Jump to content
Lightning map 7 day forecast Weather Radar Will it be hot?
Lightning
Local
Radar
Hot?
IGNORED

Day 2 Report & Pictures

Paul Sherman

By Paul Sherman
in Storm Chase USA

Recommended Posts

Paul Sherman Veteran

Paul Sherman

Posted
  • Location: Leigh On Sea - Essex & Tornado Alley
  • Location: Leigh On Sea - Essex & Tornado Alley
Posted

May 1st was a great Chase day for the Netweather Chase Team and we saw our 1st Supercell of the trip. We blasted south from our overnight position of decatur and chose a target of Lampassas. Grabbed Lunch and the 1st and only storm of the day innitiated about 50 miles to our North weat moving towards us. We blasted west on Highway 29 towards Llano, the Supercell was now just to the North of us, we had a great south road option and let this slow moving beast follow us, we then had a great chase on red dirt roads and through creeks of standing water. Stopped sporadically on the way and saw ragged Wall clouds and areas of rotation, the College of Du Page tour bus rolled along and at one point about 30 people were on a tiny Texas road in Gillespie County.

We finally moved towards Frederickburg and shot Lightning before eating at Chillis for a well deserved Beer and Fajitas. One funny point in the trip was when we were watching a Wall Cloud and suddenly Ian shouted "Yes" we thought a Tornado was on the ground only to be told Liverpool had just beaten Chelsea

Photos

post-24-1178129761_thumb.jpg - Supercell FFD Approaching us with Softball Hail about 3 miles North

post-24-1178129815_thumb.jpg - College Du Page Storm Bus

post-24-1178129853_thumb.jpg - Hail core approaching

post-24-1178129911_thumb.jpg - Supercell Base

post-24-1178129952_thumb.jpg - Group watching their 1st ever Supercell

Lightning Photos @ Fredericksburg

post-24-1178129309_thumb.jpg

post-24-1178129343_thumb.jpg

post-24-1178129368_thumb.jpg

post-24-1178129396_thumb.jpg

I also have some amazing Video of this storm and Nathan has Timelapse of a rotating Meso. We will put these up on our down day tomorrow.

Paul Sherman

  • Replies 27
  • Created
  • Last Reply
Anti-Mild Contributor

Anti-Mild

Posted
  • Location: Norton, Stockton-on-Tees
  • Weather Preferences: Snow and cold in winter, warm and sunny in summer
  • Location: Norton, Stockton-on-Tees
Posted

Nice photos Paul, particularly the supercell base and the lightning pics!

Keep it up mate!

Greyowl Rookie

Greyowl

Posted
  • Location: Cambridgeshire Fens. 3m ASL
  • Location: Cambridgeshire Fens. 3m ASL
Posted

Great pics. The first of many hopefully.

Mad Murdoch Rookie

Mad Murdoch

Posted
  • Location: Isle of wight
  • Location: Isle of wight
Posted

great pictures, the lightening looks amazing.

So whos who on the group one.

Rustynailer Aficionado

Rustynailer

Posted
  • Location: Western Isle of Wight
  • Weather Preferences: Snow, Storm, anything loud and dramatic.
  • Location: Western Isle of Wight
Posted

Excellent i am glad you are seeing what you went for, look forward to more reports and pictures.

Regards,

Russ.

NL Aficionado

NL

Posted
  • Location: South Shields Tyne & Wear half mile from the coast.
  • Location: South Shields Tyne & Wear half mile from the coast.
Posted

Amazing lightning shots, like ya vehicle too!!

Here's the ariel shots of those storms.

courtesy of Olivier Staiger..

Supacell Veteran

Supacell

Posted
  • Location: Belper, Derbyshire
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms
  • Location: Belper, Derbyshire
Posted

Great photos, wish i was there too. :lol:

Paul R Enthusiast

Paul R

Posted
  • Location: Basingstoke, Hants
  • Weather Preferences: Unexpected gusts of wind, and cumulus clouds in rude and amusing shapes.
  • Location: Basingstoke, Hants
Posted

Cracking photos - oh aye. Nice one. Glad to see the chase is turning out to be a good one so far.

Gorky Contributor

Gorky

Posted
  • Location: Scarborough, North Yorkshire - 80m ASL
  • Weather Preferences: Tornadoey
  • Location: Scarborough, North Yorkshire - 80m ASL
Posted

On the group photo, I am nearest, with Stewart and Ian behind in that order. Interestingly, the SUV you see driving down the road pulled up and we met another chaser called Keith, from Austin. He's the guy who advised us on a location for the lightning photography. We bumped into him again later whilst photoing the storms from the east of Fredericksburg. A really nice guy :lol:

Louby Aficionado

Louby

Posted
  • Location: Redhill, Surrey
  • Location: Redhill, Surrey
Posted

Great pic's guys, lets hope it is the first of many more!

pottyprof Enthusiast

pottyprof

Posted
  • Location: Swallownest, Sheffield 83m ASL
  • Location: Swallownest, Sheffield 83m ASL
Posted

Stunning shots there Paul. Can't wait to see the anvil crawler video. May lady luck keep smiling mate.. :)

Andy Bown Veteran

Andy Bown

Posted
  • Location: Warminster, Wiltshire
  • Location: Warminster, Wiltshire
Posted

Brilliant start, here's to some 'booming' videos like last year!

AudMun Enthusiast

AudMun

Posted
  • Location: Northampton, UK
  • Location: Northampton, UK
Posted

A few to add to the mix. Better late than never.

Not sure if this will work........

post-7065-1178201824_thumb.jpg

post-7065-1178201842_thumb.jpg

post-7065-1178201871_thumb.jpg

post-7065-1178201884_thumb.jpg

post-7065-1178201894_thumb.jpg

NL Aficionado

NL

Posted
  • Location: South Shields Tyne & Wear half mile from the coast.
  • Location: South Shields Tyne & Wear half mile from the coast.
Posted

Working fine mate..Top draw shots there..

Bit small though :nonono:

kold weather Maestro

kold weather

Posted
  • Location: Liphook
  • Location: Liphook
Posted

Neat photos up here, looks like a decent enough supercell just a shame the lower shear was just not there for a tornado, still supes can be just as much fun to watch I guess!

  • 5 months later...
Paul Sherman Veteran

Paul Sherman

Posted
  • Location: Leigh On Sea - Essex & Tornado Alley
  • Location: Leigh On Sea - Essex & Tornado Alley
  • Author
Posted

Bit of a Bonus this, see if you can spot what I found when looking through my 1,200 pictures that are uploaded, have only been through a fraction of them

Paul S

post-24-1193785812_thumb.jpg

Louby Aficionado

Louby

Posted
  • Location: Redhill, Surrey
  • Location: Redhill, Surrey
Posted

Nice find!!

How many pics did you actually take in total Paul?

Nick F Maestro

Nick F

Posted
  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
Posted

Paul, have an almost identical picture too in my images of that day:

Close up:

post-1052-1193786913_thumb.jpg

I think there were a few occasions that afternoon/evening in the Texas Hill Country where I thought I saw lowerings from the storm's base.

Paul Sherman Veteran

Paul Sherman

Posted
  • Location: Leigh On Sea - Essex & Tornado Alley
  • Location: Leigh On Sea - Essex & Tornado Alley
  • Author
Posted
Nice find!!

How many pics did you actually take in total Paul?

About 1600 Lou, Stewart took about 4000 pictures, have had a boring night so decided to upload a lot of them and see what ones to delete and what ones to store etc, just goes to show Nick you have to have eyes everywhere!

Netweather Chase Team sees a Supercell and Tornado / F Cloud on there very 1st Chase day. Made me a lot happier!

Paul S

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Go to topic listing
×
×
  • Create New...