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| Written by Reed Timmer | |||
| Monday, 22 June 2009 07:32 | |||
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Here are the videos from the June 15 Macksville, KS tornado and the June 17 tornadoes north of Gibbon, NE and west of Aurora, NE, as shot from the TornadoVideos.net SRV. The June 15 tornado was definitely one of the strongest of the year, ripping trees out of the ground as it crossed the road in front of us, and then turned southwest and headed straight toward our location! I tried to back up away from this tornado as it was too strong for intercept, but encountered a minor obstacle... The Radiance Technologies/TornadoVideos.net RC Plane successfully deployed a parachute probe into this tornado from the southeast, and it was lifted from 400 feet where it was dropped to an altitude of above 3500 feet before being carred for ~6 miles!
The first video below from June 17 is of the first two tornadoes produced by this supercell just north of Gibbon, NE. We attempted to intercept the first tornado but it roped out just as it reached our north-south road, and the second tornado was just as short-lived. Still though, the RC Plane was able to deploy 5 parachute probes into the inflow region of the second tornado (aerial video coming soon) as we in the SRV Dominator were attempting to collect vertical wind data near/in the tornadoes with the mobile radar.
And now for the grand finale... Below is video from inside the Aurora, NE tornado as it intensified on top of us. Note the mini suction vortices rotating around the vehicle inside the parent tornado, with the strongest one slamming into the left side of the vehicle and blowing out the driver's side window. The bubble cam captured this vortex the best as it rotated around the front of the vehicle and approached from the left... A 138.8 mph wind gust was recorded just as this mini-tornado slammed the vehicle, and our ears popped as the pressure dropped inside the circulation. We were scanning the vertical winds with the Close-Range Vertical Radar (CLOVER) for nearly 30 seconds as this tornado passed directly overhead, and captured incredible measurements of the updrafts inside a strengthening tornado. This moment was captured by our dashboard cams perfectly, so be sure to watch Storm Chasers on Discovery this Fall for INSANE footage of the window imploding inside the tornado.
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June 15 and 17th videos finally uploaded!!
Jun 23 2009 00:56:44 Reed you should have been back home in Grand Rapids Friday the 19th. We had an EF1 and two EF2 tornadoes in Allegan and Barry counties Friday evening. Plus Holland suffered 7.38 inches of rain. B93 Birthday Bash still has cars parked in areas flooded by the Grand River in Ionia. Quite a mess back home.
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Re:June 15 and 17th videos finally uploaded!!
Jun 23 2009 08:41:20 thats intense footage right there
 i dont know what the rest of you guys think on here but i think reed should be nominated for an oscar  i take my hat off to reed and co.
goosebumps all over watching that footage and no special effects anywhere! just the awesome power of mother nature
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Jun 24 2009 00:20:16 All I can say is WOW! I was nervous as heck watching that stuff! And is it just me, or does that vortex seem to make a sucking sound as it passes by? Again, WOW! I am EAGERLY awaiting the 3rd season of Storm Chasers!
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please be careful out there and holler if you need me!
Great footage! Thankyou for doing this amazing job so people like me, Just a Mom in Florida with a passion for these Awesome forces of nature to be able to experience such a wondrful entercept !!!
Who would have ever thought about such an event many years ago!! Again B safe out there!!! you are in my thoughts & prayers!
^5 TBONE…classy way to deal with…ummm…naysayers?
/agree. It still amazes me that people who have no idea what theyre talking about still manage to spout stuff off thinking they look important. Again tho, Great stuff Reed, hope you can get more and more info from this and the other intercepts youve had.
Aren't there actually two windows? The regular (inner) window and then the super duper strength (outer) window? I cound't tell from the video if both were blown out or if just one, which one.
Was the person riding "shotgun" steering while you filmed? If so, have ya ever thought about installing a steering wheel, brakes, & gas on the passenger side, like what they use in driver's ed?? Just saying…
Doesn't that production crew driver know to watch out where YOU are driving?
Yeppers, sure glad y'all are fine and live to chase another day. God Bless & Keep Ya Safe.
T-Baby
PS: TBone1082, ^5 from me, too, for telling that dumba$$ Gawdang how the cow ate the cabbage!
And this is probably the best and most intresting thing ive ever seen on video so far… well done guys!
Keep it up, and remember there isn't a limit to how much u push it..the limit will always be pushed farther and farther.
i had said before up little ways i dont hear joel anymore and hope still part of the team hopefully heidi or reed could say a answer for us
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