I am very excited to announce that I am part of the Extreme Chase Tours Team. I would like to thank Lanny Dean for offering me a position. Lanny also brought Shane Adams on board. I look forward to working with the both of them during the 2010 chase season. If you would like to go on a storm chasing tour and witness the raw power of mother nature, go to the link below and book a tour !

https://www.extremechasetours.com/Home_Page.php

June 9, 2009 Chase Vid

This vid shows some structure and some Scud Clouds lifting. There was some rotation, but most of it was very broad. This was a good test for the new vid game. I am not real happy with the quality from the upload. It looks great on the pc. Oh well, it's video I guess. The best rotation I seen, was the area I called spin (a little vortex). Not sure why I said spin....lol.

June 3, 2009 Chase

Yesterdays chase didn't produce any tornados, but I had fun none the less. Lanny Dean and I decide to chase west of Tulsa, close to I-35. The models indicated some potential, so we loaded our gear and hit the road.

As we got west of T-town we could see CU Towers going up, but they would soon die out. After further observation, we could see this would happen most of the afternoon. So we decided to wait until late evening, hoping things would pick up.

After a two hour wait, we decide to drive to a good vantage point to view anything trying to form. We watched more CU Towers going up most died out, but some of them took hold. They turned out to be multi-cell and not super cell, so we decided to take some structure shots.

Even though we busted regarding tornados, I had a great time. Thanks for taking me along Lanny !

Here are a couple of pics. I did tinker with some settings, let me know what you think.

Memorial Day Weekend

Well, I hope every one had a great holiday weekend. Hopefully every one took a few minutes out of their day to think about the fallen soldiers, after all that's the reason we could go to the lake, bbq, be lazy etc....

My wife and a I went over to Lanny & Laura Dean's for some bbq a couple of nights. We had a great time ! If you ever get the chance to hang out with them, I highly encourage it. They are outstanding individuals.

During the weekend, I looked forward to watching some war movies. To my surprise, there was very little shown until Monday. Even then, I only found maybe four channels showing them. While growing up, I remember most channels aired war movies all weekend. So what gives ?

I understand some people don't like watching war movies, because of the blood and guts. This day and age, there is a war movie for everyone though. I think it's the least we could do to honor our fallen heroes.

I'm not sure who calls the shots regarding what is aired, but I hope they can pull their heads out of their asses. At least long enough to remember what they have, because of what fallen soldiers have provided all of us.

My apologies for the cuss words, but it really pissed me off to see this happen. Maybe I am patriotic, but that's me.

The Ridge

Well, what chasers call an omega blocking pattern has set up. Thus not allowing good set ups for storms. I just hope it will clear out soon. They can last for weeks.

First Blog On This Site

Okay folks, this is my first blog post, using google blogger. I will try it and see how it goes. I have added a poll at the bottom of the page, be sure to vote.

I am new to storm chasing, so come along for the adventure. I will try to update my blog regularly.