Report & Pictures / Video Chase Day 26

[Paul Sherman]

Here is a thread for Nathan to upload some of his footage from the crazy day he endured in South Dakota on 22nd May 2010!

Over to you Nathan!

Paul S

[Gorky]

Tis a bit late so I'll just post some pics and a general overview.

Target Pierre. Initiation ended up being 50miles north. Made it to the storm 20 minutes after the first Tor warning but it had not produced

Watched as it wrapped up into an incredible meso rotating very fast. Massive RFD cut dug in spinning up the meso even more. Cloud motions were beyond unreal. Dropepd a fat cone which morphed to a stone pipe. This rotated around the outside of the rain wrapped meso, then another large tornado wrapped around again. I presume it was multivirtex at this time. Those tornadoes ended and it changed to a multivortex tornado with the wall cloud pretty much on the ground. It wedged out near a town but missed all but 1 house apparently. It ingested a cell to the south and cycled. I got in position for a beautiful cone underneath a mothership. It then produced a barely condensed multivortex tornado under the meso also. I got ahead of the storm on an east road which just ended despite Streets and Trips saying otherwise. Turned around but was blocked by more chasers doing the same. Rope tornado formed behind us and crossed the road near the highway junction. A second cone forced us east to the farmers field and crossed the road where we are knocking down a few power pole in a nearby field. A third funnel was heading for us a the field and we all headed south on the field. We got stuck as expected, that tornado passed to the north, but sod's law, another tornado developed over us. A multivortex with suction vortices dancing around the cars. WE didn't get hit by any and hail wasn't too bad but needed to wait a day to get bailed out.

Pictures!

Video of the entire first tornado evolution of cone-multivortex-wedge is being uploaded to Youtube this evening!

Shall post a link tomorrow if it uploads ok.

Also need to get vid caps from the later tornadoes as I'd stopped shooting the DSLR when things got manic...

[Paul Sherman]

Very Nice

Thank God one Uk Chaser got onto these Storms!

Very much like the end of June Aberdeen Wedge from 6 years ago

Paul S

[SteveB]

That sounds truely amazing. Not something you are going to forget in a hurry.

Top notch photos.

[pottyprof]

Super stuff Nathan. Those photos are brilliant. Looking forward to the video..

[Crimson_Sprite]

Absolutely "torgasmic" pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gpspete]

photographs INCREDIBLE amongst the best i have seen on any website just AMAZING thanks for sharing Nathan

[Harry]

That cone sixth up from the bottom is a STUNNING photo! Some amazing tornadoes in there too!!

[Andy Bown]

That cone sixth up from the bottom is a STUNNING photo!

My thoughts exactly. This year's chase is amazing!

[Gorky]

Only managed to get 2 of the 4 videos uploaded so far. Internet connection keeps cutting out mid upload on the larger files. Videos will be posted when they are all up including a nice 4 minute lifecycle of a cone tornado similar to the one in the photo above, but a bit later in the life cycle of the storm.

Thanks for all the comments.

[Arron]

Cheers for the pics Nathan, looks awesome!

[Gorky]

[user700]

Excellent Nathan! Great photos and video

[sunny scunny]

Wow simply stunning photos . i'll checkout the videos later.

[multi cellular thunderstorm]

Excellent photos and videos Nathan, the tornado in the last video is amazing.

Had an incredible time this year but that just shows there's plenty more to see, can't wait for next year!

[John Hanrahan]

WOW. That last video is as good if not better than most of the tornado videos I've seen.

Fantastic job.

[BornFromTheVoid]

Great pictures and videos! I especially like the 3rd video, that rotating supercell looks absolutely immense, must be quite a humbling experience.

[kold weather]

Just seen this thread, superb photos thats for sure!

Great video as well mate, that was a nice wedge from the looks of things!