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6-17-10 Outbreak MN
Written by Jeff Gonzales   
Tuesday, 22 June 2010


6-17-10 Tornado Outbreak South MN

bob1.jpgJeff left from Omaha, NE shortly after he was able to get out of work.  His initial target was just east of Sioux City. CU started to develop and Jeff followed them to the east as the became storms. Jeff noticed that the storms would go up quickly but then never gain enough strength to sustain itself. Being disappointed with driving that far and seeing weak storms, Jeff decided to make a break for the tornadic storms around the MN/IA border. After awhile of driving, Jeff finally made it to the cells just south of the MN boarder. He then saw some good roatation to the south east of him  and decided he needed to go more east to let it come at him and follow them from behond so he went on 500th street (dirt road to go east). Shortly after a tornado came down and was on the ground only for a few minutes. Jeff continued driving toward the roatation as the same torando came down on the road in front of Him. ssaw2.jpgA beautiful lighting strike lit up the area just behind the tornado. Just as that tornado began to die off and new lowering was taking place. This lowering produced two very nice tornadoes and then became a multi vortex shortly after that. Jeff stuck with the storm as it began to get stronger. He was alittle worried being on a dirt road with only 1/8th of a tank left, but he didn't want to abandon the storm. The storm quickly gained strength and became a large multi vortex tornado just north of Keister, MN. 8881191.jpgJeff continued with the storm despite the gas situation hoping to be able to make it to Alberta Lea to fill up there as he followed the storm. Jeff stuck with the large wedge and it continued until he noticed it hit some houses. Jeff decided to break off the chase and check on the houses that got hit to make sure everybody was ok. Powerlines and trees were down. Jeff arrived at a house and was able to help two ladies get out of their basement. They were ok, but their house took some damage but still standing and their barns and cars were destroied. After Jeff checked on the houses, a new storm came through and produced a breif tornado. Jeff was able to make it to Alberta Lea, MN and filled up.

  • Tornadoes: 5
  • Miles 1034
  • States: NE, IA, MN
  • Hail: half dollar

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Last Updated ( Saturday, 24 July 2010 )
 
6-3-10 Aruroa, NE
Written by Jeff Gonzales   
Tuesday, 22 June 2010


6-3-10 Aurora, NE Tornadic Cell

tr656nnmccda.jpgJeff headed out with friend Bryan and Nate and headed west from Omaha to wait for storm development. We were able to get to a beautiful cell that had amazing structure. The cell was severe warned and had some slight rotation. We ened up staying infornt of the cell as the shelf cloud came towards us. The storm quickly became outflow dominate and eneded up dying of. However more storm development was happening to our south west. We then decided to head south toward Central City, NE to let the storm come to us. The storm ened up becomeing tornado warned for a short time as ittr656nnmccdaxcxxffdfrgdcgfd4e.jpg headed toward us. A beautiful wall cloud formed but shortly dispated. The cell had amazing structure. When it got near us, we headed to stay infront of it. The cell was moving to the south east so we had some good position. Alittle further south, we stopped to watch another wall cloud. A breif funnel was seen lowering from the wall, but never touched the ground. We then noticed in the gust front a nice gustnado. We headed toward it and let it pass behind us. Shortly after that the storm weakened and slowly died.

  • Tornadoes: 0
  • Miles: 350
  • States: NE
  • Hail: dime

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5-19-10 oklahoma
Written by Jeff Gonzales   
Tuesday, 22 June 2010


5-19-10 Kingfisher and Dover Co. Oklahoma

Jeff teamed up with Randy Cooper and John Moon and headed down to Oklahoma for a high risk system. We stayed in kljhlkcone22.jpgOklahoma City the night before and in the morning headed west to wait for development. We headed to the first cell which was exploding. It went tornado warned and there was a report of a breif tornado. When we go to the cell it seemed to be recycling. We then had to back track to the west  some due to bad roads. When we got to a good road we were about in the middle of two torando warned storms. We decided to head to the one to our southwest so it could move toward us. The cell ended up become an HP supercell. We got ahead of the storm and saw some great rotation. We saw a breif funnel that was half way to the ground but never ended up becoming a tornado. Alittle later we had a breif needle funnel as the meso crossed over the road. The storm then cone_funnelsjsjs123132182382.jpgdropped a multi vortext tornado and just as we saw it drop we got hit by the strong rain filled RFD. A wedge tornado formed and quickly became ran wrapped. We could see the tornado had became a wedge inside the rain curtin. We followed the storm as it continued to move to the east. We noticed a nice funnel formed close to us that had some amazing rotation as it formed ahead of the rain curtin. Shortly after that, the storm becaome outflow dominate and ended up dying out.

  • Tornadoes:  3
  • Miles: 1200
  • Hail: quarter
  • States: NE,KS,OK

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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 22 June 2010 )
 
5-19-10 High Risk
Written by Jeff Gonzales   
Wednesday, 19 May 2010


High Risk today, 5-19-10, for Oklahoma

5-19-10trn.gifThe risk for today has been upgraded to a high risk for central Oklahoma today for severe weather and a tornado risk currently of 30% as an upper low continues to make its way eastward. Jeff and Tammy will both be streaming live today from the Oklahoma area.

The SPC said this:   THE STORMS WILL 5-19-10hrj.gifQUICKLY BECOME SUPERCELLS GIVEN 40-50 KT DEEP WSWLY SHEAR AND SBCAPE OF 2500-3000 J/KG.  THE SETUP APPEARS MOST FAVORABLE FOR LARGE...RELATIVELY SLOW MOVING INTENSE STORMS WITH LARGE HAIL.  GIVEN SIZABLE LOW LVL DIRECTIONAL COMPONENT TO SHEAR...ESPECIALLY NEAR REMNANT OUTFLOW BOUNDARY AND/OR FRONT...A COUPLE STRONG TORNADOES ALSO MAY OCCUR.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 19 May 2010 )
 
5-18-10 Mod Risk
Written by Jeff Gonzales   
Tuesday, 18 May 2010


Moderate Risk today, 5-18-10, for Texas Panhandle

5-18-10tr.gifThere is a moderate risk today for the Texas panhandle. The tornado risk is currently at 10% should set up for a good dryline play. Jeff will be on this same system tomorrow as it moves to the east into Oklahoma.

The SPC said this: MODERATE INSTABILITY AND STG   VERTICAL SHEAR/VEERING WIND PROFILES WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR   SUPERCELLS...WITH LARGE 5-18-10mr.gifHAIL AND SOME TORNADOES.  THIS THREAT SHOULD  BE GREATEST LATE THIS AFTN/EARLY TONIGHT OVER SE CO/FAR ERN NM AND  MUCH OF W TX.  WITH MODERATE SLY LLJ LIKELY TO INCREASE IN RESPONSE  TO CONTINUED EWD PROGRESSION OF GRT BASIN UPR TROUGH...THE  RELATIVELY GREATEST TORNADO THREAT A BIT LATER THIS EVE MAY EXIST  OVER PARTS OF THE TX PANHANDLE AND ADJACENT TX S PLNS...NEAR SFC  WARM FRONT/CONVECTIVE OUTFLOW/DRY LINE INTERSECTION.
  

 
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Jeff's 2010 Stats

  •  Chases: 14
  • Miles: 7840
  • States: NE, IA, MO, KS, CO, MN, OK, SD 
  • Tornadoes: 19
  • Hail: ping pong ball 

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