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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