Storm chaser Bill Ford captured this highly destructive wedge tornado on May 15, 2013 near the town of Cleburne in north Texas. TVNweather.com!
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Thunder's Curtis McDonald, Matt Chatelain, Daniel Betten and Thomas Spence document the April 14, 2012 outbreak in northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas!
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Photographer Mike Olbinski documents an incredible dust storm--or Haboob--in Phoenix, Arizona!
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Storm chaser Bill Doms captures photogenic video of a violent Minnesota tornado on August 7, 2010
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Extreme videographer and storm chaser James Reynolds documented an extreme ice event on the shores of Lake Geneva in February, 2012! For more, visit TyphoonFury.com
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Extreme videographer Jim Edds documents the incredible blizzard that impacted New England in February of 2013!
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Storm chaser/photographer Chad Cowan documents the storm of a lifetime in South Dakota.
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Photographer and storm chaser Stephen Locke documents an EF-4 tornado across central Kansas on April 14, 2012.
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Storm chaser Scott Peake documents the destructive Hattiesburg, Missisippi EF-4 tornado on February 10, 2013.
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Storm chasers get an up-close and personal look at a violent tornado during the May 24, 2011 Oklahoma outbreak.
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| Written by Dick McGowan | |||
| Saturday, 31 March 2012 12:40 | |||
On Wednesday, TVN headed out to chase with an initial target of Salina, KS and watched a dual warm front, separated by about 50 miles in northern Kansas, lift northward where towering cumulus was present. As the northern warm front washed out, a weak disturbance, helped form a surface trough from Wichita to Salina and helped add an area of moisture convergence and kicked off supercells from Topeka to south of Emporia. TVN blasted east and then south to Council Grove, KS where we experienced a storm producing quarter size hail.
After watching a left-split race north of Emporia (and had an amazing anti-cyclonic wall cloud), it was evident that the southern storm would be the most isolated of the three and right along a boundary. As we approached the town of Madison, KS, we were getting golfball size hail and the sirens were sounding (even though there was not a tornado warning, spotters reported a funnel cloud west of town, which was verified through their photos). We drove east of town a couple of miles, then south and witnessed a striated supercell with amazing structure and a rapidly rotating wall cloud directly overhead. Inside the hook, we were also watching baseball size hail periodically falling and Reed took a hit from a golfball to his arm, where it left a welt! For the next two hours, we watched several occlusions develop with wall clouds and funnels (possibly a brief touchdown) as this nearly stationary supercell spun almost in place! We maybe moved 5 miles within 2 hours, giving us a beautiful viewing until about 10:30 p.m. as the supercell gradually weakened. Check out the video below!
Models continue to look worse and worse for a possible chase on Monday, with nearly straight line hodographs and keeping the best shear west of the instability in the W OK and NW TX region. Regardless, TVN plans to chase this setup and will be shooting our new webisodes! If you haven't already, sign up and spread the word about TVNWeather.com! Exciting new things are in the works of being launched!
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