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Report & Pictures Chase Day 15


Paul Sherman

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

Started Tuesday May 11th in Norman with a Slight Risk for Storms mainly in Oklahoma. Went West towards Clinton with an Initial Chase Target of Woodward. Changed this on route when it started to look like SW Oklahoma was primed but due to strong capping in this area we went back to initial target area of NW Oklahoma. Cap got bust at 745pm and got on the only cell of the day along with about 1,000 chasers. This turned into an absolutely amazing LP Supercell which looked like the Volcanic Ash Cloud :lol: Some of the guys have incredible pictures and Videos of this, as we approached Wooodward the cell got Tornado Warned so we went to about 2 Miles away from the Rotation, we managed to miss the large hail but took a few stray bullets from the Anvil. When the cell died off we ate Macydees and headed East to Enid in readiness for another chase Today!

Picture credit to Dave Vicary & James Menzies

post-24-12736448117357_thumb.jpg - Insane Lightning In the Anvil

post-24-12736480010578_thumb.jpg - Anti Crep Rays!

post-24-12736480388378_thumb.jpg - Beautiful LP Structure

post-24-12736480797578_thumb.jpg - Corkscrew Effect Updraught!

post-24-12736481238378_thumb.jpg - Rotating LP Supercell

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Paul S & Team

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  • Location: SE London
  • Location: SE London

great photo by Dave there Paul. glad you missed the heavy hail. would imagine baseball size hail would do lots of damage if you were caught in it. happy hunting for today :lol:

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  • Location: Aberystwyth, West Wales
  • Location: Aberystwyth, West Wales

Got a few pics of the damage today before we set out for the chase. Was quite unreal to see what tornadoes can do first hand :lol: Few screengrabs of some lightning and some other pics too. Just uploading an ace video of the lightning too but probably wont be ready till the morning.

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  • Location: SE London
  • Location: SE London

Cheers for those Smokes. and as you say, the damage that the winds can do is quite scarey. and with that in mind, you lot take care out there :lol:

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

Well, you got to your original target of Woodward the long-way round :lol:

Shame that cell that formed near Mangum struggled and disappated, probably struggling with the cap. Then the best storm of the day fired near the TX Panhandle/OK Border further north near the dryline/warm front triple point and this was in a much better environment wind shear-wise, apparently the cell produced a brief funnel near Woodward. No tornado reports apart from over Ohio.

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  • Location: Aberystwyth, West Wales
  • Location: Aberystwyth, West Wales

Video uploaded already. Might take a few mins for the HD option. Check out around 30 seconds in :lol:

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

That structure reminds me of something taken by the Hubble telescope..

Fab pics once again peeps.. :lol:

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  • Location: South Yorkshire Barnsley 66m ASL
  • Location: South Yorkshire Barnsley 66m ASL

love the photos and video! hope you lot get lucky today!

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  • Location: Bexley (home), C London (work)
  • Weather Preferences: Thunderstorms
  • Location: Bexley (home), C London (work)

OMFG! Wow!

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  • Location: south London
  • Location: south London

best looking LP Ive ever seen yesterday,Incredible structure!!

will post video when I get back home as my small netbook is struggling to cope.

Today is looking very interesting also :lol:

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  • Location: South Cheshire
  • Location: South Cheshire

Wow... that structure is just unbelievable. Can't even begin to imagine what it must have been like to see it in the flesh! :)

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  • Location: Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. 108.7m ASL
  • Location: Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England. 108.7m ASL

Mmmmm thats one cool looking storm, all i could think about seeing the structure was. Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Badger, Mushrooms, Mushrooms! pmsl

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