2007 Storm Chase Logs

Storm Chase Logs2007 Storm Chase Logs
 TOTAL MILES: 33,934
 TOTAL CHASES: 30
 TOTAL TORNADOES  24
 TORNADO DAYS: 12
 TORNADO AVG: 0.400
 TOTAL SPOTTER: 27
 TOTAL ALL LOGS: 57
 1K CHASES: 10

Chase Log: October 13, 2007

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Northeast Colorado
Chase Miles:
155
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
Hail:
0.75"
Flooding:
None Observed

Chase Log: August 31, 2007

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Northeast Colorado
Chase Miles:
13
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
Hail:
None
Flooding:
None Observed

Chase Log: May 23, 2007

Full Write-Up
Texas Panhandle
Chase Miles:
899
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
Hail:
1.00"
Flooding:
None Observed

Chase Log: May 22, 2007

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Northern Kansas
Chase Miles:
545
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
Hail:
1.00"
Flooding:
Rural Road Flooding

Chase Log: May 14, 2007

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Northeast Colorado
Chase Miles:
527
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
Hail:
1.75"
Flooding:
Urban/River Flooding

Chase Log: May 4, 2007

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Northern Kansas
Chase Miles:
576
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
Hail:
None
Flooding:
None Observed

Chase Log: May 3, 2007

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Northeast Colorado
Chase Miles:
267
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
Hail:
1.00
Flooding:
None Observed

Chase Log: April 24, 2007

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Central Kansas
Chase Miles:
874
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
Hail:
None
Flooding:
None Observed

Chase Log: April 23, 2007

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Southern Kansas
Chase Miles:
522
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
Hail:
None
Flooding:
None Observed

Chase Log: April 13, 2007

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Northwest Texas
Chase Miles:
1,270
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
Hail:
2.50"
Flooding:
Minor Urban

Chase Log: April 12, 2007

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Texas Panhandle
Chase Miles:
798
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
Hail:
None
Flooding:
None Observed

Chase Log: February 23, 2007

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Texas Panhandle
Chase Miles:
1,251
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
Hail:
0.50"
Flooding:
None Observed