June 21, 2011, brought severe storms to Michigan that developed right along the lake shore with an initial supercell. I had to use some archived video from my chasertv stream as I was not recording to tape. So the small frame is of the FLV archive. This video starts with a time lapse of the initial supercell. Before I reposition, it produces 2 mid level funnels near the vault region of the cell. I zoom in briefly but had to move due to oncoming traffic. Second scene is of the cell organizing with some classic/HP supercell structure fairly descent for MI which is time lapsed near Hudsonville. I later enter the north side of Hudsonville and encounter some outflow inflow wind interactions. I observed a semi-vertical white funnel that lasted for a brief time (time lapsed). There was rotation evident as scud clouds merry-go-round in a centralized area as a tail cloud formed to the North East. Shortly after a brief small funnel protrudes (in real time). The final scene is a mile or two SE and I watch a semi rotating wall cloud continue to develop and even produce a 20-30 second cone funnel. I zoomed in on this area and played it in time-lapse mode half time and then restrung the clip in full 10x time-lapse. After this, the storm goes completely outflow dominate.
have not had much time to write forecast information and detailed write ups with my chases this year. Life gets busy being a dad.
Here are the latest pics from the latest chases from May-June 5th.
May 28, 2011: Litchfield IL. Elevated supercell and hail fog.
May 29, 2011: Olivet MI, Storm aftermath damage.
June 4, 2011: IL and IN storm chase lots of lightning
June 5, 2011: Choudrant/Ruston LA
June 7, 2011: Chased a marginally severe cluster of storms East of Monroe, LA. Caught some cool downbursts and deadly lightning in Rayville, LA.
Caught the funnel that produced the Burnips, MI, tornado rated an EF0. Was unable to capture video because I was to busy making a report to the NWS and WOODTV8. After that storm passed over me i dropped south without any internet and caught the storm coming through Kalamazoo. It had some nice structure and rotation. As I drove through Richland, MI, I encountered a hail core of quarters to ping pong size hail, covering the ground. I caught some video of this but it was way to shaky to even bother putting in this report. The storm then became tornado warned and my GPS went on the fritz. I could not restart my computer and had to stop and regroup. By the time I was able to get things back online the rotation had passed just over head and I followed the cell until it was evident it was in its dying phase near Woodbury on M-66 and M-50.
The first day of spring in 2011 and we officially had our first thunder storms here in Michigan. I was not expecting much but I was happy to capture at least one shot of lightning.
