{"id":120,"date":"2010-04-24T23:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-25T03:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mbuchholz.com\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2011-06-26T12:47:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T16:47:26","slug":"day-114-storm-chasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbuchholz.com\/photoblog\/120\/day-114-storm-chasing","title":{"rendered":"Day 114. Storm Chasing"},"content":{"rendered":"

So far 54 tornadoes have been reported from today’s storm, with Mississippi and Alabama getting the brunt of the storm, as was expected.\u00a0 Wasn’t planning on chasing today (if I was, my plan was to stay at the SE-corner of Missouri last night, and then to follow the storms across the south-central U.S. in the morning).<\/p>\n

\"Feed<\/a><\/p>\n

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As I figured I was too late to track any of the real activity, I decided to half-explore \/ half-track the one storm I thought had potential.\u00a0 I ended up starting in eastern Oklahoma and tracking the storm across Rogers, Arkansas and up through Table Rock Lake to Springfield, Missouri.\u00a0 While I was surrounded by some very intimidating clouds (below picture was the standard view of the day), I managed today to stay out of the hail and 70+ mph winds this storm recording through careful GPS navigation on my Doppler display.<\/p>\n

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Storm clouds near Springfield, MO<\/p><\/div>\n

While there was a clear wall cloud that I tracked for miles, I never positively saw anything touchdown (despite a lot of semi-funnels that were sticking-out).\u00a0 According to the National Weather Service though, a F0 did in fact touchdown 5-miles east of me at the exact time I was driving through (18:40) and was recorded with 80 mph winds.\u00a0 I swear I saw a clear funnel at this point while looking over the lake, but it was only two quick looks I got and I shrugged it off as my mind playing tricks on me.\u00a0 I guess I’ll never know.<\/p>\n

\"Storm<\/a>

After leaving Springfield, heading east to intercept storm brewing in southeast<\/p><\/div>\n

Another 11 hour day and 600 mile drive.<\/p>\n

\"Beantown<\/a>

Beantown USA; Arkansas<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So far 54 tornadoes have been reported from today’s storm, with Mississippi and Alabama getting the brunt of the storm, as was expected.\u00a0 Wasn’t planning on chasing today (if I was, my plan was to stay at the SE-corner of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[766,1337,249,371,176,767,168],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape-photography","tag-arkansas","tag-event-photojournalism","tag-farms","tag-missouri","tag-signs","tag-springfield-mo","tag-storms"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t