News DetailVideo/pictures of the Manitoba tornado from yesterday!
Posted At: July 24, 2008 @ 2:05 PM
Posted By: Reed Timmer
Related Categories: Tornadoes
Below is a video from Rob MacDonald of Prairie Skies Storm Chasing and pictures from Justin Hobson of the University of Manitoba/Environment Canada of the tornadic supercell north and northeast of Pipestone, Manitoba from yesterday evening. This cell produced several tornadoes during about a 15 minute span as the storm showed 100+ knots gtg on radar. If these chasers weren't in the area, no one would have known about these tornadoes!
Here are some high-resolution radar images provided by Justin H of the storm at the time of the tornado. The left image I believe is storm relative velocity and the center is reflectivity. As you can see the couplet was very impressive on this storm at the time of the tornado.
Here are some high-resolution radar images provided by Justin H of the storm at the time of the tornado. The left image I believe is storm relative velocity and the center is reflectivity. As you can see the couplet was very impressive on this storm at the time of the tornado.
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great chase guys! thanks for doing what you do! Lets us see 'em when we can't go get them ourselves.
Wow, that was a monster cell.
I vote Rob Macdonald for Canadian chaser of the year. Keep em coming.
Gotta give credit where credit is due My nephew Tristan was running my camera on this chase he did a great job. My other Nephew Brennan was the driver I got phone, radar, stills, and naviagtion duty all worked out great:) We are the 3 who do chase together and make up our little team and have a blast doin it! We are hoping to be Torando alley bound next May should be a bunch of fun. But gotta love the Cdn. Prairie chases
Nice Vid Rob...you were def closer then me...good job!!!!
Wow the green clouds at the end were awesome.
Might want to get someone else to do the video recording next time, that was a horrible job. Camera was all over the place. Got dizzy watching it.
Yeah, great job nice footage... Keep it up.
I have been sort of obssesed with tornado videos lately, after the Windsor, CO tornado this year, and this one is amazing! Beautiful, but scarry. I would love to do what you do! Good job.
Great work guys!! good to know there are some local chasers out there keeping us updated and getting great footage!! Well done!
good job rob! excellent footage. still waiting for it here in alberta...nothing but cold core all bloody year. i still have hope for late next week though.
tornado watch for kansas/missouri.... can anybody tell me how it looks?
Nice one, Rob =).
On a side note, more stuff rolling around Saskatchewan again today. We just had some nice HUGE rain drops and cool lightning blow through.. also a brief tornado reported near Moose Jaw
Matt, I haven't looked at it for more than two minutes, but I don't think you're gonna see anything special. The one storm up there is leaving the area where CAPE and shear are maximized, and based on radar it could be pretty outflow dominant. The SPC kept the probabilities pretty low for that watch. Then again GR3 seems to show rotation, so maybe I'm wrong, I just don't think too much will happen. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong on all of this.
Dick McGowan is on that storm according to Spotter Network... He'll probably report a huge wedge just to prove me wrong lol.
Rob... Amazing footage mate! You scored on some good ones.. Really enjoyed that... Cheers
Rob and Justin, you made that tornado famous. It was mentioned every 15 minutes on the news on Yorkton radio!
I sure hope things turn out here in Alberta, not has it been cold, it has been dry, nothing even close sing the 5th, and it said on the new that areas between Edmonton and Ponoka(where i live) has been very dry, I hope to get an "August super sparker" like back in 2006, or a late July supercell like last year, but i'll not have my hopes up until it comes
^sorry about the typos^
Nice article in the Winnipeg Sun Rob and Reed.
http://winnipegsun.com/News/Manitoba/2008/07/25/6261436-sun.html
Nice video and pictures!!! We had at least two waterspouts in Montreal last wednesday... There's some videos of those on youtube.
Here's the link...
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=El-LtD7LN0w
Hey what part of manitoba did it hit as my old next door neighbours only moved there in febrary
hi guys! Good job chasing. I am a strorm watcher myself and a wannabe tornado chaser. Im from Winnipeg and last year's F5 in Elie(which I believe you saw as well) got me even more interested in tornado chasing. I love Thunderstorms. Were you guys always into tornado chasing? How did you get into it and how can an amateur strom watcher get involved in the "adrenaline rush?"
Brett, you might want to check out the forum (click my name). Since this blog entry is pretty far down the queue I'm not sure many people will see it, but if you ask on the forum it's more likely to be noticed. :)