News DetailModerate Risk, Live Streaming, and the "Storm Chasers" Blog
Posted At: April 3, 2008 @ 10:55 AM
Posted By: Reed Timmer
Related Categories: Tornadoes
Today looks to be a big day for tornadoes across parts of North Texas beginning by late afternoon. With sufficient low-level shear and instability for tornadoes just south of a warm front draped across S OK, any supercells that develop in the warm sector will have the likelihood of rotating. The SPC has issued a moderate risk for this area, including a 10% area for tornadoes. We will be operating our LIVE VIDEO STREAMING system during this chase, which will initially include two storm chasing teams. You can access the streams on our "Live Tracker" page, and also see the updated GPS positions of the two streaming teams.
BREAKING NEWS!
TornadoVideos.net will also be a part of the 2008 season of Storm Chasers. I'll also be posting on the Storm Chasers blog throughout the storm season, so feel free to contribute on their blog as well!
BREAKING NEWS!
TornadoVideos.net will also be a part of the 2008 season of Storm Chasers. I'll also be posting on the Storm Chasers blog throughout the storm season, so feel free to contribute on their blog as well!
http://blogs.discovery.com/storm_chasers/
A live tracker will also be running on their website, discovery.com/stormchasers
A live tracker will also be running on their website, discovery.com/stormchasers
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First post! Man, you all are dominating...
Great work Reed! By the way, today is the anniversary of the Super Outbreak. Here is a great write up of the event from ABC 33/40 weather blog:
http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=6314
I will be watching the events unfold today on the live streams!
Wow! All of this, AND the comments are in italics!
:D
I like that live video streaming feature Reed. Good luck today in the field.
Great job you guys!! Good luck today and I will be watching on the live stream.
Reed, that's great! I can't wait to see what you guys are able to get with the DOW behind you :D
Good luck today, and stay safe :)
Congratulations on getting on the show, can't wait to see the first episode!!!
Duick
Yeah today is the day that the tornado outbrake happend! I'v been looking at things and a tornado hit North,East,South and west of me!
Hey check this out you guys
http://wwwt.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/mmbpll/cent4km/v2/
Is anyone else have video problems? I saw the video for a while... but now all I see is a Question mark lol
Why is there a big "?" on TVN 1
I am getting black screen on TVN1 and a question mark on TVN2.
Duh I meant the one of the right is ? mark and the one of the left is black. I am tired, sorry folks, I know there isnt one that says TVN2.
Audio is fun :-)
Wow, Tornadovideos.net hooked up with The discovery chanel - unblievable, that is probably the best tv show i have ever seen. And now my favorite chaser Reed is going to be part of it! I might as well faint now.... God i wish i was part of thier storm chasing group.
Oh man Reed, you are SO AWESOME! You are bringing joy to my otherwise drab and boring windowless cubicle here in cloudy, cool Ohio today. MAN do I miss Oklahoma. Me and Chad love seeing your updates. It really makes a work day bearable!!!
Transporting hailstones in portable coolers--only one of the great uses for them ; )
Jason, you should remove the live streams from the news post earlier. Every random person and search bot that visits the page is gonna load them and overwhelm the connection really fast!
You guys should have a chat box up in the live tracker/ live stream part. Just a thought.
Congrats! Can't wait to see storm chasers! Love the live stream!!
Looks good so far, though for some reason I'm not getting any sound from the second video stream. It was the same way yesterday for me as well, though I assumed the reboot would have fixed it. Maybe it's a problem on my end, but I get sound from the first stream so I dunno.
Also congrats on getting with StormChasers, and hope the chase goes well but safe for all those out this season.
Jeri they turned off the audio!
Ah, ok I was wondering why both were silent. Esp since just now it looked like Reed had just intro'ed the people riding with him, and I didn't hear anything.
Looks like Reed and co are heading towards the Witchita Falls storm while Stream 2 guys are going to head into it.
Yay for you guys being part of Storm Chasers AND for awesome changes to the site =)
They are going for the one to the south!
no sound.
the storm they are on now has really strong low level rotation. They might get a tornado. To bad there cam went black
Way too much bandwidth for me. Nothing can load with the two streams going.
Why don't you guys show up on spotternetwork.org?
I can see where everybody else is on there but you guys don't show?
PB: do you live on an acreage or farm? I get plenly of bandwidth form my Conection.
Telus High speed enhanced/ 3MP/s.
PB, They don't use spotter network.
I was thinking about posting a suggestion/asking if they could/would use SN in the forum...so if u want to go for it, i believe there are many people who want them to use in sn.
The storm tvn is with looks tornadic!
REED'S GOT HAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Huge hail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
that hail was amazing to watch. hope their windshield holds out.
nice core punch reed :P
I just saw Reed's hail on TWC!!!!
Im also on severe studios, they dont really seem to chase well.
Zach, Dont you post crap on other chasers, How DARE YOU!
Um, saying they dont chase great isn't posting crap. And they arent moving jst watching storms 100 miles away. Uh, Stop trying to start drama.
Hey Zack, If you want to continue this, Id be happy too, My IM for AIM is davidrtex@sbcglobal.net, Yahoo davidrtex@sbcglobal.net, MSN davidrtex@sbcglobal.net
Sure, why not
Hail covering the road on the live feed, looks like they are through, Now where is that tornado LOL
Dam zack , David( the chaser you are talking about is a very very good chaser) . Look's like this area is going to get wild. But I upset the wife and cant go out . Sad I am only 20 mile's north of Ardmore and ALL are spotter's but me are out. Stay safe Reed. Kfor ( www.kfor.com) has there chopper and 2 tracker on it.
There are two chasers active, How wold yo know which one im talking abot?
We're currently repositioning southwest to catch the Throckmorton cell. The previous cell tried to happen.
Then we cracked our windshield bigtime... I think the previous cell was just a little outflow dominant.
MASSIVE hail though!
Yeah I thought the same thing Reed... maby the other one will. The main tornado thret will occur tonight. Earlyer the other cell that your were in had weak rotation. Did you cetch that?
Has reed tested the video feed for nightime?
ya, I saw your windshield cracked up near the top. That sucks. Bet you got some good fotage though. The storm you are headed toward now is nicely isolated. hopfully it will do somthing before i go to work.
Looks like both teams cracked their windshields!! The price of storm chasing!
If any one wants to chat with me I'm here:
http://www.severestudios.com/chat/
The storm in Bradly area, has a nice lowered area on it via, KWTV
Everytime I try to open the "Live Tracker" I get an Internet Explorer error and the page closes. Any ideas on why, or is everyone having this issue? I was on the tracker and watching the streaming at work about 2 hours ago!
I got an idea, dont use IE :). But opera's not good for it either. You should try firefox...
I'm not getting booted, JasonW, but I did have trouble watching this afternoon because my connection isn't as fast as what everyone else (except PB! ;) has. I didn't get to see the hail storm; it looked like it was off-line at that time, on my machine. I should probably be crying.
Hey Zack...I thought i'd drop you a line...
None of those live streams you see on SevereStudios right now, are from the Severe Studio chasers....Instead, David Drummond, Steve Miller, and Chris Rice + many others.
Use SevereStudios Sister site Severe Streaming to stream live video from the field. What do u guys not understand about its FREE(Yes me or you could do it too), and just because Severe Studios hosts there stream, DOESNT make them a part of Severe Studios.
And FYI, David Drummond, Steve Miller, and Chris Rice are all Veteran storm chasers...Infact David is the Tech guy for stormtrack.org, and also chases for a tv station.
THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO ARE PART OF SEVERE STUDIOS ARE:
Kory Hartman
Kenny Allen
Ben Holcomb
Kevin Haney
Thats it.. all drama aside, i'm just trying to clarify things.
Appearently i missed quite a few people who have also joined severe studios...For thos who dont understand, "Joined severe studios", means they are a part of severe studios.
Add: Eric Schroeder
Landon Rae
Jay Buchholz
And associate chasers Chris Rice, Jonathan Brouwer and Josh Lockwood
http://www.severestudios.com/team
^The above Link has everyone, and what there part of Severe Studios is.
Oh my did your windshield really crack-up????
My side kick told me there is no deductible on windshield
breakage. What ever!!!!!!!
Keep us posted, we are watching .
What do ya'll think of the triple point. it is to my west , dp 68 , temp 70's. I feel Oklahoma show aint over.
I'm gonna try chasing tomorrow, anybody else?
Just to let you guys know. That one zack saying stuff about severestudios and stuff isn't me. So please don't think it is. To tell the difference between which zack is which. MY "z" is capital, and the other is lower case.
Anyways....We had thunderstorms develop just to the south of me. I got some shots on the back side of the line.
Oh so now im hated on here for saying some chasers arent good. Lol. Sorry zack for the confusion.
Risk downgraded to slight.
Thats it.. all drama aside, i'm just trying to clarify things.
^See that at the bottom, I was trying to be a donkey's butt(keep it pg), just trying to clarify things.
No hate, BTW didnt i say "I dont things are gonna be as great as everyone thinks" Yesterday. BUST.
Lol.
Good storms today I GUESS. But no tornadoes? Man!!!! Hope We see some tomorrow.
Wow i just re-read that and seen thiss... "I wasn't* trying to be a Donkeys Butt(keep it pg)."
Marlow OK's storm just blew up at the triple point.
... and there it goes, falling apart.
If you guys could get Captain Kirk to run the transporter on your vehicle and put you near the Little Rock area, something interesting is brewing there.
Tornado Warning near hot springs!
Storm near Hot Springs, AR has just had a tornado warning put on it.
http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=lzk&wwa=tornado%20warning
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
837 PM CDT THU APR 3 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN GARLAND COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS
CENTRAL SALINE COUNTY IN CENTRAL ARKANSAS
NORTHEASTERN HOT SPRING COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS
* UNTIL 930 PM CDT
* AT 832 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF LAKE CATHERINE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
LAKE CATHERINE...SHOREWOOD HILLS AROUND 845 PM CDT...
LONSDALE AROUND 855 PM CDT...
HASKELL AROUND 905 PM CDT...
BENTON AROUND 915 PM CDT...
HURRICANE LAKE AROUND 920 PM CDT...
BRYANT AROUND 925 PM CDT...
Thats a nice supercell with a well defined hook echo sw of Little Rock, AR.
TVN now heading home just got done at pizzahut. Its an ritual now. Possible sun and Mon event. Keep you updated. All right then peeaaacce!
Thanks everybody for the compliments. We were excited to finally get the live cam activated.
Not a bad day, but still no tube. Tennis ball sized hail was cool and took a toll on the Tahoe. Streaming video really worked about as well as we had hoped although there are a few things we are gonna try so that we avoid the "data holes" in the future and don't end up with periods of a black screen. Hope everyone enjoyed it!
Looks like we'll be down for a couple of days, but things should heat back up next week. Still a long ways to go in storm season 2008.
Joel
WE have 2 tornado warnings for central Arkansas and southeast Oklahoma
New tornado warning near idabel. Reports of golfball sized hail. Still no tornado reports
I say don't worry about eating Pizza Hut during chase season! Keep the ritual alive!
Reed, Joel, Cnote, Jason, good work today! It's amazing how every season is so different. Last year started out early for the plains... this year, the start was in the Southeast. May be some more severe weather here tomorrow. I'm sure Reed will blog about the Deep South event for tomorrow.
It is not looking good for communities south of Little Rock! The fox affiliate is streaming their newscast online: http://www.fox16.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoId=3762@video.fox16.com&navCatId=6
That was great guys, absolutly brilliant. I can't wait to actually see a Tornado develop in real-time. Today was a good test day for the TVCam, next time will be the real thing ;)
I sure hope that Hail didn't do too much damage... I was wondering if it would crack the windshield when I was watching it come down.
There is still a baseball game on going in Little Rock!! Someone needs to call that game with the lightning threat.
Reed, Joel, and Chris - it was great to watch the streaming - works fine on my computer. The Discovery page and photos are really good-the tracker was up and running there for all to see. Looks like you all are going to be famous!!! We all can't wait for the first episode!
And hello JY!!!!
They called the game, Still no tornado reported, however new tornado warning.
Hello smt! Can't wait for July and SSI!
Tornado warned cell showing rapid signs of weakening. Indications of a weak tornado are still there.
JY-hopefully tornado season will be over by July and August is too early for hurricanes. We have a window-a slight one, but hope for the best. I used the Katrina DVD again this week. I noticed the predictions for a bad hurricane season this year......maybe the TVN team will document one of those too.
Drive carefully Reed - and rest up for round two next week.
Question for Reed - will the streaming work on an iphone? We tried at work today, but couldn't get it to load??
I just got back in about an hour ago. I managed to get on the storm that tracked through the western part of North Texas... right as it died. Oh well. With the kind of hail today's storms are producing I guess it's a good thing I arrived too late.
Tonight could still get interesting. I am in a SVR Storm watch, and while I haven't had a chance to look at it, the NWS seems to think we have the potential for some large hail.
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
On the phone with Donny right now...he just called me, from his tornado shelter!! Sirens going off, they have no electricity and for now they're doing ok..
I was kind of wondering whether Donny was out on this storm or not ... it is GOOD to know he is okay.
A tornado was reported near little rock airport!!!!
Yeah, It was also just a monster hail day for us as well. We also have a massively cracked windshield on the passanger side as it couldn't handle the baseballs. We had some definate problems with data connections today, but hopefully we will work out some of those problems soon.
Ready to roll next week, looks interesting!
The reports have started coming in from central Arkansas. This looks bad.
I haven't heard from Donny again yet =/...
I promise though if I do I'll post it on here again immediately.
Gotta say that was the creepiest phone call of my life, because I have never heard tornado sirens before. I only know how they sound from TV/videos, until tonight =X.
Airplanes overturned at Little Rock's airport. Fuel on the friggin runway. If those planes are big this could be one of the most damaging tornadoes of all time.
This was a tornado, by the way. The National Weather Service sort of observed it passing over their office in Little Rock.
now lets not over dramatize stuff
Haha come on Darrin. You're right, this could be a very big event for Arkansas, but I wouldn't go as far as to say one of the most damaging tornadoes of all time.