Storms of 2006

Shots from October

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Shots from September

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Andrew Khan and I chased several times in IL in late June. We met up with Fabian Gurrea, who had passed away in 2009. RIP

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Andrew Khan and I chased in North west and central Kansas this day. Witnessed a brief funnel north of Hill City. It was quickly undercut by outflow. We then headed south toward Scott City and witnessed a nice shelf cloud and several fast moving supercells.

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Andrew Khan and I chased a elevated slow moving supercell in the Black HIlls, Bad land region of South Dakota. Very picturesque

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Andrew Khan and I chased, near Gillet, MT and NE MT. We missed the major supercell of this day but caught several storms, some nice mammatus, quarter size hail, and a lightning show in ND

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I met up with Steve Miller (TX), and Dave Fick, in the Texas Panhandle. We chased Near Elk City, OK. This day. Witnessed a supercell that wanted to tornado but never managed to get its act together. There was some good structure and lots of lightning.

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Storms near Perry, Oklahoma.

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Bismarck, North Dakota. Today Nick Grillo, David Diehl, Dan Robinson, David Drauin, Fabian G., Eric Fletcher, and some others caravaned and caught an HP supercell and then at the end of the chase another illuminous LP supercell

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SE Missouri: Today Nick Grillo, David Diehl, Dan Robinson, David Drauin, Fabian G., Eric Fletcher, and some others caravaned together. We caught classic transition to HP supercell. Overall a pretty good chase just no tornadoes.

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Today Nick Grillo, David Diehl, Dan Robinson, David Drauin, Fabian G., Eric Fletcher, Pete McConnel, and some others caravaned together. Caught some severe storms in Nebraska and Kansas.

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Quick Illinois chase. I went to St. Louise and crossed back over the MS river into IL. I almost got stuck in the mud. I captured some nice structure and lightning.

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Met up with Nick Grillo, Dick McGowen, Darin Brunin and several others. We chased Oklahoma this day after pretty much a big bust in Kansas the day before.
There was the possibility of a brief spin up. So if there was we witnessed it and this was the only tornado that I witnessed in 2006

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My wife and I intercepted a supercell near Havana IL. Witnesses several funnels but never a confirmed touchdown.

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I headed to Champagne IL. Where I found I was in an area for an MD which turned into a tornado watch. I new I needed to head to Springfield. I didn’t want to go all the way to Springfield because there was already convection, With storm motions upwards of 50mph. Well needless to say I still wound up momentarily behind the leading line. I hit 104 south of Springfield and headed east toward Taylorville. It was very hard to get ahead of this line. Just north of Taylorville I found a route that bypassed the town and the line caught up with me again. I would estimate wind speeds of 60-65 mph. Defiantly had me on my toes with my butt puckered as 100ft telephone poles to the right were swaying like crazy. But I found my route to my south east on 29. Andrew Khan had called me and told me there was a TVS and some meso rings on the cell I was after. And then It was tornado warned. First tornado warning of 2006. I was about 10 miles or less north of Puna when I was coming out of the whales mouth.

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