IanM
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Yep, we use a 'feels like' temperature on all the forecast pages.
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More from today in Nick's latest blog update
http://forum.netweather.tv/blog/349/entry-4785-stormchase-2014-south-dakota-tornadoes/
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South Dakota finally delivered for Paul and the team on Tour 4!
'Ok so todays Aim was to try and get my 1st ever South Dakota Tornado, would not have mnded if it was a 2014 Edition Birdfart, but what happened was the 3rd amazing day in a row for the Northern High Plains with once again 2 Tornadoes on the ground at the same time. Targeted Chamberlain to Huron and watched the Cold Front to our North not really paying much attention to it, when the bottom storm started to turn right we were 20 miles from it so went straight north up Highway 15, we positioned east down some fantastic dirt roads and saw our first Tornado which was a Multi Vortex at about 630pm. After dodging some insane Cg Bolts more dirt roads were needed to get to the small town of Lane. I sat in the hook with intense rotation just to our South, what would be the big tornado of the day touched down about 1 mile to our south, this was heading straight at us so we repositioned east a half mile, the tornado then fully condensed into a cone and crossed the road a few hundreds yards back, while this was happening another rope tornado was in a field to our south showering us with leaves and bit of trees. We repositioned to catch up with the now large white cone tornado near Wassington Springs and watched a magnificant rope out stage. I apologise now to Arron as the 2 videos I am about to link could end our friendship forever.12 Pictures all in order as they happened and 2 Videos shot by Richard.'And I love this one from RichardThere are probably more photos and videos to come from another incredible chase day!
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Paul's already hit the road to get in position for todays risk, and it's a set up that could add to the 13 tornadoes already seen in the last 2 days chasing.
Will Paul break his South Dakota duck - 106 tornadoes seen, none of them in SD
As he said earlier - 'Waking up in yet another 10% Tornado Risk in Sioux City, surely lightning cant strike for a 3rd time today ? Will be on it and under it chasing hard yet again later on.'
The main risk area covers north east Nebraska, the south east of SD and over into north west Iowa, as shown on the SPC Tornado Outlook
Good chasing to you guys, try to save some twisters for next year!
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And here's Nick's blog from yesterday, you can follow his updates each day too
http://forum.netweather.tv/blog/349/entry-4783-stormchase-2014-the-night-of-the-twisters/
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And this one from Monday, near Pilger
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Thanks to Richard for these videos from the last couple of days too
This one from near Coleridge yesterday - that's a wedge tornado that's nearly a mile wide!
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This is one of the storms that chased us back to Childress last night, it's been another amzing tour, great people, huge storms and many laughs along the way. Today we head for DFW, and a slight risk of damaging winds, large hail and tornadoes chasing the planes off the runway...
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The last days chasing for Tour 3 - hopefully a good one to bow out on and we can enjoy a sundowner or two while storms roll by later before the last hop to DFW tomorrow!
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A few more pics from the day, including a 15 shot pano that still couldn't quite fit in all of the stack of plates.
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A bit of downtime today, and a slight chance of some Kansan storms tomorrow. But today is about travelling to Norman and swapping the cars around.
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We nearly lost Tom today
And there was a little bit of water in the Palo Duro as we toured the canyon roads
Oh, and the canyon still looks as good as you'd expect the 2nd largest in the USA
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It was going to be a down day with no real action within 700 miles, sods law that just after we rebooked our rooms the SPC issued an update and bumped the risk for western Kansas, just a quick 3 hour hop up the road.
Paul will have more details once we are on the way,
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I finally had enough time to test out a roof cam and then sit down and edit a video - which I still need some practice at...It could do with a soundtrack, and there's a slightly dodgy bit in the middle, but check out the movement, rotation and sheer size of this cell, plus the short lived tornado at the end - an awesome days chasing!
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Possibly, though there was a brief power outage just after we arrived
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After a few aborted targets. A gust front that accelerated as we watched it slide over us and no chance to take lightning photos. We have ended up at the Big Texan just before closing, with a flash flood alert to greet us as the gust front hit and the heavens opened.
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A quick tex mex lunch on Route 66 and SPC have issued a tornado watch for our area. Gassing up and waiting to plot our next move.
New Mexico is rapidly becoming one of my favourite states. Chilli and storms, I could live here.
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I know I said the hail was the last one, but this gives an idea of the structure as it's 2am and I've not had time to play with it much - the biggest mothership stack of plates I've seen, I officially need a wider lens...
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Thanks Dallas. We fixed the internet issues and its stood up really well today. Great timing...
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Yeah. So these came out of nowhere...
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Another couple straight out the camera
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Some awesome pics and vids to share later. This has been called in as a weak tornado and we were there to see it!
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Sat near the NM border having lunch al fresco. After a quick test drive we know the signal dies just a mile to west, which is where the storms are. Hopefully we'll pick it up a bit further into New Mexico
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Nearly forgot this. For the first time ever my phone sounded the warning sirens and advised me to run and hide.
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Into The Storm - don't just watch it, live it!
in Latest weather updates from Netweather
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As 'Into The Storm' rolls into cinemas this week, why not do it for real next year and join us chasing in the USA?
View the full blog entry here