Large tornado intercepted around 5 pm CDT June 5 , 2009 near La Grange, WY. YAY!
Videos will be added tomorrow.
Author Archive > Rissa
Finally some real action!
Monday (May 25)
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We traveled from Norman to just southeast of Amarillo to meet up with the Armada. We waited around for some time, and we were then told to head for Estelline to set up for future targets. After approximately 15 minutes on the side of the highway in Estelline, we were [...]
Videos, nearly pointless chases, and heading back south
I’ve uploaded a few new videos of waves from Lake McConaughy, as well as buffalo and prairie dogs from South Dakota.
Friday (May 22):
We got up for the morning weather briefing and they told us that we’d be playing something right in our hotel’s vicinity in Hot Springs and that we’d be staying in the same [...]
Microbursts, Wall Clouds, and Mount Rushmore
I know it’s been a while since I posted, but I wanted to wait until I had more to talk about.
Monday night & Tuesday (May 18 and 19):
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We arrived in Ogallala (try saying it… ’tis quite fun) Nebraska and stayed in a single hotel with the whole V2 armada. The rooms were [...]
First day on the road
Map of the southern part of our root.
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So, today was our first day out on VORTEX 2. We started out in Norman, OK at 10 am packing our bags and equipment in to the car and left out of the parking lot at 11 am. We headed North on I 35 up to [...]
My new HD Camcorder
I got my graduation present in the mail today: a Canon Vixia HF 20 HD camcorder. I skipped on studying for my Friday final to stay home so that I could sign for the package thinking the UPS man would be by around 2 or 3. But the hours went by: 3, 4, 5, 6… [...]
A new blog with my own domain :)
So, I’ve gotten a blog so that everyone can follow me on my storm chasing adventures. I won’t be able to tell you where I’m going or where I am specifically once I get out there, but I plan on spewing everything that happened from the previous day on here. I’ll do my best to [...]
