Archive for 'Adam’s Chase Logs'
Chase Log – April 19th 2011 Litchfield Illinois Tornado
Posted on21. Apr, 2011 by Adam.
Today turned out to be great chase. Along with Danny Neal, Mike Boik and Jonathan Williamson originally targeted near Effingham Illinois. Storms instead blew up further west along the MS river so we abandoned that target and set off to intercept the storms. A tornado was on the ground in Bowling Green, MO heading into [...]
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Adams’s Chase log. October 18th 2007 Nappanee, Indiana EF-3 Tornado!
Posted on18. Oct, 2010 by Adam.
Our original target was the Champaign area, however we decided to stop in a town called Gilman instead to play our waiting game there. This wasn’t my first time here either, we also stopped here on March 1st of this year. The day started off slow, keeping tabs on weather updates and watching tower after [...]
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Adam’s 4/22/10 Chase Log – Texas Panhandle Tornado Fest!
Posted on03. May, 2010 by Adam.
Danny and I intercepted 6 tornadoes, perhaps even as many as 9, but we were unable to confirm some of the touchdowns. The day began and Childress, TX as we waited for storms to fire. Eventually we ended up intercepting east of Amarillo near the towns of Goodnight, Jericho and Alanreed. Here is a highlight [...]
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Adam’s 4/4/10 Chase Log – Close intercept!
Posted on11. Apr, 2010 by Adam.
Detailed account: I awoke Sunday morning and went over the forecast to decide if I wanted to head out. I knew I would be chasing Monday and Tuesday so if Sundays target would favor the overall marathon I would go for it. I decided it would and left Chicago around 11am. I set up a [...]
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Adam’s Chase Log 6/7/08 – Chicagoland Tornado
Posted on07. Jun, 2008 by Adam.
Summary: An un-planned, last minute local chase will probably be number 1 for the year. Amazing how things pan out in this game. Quickly left my house after a lone tornadic supercell heading into Will County which I like to call “the tornado alley of northern Illinois.” Core punched the storm with some penny hail, [...]
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Adam’s 5/30/08 Chase Log – Funnel Cloud over Springfield, IL
Posted on30. May, 2008 by Adam.
Summary: Half day chase sends us a bit further south and west then our initial target. Intercepted 4 tornado warned storms…a new record for me in IL. All storms were HP bombs that went briefly tornadic but then became outflow dominant, shear was becoming more unidirectional as the day went on which couldn’t help maintain [...]
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Adam’s 2/5/08 Chase Log – The Deadly Super Tuesday Outbreak
Posted on05. Feb, 2008 by Adam.
Summary: A very chaotic chase, my first long distance solo chase. Spent much of the day waiting for my target zone to light up. Had convection equal distances to my west and east. Worried my target zone would bust and based on the advice from my nowcasters I shot back east towards Memphis to intercept [...]
