News DetailPictures from the Cold-Core Event in Kansas on Feb 24 - Breaking News: VIOLENT TORNADO IN AR!
Posted At: February 24, 2007 @ 9:14 PM
Posted By: Reed Timmer
Related Categories: Tornadoes
Here are some pictures from the cold-core event in north-central KS on Saturday. We intercepted two tornado-warned cells near Hope, KS south of Abilene. These cells did not produce any confirmed tornadoes, but had textbook mini-supercell structure.
A 1/2 mile wide tornado with a damage path 5-10 miles long ravaged parts of southeast AR earlier today at around 3 pm CST. Fortunately, no lives were lost from this tornado, but several structures were destroyed and cars were reported in trees! Shown below is the Little Rock, AR radar image from around the time of the tornado.
A 1/2 mile wide tornado with a damage path 5-10 miles long ravaged parts of southeast AR earlier today at around 3 pm CST. Fortunately, no lives were lost from this tornado, but several structures were destroyed and cars were reported in trees! Shown below is the Little Rock, AR radar image from around the time of the tornado.
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I don't know when that article about the 1/2 mile wide tornado in south Arkansas was posted, but it hit on January 12th of 2005. It came 30 yards from hitting my house and, yes, there were fatalities. Two of my elderly cousins died, one almost in my backyard. It was frightening, and the damage is still evident. The woods through here used to be so thick you couldn't even see lights from houses through them, and I can see front porch lights clearly from the left of my house where the tornado came through.
There was a system that came through here Saturday (2/24/07) and we had a series of 3 tornado warnings in the time span of an hour or two.
It might do you some good to travel out here and stay for a couple weeks during storm season. The land is pretty flat and low and it makes for some interesting storm chases I bet.
amazing pics! D200... DOMINATING!!!!!
What lense(s) do you use on your D-200? We use a Sigma wide-angle zoom on ours and have found it to be pretty terrific; can't wait to shoot some Ozark action with it. We're thinking of getting an 80-400mm zoom, but that probably wouldn't be very useful for storm photos unless we were trying to catch some distant funnel as a record shot ... unless you are going to tell me something differnt at this point. :)
Nice catalog of shots for your cold-core chase. The Ozarks was a bust, but as you know SE AR was another story. Are you guys now wishing you'd gone that-a-way instead?
Wow! Finally some convection on the plains!!!! Glad I sent you some eh Reed!
Wow! Finally some convection on the plains!!!! Glad I sent you some eh Reed!
I use an 18-135mm lense...But I just got the camera last week and have no idea what I'm doing out there yet...I experimented with the manual setting the last few days and started to get the hang of it..but have a LONG way to go!
Hey Mike!
This is just the preseason!
We definitely should have gone to southeast AR...I'm not messing with the cold core setups anymore. We need the high risk-high reward chases in the jungle east of here.
Finally you've got the weather you've been itching to get out into and do what you do best!
Mate, with your camera - i guess it's an SLR? So just keep the thing in auto mode and let the camera do the work! Any nighttime shots use bulb in M mode with a remote shutter release AND tripod, ISO 100 to 200, F stop 5.6 but NO higher than 8.
If your camera has an infinity marker on the lens ring closest to the camera (a sideways figure 8) set the focus to that and your camera won't then adjust itself when taking shots of things close and far away- so everything in the camera's field of view will be in focus. Wish i was there!