Saturday, June 21, 2008

NW Iowa 9/30/07

this was kindof a fun chase! i figured it would be the last chase of the season and it was(for me at least). i headed up north on I-29 midafternoon and stopped at the Winnebago Casino in Sloan, Iowa waiting for things to pop. Well that basically happened over the top of me. All the sudden there was nickel sized hail falling and the winds were blowing about 40-45 mph. I started heading east into Iowa trying to stay south of the developing E-W line, but had to drive into one of the cells where i experienced quarter sized hail. it was kind of frustrating though bc each time i caught up to one cell the next one 15 miles ahead would have a tornado warning on it. so i saw no tornadoes(still) but saw some pretty cool structure and mamatus clouds




towers going up in the parking lot at the casino


cell looking ne from the casino


mamatus clouds


quarter sized hail


anvil and large towers going up facing east


more large towers and overshooting anvil


beautiful mamatus clouds over wind generators


Wednesday, June 18, 2008

1st post

So I don't know how often I will post on this, as the main reason I have set it up was to post my storm chasing photos, but we'll see I guess. Today I started my internship at Action 3 News here in Omaha. It should be very interesting and today CT(my supervisor) already had me in front of the camera practicing! It was pretty nervewracking, even though there was noone else there watching. Tomorrow(actually this morning) will be my second day as I learn more of the processes that go into making a morning news weathercast.