Storms of 2011
These are my accounts of my storm chases from the 2011 storm season.
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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.
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Amazing images from July 11, 2011
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Spur of the moment trip to Kalamazoo at midnight. Storms developed just to the south of Grand Rapids, and were moving SSE away from me. I thought I should stay home but seeing some good bolts come out of the top of the storms hooked me and I went south. As I drove, low level clouds obscured my view of any bolts. I wound up having to drive all the way to Schoolcraft, MI just to finally get a good view. These images are my image account of this night. The flashes were continuous but the bolts that were far and few between from the back side of the storm. I was not sure if it was worth getting home at 2am. But after reviewing my images I would say it was semi-worth it.
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Lightning at the South Haven Michigan pier. Great colors.
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After waiting all afternoon for the storms to develop this evening I was treated to some nice lightning off my porch here in Grand Rapids. I was blessed to capture the following sequence of images. I feel that these are some of the best lightning shot I have taken from this spot (the porch). Hope there will be more chances before win$%#@ gets here. I best not swear.
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Kurt
