: Not Captured
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Chase Log: May 3, 2007
Northeast Colorado (267 miles)
Gustnado-fest in northeast Colorado with one landspout mixed in for good measure. Intercepted some nighttime hail near Ft. Morgan to wrap the dusty day.
• TORNADOES: 1
• MAX HAIL: 1.00
• FLOODING: Observed
• Lightning Imagery: Not Captured
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Chase Log: April 24, 2007
Central Kansas (874 miles)
On a chase that featured my first ever probe deployment mission with Tim Samaras, our group saw three birdfart tornadoes in central Kansas.
• TORNADOES: 3
• MAX HAIL: None
• FLOODING: Observed
• Lightning Imagery: Not Captured
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Chase Log: April 23, 2007
Southern Kansas (522 miles)
This was my first ever chase with Tim Samaras! We departed Denver the morning of and drove to southern Kansas where we intercepted a needle-nado outside Protection.
• TORNADOES: 1
• MAX HAIL: None
• FLOODING: Observed
• Lightning Imagery: Not Captured
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Chase Log: April 13, 2007
Northwest Texas (1,270 miles)
A high risk day that would've busted, except we took the bait on a sucker storm early on and witnessed the biggest, and one of the only tornadoes of the event.
• TORNADOES: 1
• MAX HAIL: 2.50"
• FLOODING: Observed
• Lightning Imagery: Not Captured
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Chase Log: April 12, 2007
Texas Panhandle (798 miles)
The day-before-the-day lightning surprise in the southern Texas Panhandle as we followed some slow moving storms til dark where they put on an amazing show and offered up some great lightning.
• TORNADOES: None
• MAX HAIL: None
• FLOODING: Observed
• Lightning Imagery: Captured
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Chase Log: February 23, 2007
Texas Panhandle (1,251 miles)
An eventful early season trip into the Texas Panhandle that yielded my very first February tornado and a crazy dust storm on the way home the next day.
• TORNADOES: 1
• MAX HAIL: 0.50"
• FLOODING: Observed
• Lightning Imagery: Not Captured
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