tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28867159008169724922024-03-05T12:15:43.711-06:00Prairie Wind ChasersNick and Amanda. We track violent skies over the Northern Plains and the Upper Midwest.
Be sure to check out our website for all chase accounts from the past few years. www.prairiewindchasers.weebly.comPrairie Wind Chasershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168438701093599601noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886715900816972492.post-20478894656722913172017-03-07T08:05:00.001-06:002017-03-07T11:13:20.660-06:00March 6, 2017: First Chase of Season / Earliest Tornado Record in MN??<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">March 6 - 2017: Wright County / Mc Leod County to Sherburn County.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">An early spring severe weather outlook day produced large hail and damaging winds; and tornadoes in MN. This will mark the earliest date in MN histroy that a tornado was ever recorded. The previous record for this happening was March 18, 1968.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We left early in the afternoon and targeted Southern Wright County. We intercepted the storm that was racing to the northeast form near Redwood Falls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our storm chasing mascot, Mr. Prairie Dog, was able to get on his very first chase of the 2017 season. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here he is when we were trying to get on the line of storms moving to the northeast.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This picture was taken during the first tornado warning of the 2017 chase season. What a way to star off the season! This storm was in Wright County near Cokato where the storm on radar had a kink in the line, and visually she was turning by no means "much". We never witnessed any funnel or tornado with this storm. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We kept following the storms as they raced to the northeast. Here in this picture is us riding the whales mouth where we blasted east just out ahead of this scorching fast line to take a peak just southwest of Buffalo, MN.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is another look at the storm, now looking north down the road.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We encountered 1.25" hail with this initial cell.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once we heard of the damage reports up near Zimmerman, MN - we blasted north to try and get there prior to it becoming completely dark.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was a serious situation in Sherburne County right near sunset - as it was evident that a very tight couplet presented itself in the bow of the storms with the QLCS line just west of the town of Zimmerman near Orrock. We arrived on scene just moments after the damage was done and encountered numerous large trees snapped and fallen; house and sheds with heavy structural damage, and many large power poles snapped off at their bases. Some barn tin was wrapped and tossed into the tress as well as the power lines. It looked like a tornado could not be ruled out here at this location; based on radar and damage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The MPX NWS will be on scene March 7th to do the damage assessments.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some damage photos:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many rescue vehicles were on scene.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is Mister Prairie Dog with Nick in the background shooting video on scene of the tornado damage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Most information will be posted later about the rating of the tornado when the NWS is finished with their surveys.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Our video from our chase can be viewed here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWZGpGDxnWc&t=20s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWZGpGDxnWc&t=20s</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">National Weather Service - Twin Cities Recap of March 6, 2017 Storms</span><br />
<a href="http://www.weather.gov/mpx/March_06_2017_Severe_Weather_Summary">http://www.weather.gov/mpx/March_06_2017_Severe_Weather_Summary</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Prairie Wind Chasershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168438701093599601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886715900816972492.post-5324407843833917052017-03-07T06:17:00.001-06:002017-03-07T06:17:52.138-06:00JULY 9, 2016 NORTH DAKOTA MONSTER HAIL<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Mister Prairie Dog was happy to see some storms today. He normally likes to see tornadoes; but today he struggled to hoist this 2.5 inch tennis ball hailstone in his arms, that he went bonkers for in North Dakota today.</span><br />
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See our facebooks posts and images from this day on our website!<br />
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<br />Prairie Wind Chasershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168438701093599601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886715900816972492.post-57738231510179904692016-07-28T19:57:00.001-05:002016-07-28T19:57:13.060-05:00May 22-23, 2016: Nebraska and MN<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunday May 22</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the big Leoti Supercell/Tornado day we set up for the next day's target. Northern KS border and NE. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had dinner in North Platte, NE and was watching the radar develop a cell.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of a sudden it popped, grew and became a storm. We got on ti from birth and followed it north on a tar road that turned into a sandy gravel road in where we had to let it go. Uncertainty of getting off the sandy gravel road with the car seemed nill so we went back the way we knew that would bring us back to tar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the sights, sounds and scenery we saw was amazing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We did manage to get this nice picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monday morning we traveled from North Platte, NE to Des Moines Iowa. We stopped to have lunch at our favorite BBQ joint there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We saw that some storms were popping up - so we decided to follow them before heading north back for home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We got to see some nice CG's and tried out the go pro for once.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The above picture is the storm we saw in Iowa prior to heading North towards home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a fun, memory filled weekend!</span>Prairie Wind Chasershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168438701093599601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886715900816972492.post-67075574421605199122016-05-27T09:45:00.002-05:002016-07-28T12:06:08.601-05:00May 21, 2016: Kansas Chase<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nick and I left after work Friday night to position ourselves for Saturday's Setup. Saturday we targeted the town of Sharon Springs, KS to see what the models and parameters woudl have around the lunch hour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We got gas and ate a quick lunch at the 40/27 Gas Staion while looking at model data. We saw that we needed to head south, so we headed towards Tribune, KS. We went East of town a bit and sat. We watched the CU field form. As things started to get going we headed East towards Leoti, KS and a bit north of town. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The cu field we watched exploded into a massive supercell.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">CU field starting to form that afternoon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nick watching the skies for possible development.</span><br />
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We watched this cell near Selkirk. This cell would explode and become the dominat super cell storm that produces multiple tornadoes.<br />
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We followed this cell to the East to Leoti. Then then went north of town.<br />
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Here the majestic supercell showed it's true beauty.<br />
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Start of the storm - rain foots.<br />
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Wall clouds starting to define on the cell.<br />
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Pure luck capturing this smiling lightning arc across the supercell forming in front of our eyes.<br />
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The supercell is starting to tightly assemble into a barberpole spaceship type of look. Taking in inflow from the right.<br />
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The supercell then formed a wall cloud and then soon the tornado appeared.<br />
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Tornado!<br />
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The rain started to shroud the tornado and it quickly lifted afterwards.<br />
We continued to stay with the storm. Here are some more pictures from after the tornado.<br />
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Lightning in the sky after the tornado.<br />
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The mothership and inflow band into the storm.<br />
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Mammatus treated us right at sunset.<br />
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Mammatus treated us right at sunset.<br />
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It was a spectacular day! A day that we will not forget for a while.<br />
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<br />Prairie Wind Chasershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168438701093599601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886715900816972492.post-17485406379029899632016-04-25T10:26:00.000-05:002016-04-25T10:26:16.270-05:00April 24, 2016: First Chase of the 2016 Season<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We saw the slight risk slated for Sunday afternoon and the wording for possible supercells; and said we have to at least try it since it is so close to home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saturday afternoon we headed down to Iowa in search of cones. Ice Cream Cones that is.. at Le Mars, Iowa.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a stop at the Ice Cream Parlor in downtown Le Mars; we set up ourselves with an overnight stop in Sioux City, IA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sunday morning turned our slight risk for a more northerly play along the SD/NE/IA/MN borders. We went west in the late morning and ended up going through heavy rain around Sioux Falls, SD.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The lightning show around Sioux Falls was awesome. Unfortunately we were driving the whole time and the rain was heavy and could not take any pictures.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My our chase mascot was happy he was out for his first chase of the year. It was a good test of the equipment and we are ready to go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bring on the storms Mother Nature!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Our very long time chase mascot: Mister Prairie Dog. Here is his kicking off the 2016 chase season near Nebraska.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">One of the very few, if not only storm, that tried to remain discrete along the dryline in Eastern Nebraska. When we pushed on the other side of the small hail and rain core; we were treated to this great spectacular sky.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the severe weather season starts to ramp up - here are some very important Tornado safety information that you should be aware of.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Every year around this time it is great to brush up on the terminology and prepare ourselves for the upcoming season. Today's topic is below. Stayed tuned the rest of the week for the rest of the topics!</span><br />
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Storms were beginning to build and fire off to our North; so Nick and I went towards the trees of MN and chased the storms that fired between Garrison and Grand Rapids.<br />
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We sat just south of Hill City in an somewhat open field area to watch the approaching storm.<br />
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Once the hail starting coming our way, we dove south just a bit to the road that goes to Lake Waukenabo. We stayed there until the hail got close, we then drove a bit south and let the hail core pass off to our north.<br />
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We drove north to test the winds; and we saw at least dime sized hail along side of the road. We retreated back to the south and to the east a bit to take another look of the storm.<br />
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We stopped by a sunflower field (which is rare this far north!) to take a few photos.<br />
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A fun little chase up in the Northwoods.Prairie Wind Chasershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168438701093599601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886715900816972492.post-46970458463655976392015-07-19T10:39:00.003-05:002015-07-19T10:39:59.897-05:00July 5, 2015: West Central Minnesota Cold Front ChaseWe enjoyed the holiday weekend out in Western MN. We knew there was a chance of storms on Sunday; and with not wanting to head back to the cities any time soon in the afternoon due to all the traffic heading back in; we stuck out in Western MN waiting for the storms to fire.<br />
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The SPC had an enhanced risk out all day for this area.<br />
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A cold front in the Dakotas was crossing and was supposed to fire off storms in the afternoon. The models kept showing the storms blowing up over Western MN. We sat waiting in the hot afternoon; full bore sun near Ortonville, MN.<br />
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We kept watch for any sign of CU to form off to the west.<br />
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We skirted across the border at Ortonville and stopped under a tunnel that went under the railroad bridge. We watched as the storm approached. We thought the hail was coming towards us; but instead it went to the south and west.<br />
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Since we saw the storm just not produce anything, we retreated back across the border to MN and started to head our way home via Hwy 12 to Hwy 9 to Hwy 55.<br />
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The lightning was weak with the storms as well.<br />
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The cold front just stalled and really did not move much at all until way late in the evening.<br />
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Below is a shot of the storm when it was near the town of Corona, SD.<br />
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The storms just could not get themselves going today with the cold front just stalling out. we headed on back to the cities the back roads as I94 was still full of slow holiday traffic.<br />
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<br />Prairie Wind Chasershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168438701093599601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886715900816972492.post-41129218975677827682015-07-19T10:33:00.002-05:002015-07-19T10:33:17.919-05:00July 12, 2015: Western MN Moderate Risk Tornado DaySince Saturday morning we knew that Western MN would be a big show day - and possible the most severe day in Minnesota this year.<br />
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We went out to the farm after stopping by Jessica Becker's graduation party in Buffalo.<br />
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We went to watch the fireworks show in Morris for the Prairie Pioneer Days. Below is a couple of shots from the show.<br />
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Sunday - we woke up to moderate risk; and started to make sure the people was aware of the situation that could unfold that afternoon. Two big events were in the area. Big Stone County Fair in Clinton and the Prairie Pioneer Days in Morris, MN.<br />
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With the car set up and all the batteries charged - we set out for Fairmount, ND to wait things out. We had a quick lunch at the gas station and then went and sat and waiting just outside town. We had a few pop up showers come over us, but the cu field was trying to go.</div>
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We headed back east to Hwy 75 and went a bit north and sat on a dirt road. This cell was starting to look like it could do something.. and sure enough - we saw a small needle funnel.</div>
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A few minutes later this small needle funnel appeared.</div>
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We went further up the north on Hwy 75 and quickly pulled off by a farmers house; as we saw rapid circulation. As soon as we got out of the car, the tornado appeared. We were looking to the northwest in these following shots. This was just south of the small town of Duran, MN</div>
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Shot as it was appearing out from the farmers grove<br />
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Getting a better view of the circulation on the ground - whole storm shot.<br />
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Tighter shot of the tornado as it was near the edge of the grove<br />
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The tornado quickly was dissipating - and soon would be gone right after this.<br />
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Complete rope out stage.<br />
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A rule to always to keep your head on a swivel - another tornado was formed and on the ground to our southeast of our location.<br />
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Looking Southeast towards the near tornado that did not last very long.<br />
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After this we tried to head east to keep up with the storm. We followed it out of Doran, MN - and continued east. We started to run into hail so we dropped back and bit and tried to find a road heading south. We ended up going to Wheaton on some back roads; then onto Hwy 27 towards Herman, MN.<br />
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Outside of Herman, MN along Hwy 27 we ran into Eric Whitehill. We stopped and chatted, and observed the storm from here.<br />
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Wannabe cloud - a scud tag hanging from the base of the storm.<br />
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In Starbuck we stopped to get gas and then went south of town as another tornado warning was issued.<br />
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Shot of the storm as it was going over Lake Minnewaska.<br />
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From here we left the storm. It was starting to go into a line and we wanted to stay ahead of the rain. we made it into the cities around 11pm that night and the rain was just on our tail. We quickly unpacked the necessary items to not leave in the car and called it a night and watched the rain and wind come down.</div>
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The Big Stone County Fair thanked us for keeping them in the loop for any potential severe weather and was glad that nothing came there way.</div>
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It was a fun little chase day!</div>
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<br />Prairie Wind Chasershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168438701093599601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886715900816972492.post-29822929678398466142015-07-18T22:09:00.001-05:002015-07-20T13:19:15.539-05:00July 17, 2015 Eastern South Dakota Huge Hail & Cool SkiesWe saw that the SPC put our favorite chasing spot: Western Minnesota and Eastern South Dakota into a slight risk for Friday. Nick looked at the models and said - we need to be on this.<br />
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We left the Cities at 11:30am - and was in Eastern South Dakota by 3pm. We watched the birth of the cu field all the way from Glenwood, MN. Once we saw the first blip show up on radar near Britton, SD we knew that was the dominant cell.<br />
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We made it to Britton and saw Large hail was coming our way. We escaped to cover under the canopy at a local gas station. The first wave of hail came through with dime sized up to quarter sized hail. Then it rained some. Some people thought it was all over with. Mother Nature had another plan. Round 2 of the hail came through and it packed a mean punch. We saw the smallest size of quarter and the largest up to Tennis Ball sized hail. 3.00 inches!<br />
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huge hailstones the fell in Britton</div>
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The power went off at the local gas station as the rain and hail just poured.<br />
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Finally the hail let up that we were able to head out. We went around town to see if there was any damage. We found some localized flooding; and many 3.0 inch hailstone scattered about the town.<br />
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We knew that we wanted to get on the south west side of the storm to see if this thing had any tornado potential with it. We tried to get south but there was no great option of roads East of Britton and the storm kept going along Hwy 10. We had no choice to follow it behind the large hail; stopping when we got so close and had to back off from the storm. We tried to head south on a gravel road and east and ALMOST got the car stuck. We knew then to stick to the tar roads unless the gravel was dry.<br />
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We had many rewards for stopping and waiting for the storm to proceed east. More baseball sized hailstones. Mammatus Field over the top of our heads. The close lightning strike that was 200 yards away when we stopped to talk with Doug who also was filming the huge hailstones. That was crazy.<br />
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Mammatus field looking to the west.</div>
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A selection of the hailstones we found along side of the highway.</div>
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Hail measuring 2.00 inch and larger</div>
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Larger than a golfball!</div>
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When we finally reached the outer limits of Sisseton, SD we were finally able to head south on a nice road. We wanted to head towards the Peever exit off the freeway so we could blast south to the Wilmont exit to cross the border at ortonville.<br />
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Looking over the Sisseton Valley Hill at the storm</div>
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We stopped at the road that head to Peever to view the storm that was out to our west - tornado warned. The lightning had many CG's and we stopped to take video and pictures. It was awesome.<br />
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We then took the freeway south to the Wilmont exit where we again headed west a bit on the gravel road to try and see the storm that was producing the rain wrapped tornado off to the west. we got to the top of the gravel hill; the view was amazing - but the lightning was starting to become more frequent and being on top of that high hill - we booked it east to continue towards Wilmont.<br />
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Looking West towards the tornado warned storm.</div>
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We stopped when we turned on Hwy 109 to photography the nice shelf cloud that was forming on the Eastern South Dakota side.<br />
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We then proceeded a little bit further down the road - and got this amazing shot of the mothership.<br />
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We crossed into Minnesota and knew we had to take cover when this beast crossed the border. We took refuge in a do it yourself car wash on top of the hill in ortonville. We were joined by local folks who too were also riding out the wind and hail that was coming towards our way.<br />
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After the storm passed - we set out east to photography some wicked crawler in the night sky from the storm passing to the ESE.<br />
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One of the many crawlers that was captured above the corn as the storms moved to the ESE.</div>
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After the storm just went too far out of our reach for photos - we packed up and headed up to the farm for the night.<br />
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Saturday morning we knew of damage from a tornado report in the town of Waubay. We traveled there in the morning and saw the extensive damage to the trees along the main street; as well as some structural damage; bins down, and campers turned over and destroyed.<br />
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The local Red Cross had set up shop to provide assistance for those who needed it. Day County Emergency Services were also on hand, as well as the local Sheriff. Everyone was on clean up duty. The town also had its local doings this weekend and all that fun and play was put on hold to clean up the town and make the roads passable again.<br />
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Huge trees were uprooted and tipped over - all laying to the east.<br />
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We talked with a local resident on his modular house that was shifted an inch off the foundation from the wind. They just finished the deck on the house and now the big tree branch decided it had other ideas for this deck. There was also a huge branch that was penetrating into the side of the wall. The owner said there was damage to the roof and that 4 rooms in the house sustained extensive water damage. The lucky thing was that no one was home at the time of the storm and no one was hurt.<br />
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We went out to the lakeside campground where many campers were destroyed. We also saw 1 power pole snapped off at its base and was laying down - wires still intact.<br />
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We relayed gps coordinates back to the Aberdeen weather service office for their assessment purposes later on.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A day like this comes around few and far between - and one that you will never forget in life. This day is one of those days that both Nick and I will never forget!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We woke up in Grand Forks, North Dakota Saturday morning. We stopped at Tim Hortons for a treat and coffee. We then proceeded up to Amanda's friends farm: Lesley Cull - near Cavalier, North Dakota.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had to make a stop in Cavalier because there was just so many tell tailing sings that seemed to fit the day. Tornado Road? Boundary Road? Home of the Tornadoes? Even a Tornado flavored treat??? IT HAD TO BE A SIGN!</span></div>
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The mighty elk statue stood atop of the overlook near Walhalla, ND</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After our short mini tour we ended back up at her house - where we saw the skies start bubbling with CU.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since we had radar up - Nick told the group big hail is coming - we need to move South. So we packed up and booked it south to avoid the large hail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once we got south of the storm and on the south west side of it - we pulled off near the town of Gardar where I spotted a small funnel cloud. The funnel cloud then started the series of tornadoes that we saw the rest of that day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This small funnel quickly produced a rope tornado - we headed south on County 32 to stay away from the large hail.</span><br />
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View of the rope tornado just to our west - south of Edinburg, ND.</div>
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The tornado reaching for the ground.</div>
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A tall view of the storm producing the tornado just south of Edinburg, ND.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.mnwxchaser.com/2015images/150627/15june27.html" target="_blank">Bill Doms</a> was right with us when we watched this beautiful tornado just churn up cinnamon fields from west to east - just north of us. What a memorable day to share with a close friend!</span><br />
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The tornado as it approached from the east.<br />
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One of my favorite shots of the day. The tornado just east of the road - Bill Doms is in the vehicle in the frame where he too is documenting this remarkable day!</div>
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right after crossing the road it picks up the dust/dirt once again.</div>
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A view of it as it just crossed the road</div>
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The tornado now moving east across a field</div>
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Nick filming the tornado as it passed to the east.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the tornado went east - we continued south. Bill ended up going east after it - and we connected back up with Eric Whitehill as we continued south on County 32; trying to connect up with the next tornadic cell on radar near Logan Center.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We truly believe that a circulation "albeit -weak" was in contact with the ground with this meso, west of Fairmount, North Dakota in Richland county just before the sun set.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was actually the most scary moment of the entire day as a bowl formed and lowered on the meso just as the RFD winds took off and moments later, really appears to be a ground scraping rain wrapped circulation. The tree damage and debris that we drove through support this; as well as the velocity scans at the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bill Doms was also on this storm and witnessed this storm peak in this local area as well. you can take a look at his blog post from this day at the following link:<a href="https://www.blogger.com/%C2%A0http://mnwxchaser.com/2015images/150627/15june27.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"> <span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;">http://mnwxchaser.com/2015images/150627/15june27.html</span></span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is our video of the Richland event from this time: <a href="https://youtu.be/RDUGScYHkWY"><span style="color: red;">https://youtu.be/RDUGScYHkWY</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 tornadoes for the day. We followed this beast of the storm all the way to the farm where we warned my parents and people impacted by the storm that large hail was a possibility.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The wind driven hail just hit east of my parents farm; destroying the bean crop at my Uncle's and shredding the corn stalks in the neighboring fields.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Odessa on another cell; they had huge hail come through where it destroyed vehicles; siding and crops. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This will be one day we will be talking about for years to come - and a day we will never forget.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NWS Grand Forks just recently released the tornado outbreak and ratings for this day. You can read it all here: <span style="color: red;"> <a href="http://www.weather.gov/fgf/June272015TabSummary"><span style="color: red;">http://www.weather.gov/fgf/June272015TabSummary</span></a></span></span></div>
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Prairie Wind Chasershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168438701093599601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886715900816972492.post-46615211919446045312015-07-04T11:16:00.001-05:002015-07-05T11:48:34.115-05:006-24-2015: Spearfish, South Dakota Hail<div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are a few shots that we took as we were heading south back to Spearfish before getting into town.</span></div>
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The storm highway continues across the Northern Plains. Here is a shot of the supercell as it headed east towards Rapid City, South Dakota. This cell produced the dime to up to golf ball sized hail in Spearfish, South Dakota.</div>
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You can view our video here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qkAh89nqRk" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qkAh89nqRk</a></div>
Prairie Wind Chasershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168438701093599601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886715900816972492.post-37433906495399036732015-07-04T11:03:00.002-05:002015-07-04T11:03:51.188-05:00June 23, 2015: North Dakota to South Dakota Afternoon Storms<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Nick waiting on the storms in rural North Dakota.</div>
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On our way southward towards Spearfish, South Dakota we stopped at this side rest to read about the Crow Buttes. Interesting story!Prairie Wind Chasershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168438701093599601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886715900816972492.post-41584559922743241312015-07-04T10:49:00.004-05:002015-07-05T11:53:32.069-05:00June 22/23, 2015: North Dakota Northern Lights Show<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The morning northern lights show gave us some amazing pictures, and an experience that we will never forget!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>We went northwest of Dickinson, North Dakota to the heart of the badlands and the Buttes to shoot the northern sky.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>An intense G4 storm with a KP index of 8 led to an unforgetable sky over the open butte county of North Dakota. The aurora's danced and put on a display like no other.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br />We listened to the several packs of coyotes howling and yelping in the dark; in 3 different locations in the rugged terrain of the area.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The trees and the buttes made for a wonderful backdrop to the skies above this timeless region.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The night was just simply AWE.... and inspiring.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>It was one that Nick and I will never forget!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We drove out to Bismarck from the farm that morning. We knew that later in the day we would see severe storms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We stopped at the first of the enchanted highway sculptures - Geese in Flight; to watch on radar and in the distant a storm that was slowly coming our way.</span><br />
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The infamous Geese in Flight right off Interstate 94 at the Gladstone Exit.</div>
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Geese In Flight.</div>
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Geese metal sculptures line the drive up to the Geese in Flight </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What was left of the storm from the west approaching the geese in flight sculpture area off interstate 94 at the gladstone exit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We then proceeded to head south on the enchanted highway towards Regent. We saw some other cells coming from Montana off in the distance that were heading east that we thought we could get on down towards south of Regent.</span></div>
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The grasshopper sculpture with the stormy skies behind it.</div>
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Pheasant family alongside the road.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When we got to Regent - we headed west on County Road 21. Here we saw the approaching storm from the west. It didn't look great visually.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Looking west on County Road 21.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We then headed east along this road towards Mott, Elgin, up to where it turned north and turned into County Road 6. A mean cell was racing along the interstate towards Bismarck - and we wanted to be on the southern edge of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we sat along County Road 6 - we let it overcome us. Here is what it looked like when it approached from the west.</span><br />
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The leading razor edge that happened on this storm as this beast was bearing down on Bismarck, North Dakota.</div>
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Damaging straight line winds of 70 MPH and wind driven golf ball sized hail was with this storm.</div>
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Here is the shot that was south and west of Mandan, North Dakota. This was likely the beginning of a long lasting Multi-state MCS that happened downstream into South Dakota and Minnesota to Wisconsin on Monday.</div>
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We let the storm overcome us - and after it passed we were treated to some amazing sights.</div>
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And an amazing sunset!!!</div>
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One of my favorite shots was the blue sky next to the back edge of the cell and a rainbow on the edge.</div>
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Sunset after the storm</div>
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<br />This back edge cell was complete with the magic moment of lighting, a glowing well cultivated mammatus field and a full double rainbow as the sun set on the 2015 Summer Solstice.</div>
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Double rainbow shot to end the day!</div>
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You can also view our video footage form the day from the following link:</div>
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Prairie Wind Chasershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168438701093599601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886715900816972492.post-70561013529085840972015-07-04T10:12:00.000-05:002015-07-05T12:01:26.940-05:006-19-2015: South Dakota MagicWe started out our chase vacation by doing it right! - A little bit of South Dakota Magic!<br />
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We were watching models and radar all morning; until mid day we start to see warning pop up in Central Minnesota for hail and wind. We saw the cells were moving to the SE near Watertown; so we hurried up and left the farm and headed West.<br />
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We went west of Brookings and stopped just south of Hwy 81 and watched the cell come closer. It produced some neat colors in the sky.<br />
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The cell approaching from the West.</div>
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Looking off to the west.</div>
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Awesome colors were produced before the shelf cloud came closer. Here Nick is filming the shelf cloud approaching.</div>
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The leading edge approaching from the Northwest.</div>
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As the shelf started to approach close; and the lightning got closer we saw also that the big hail was getting closer. So we booked it to the South to Madison, SD. We looked for a place to ride out the hail to make sure we could escape once the storm approached town.</div>
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We got video and pics of the approaching shelf cloud coming into town.</div>
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This spectacular beauty shown below was on the west end of Madison, South Dakota.</div>
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<br />This storm produced wind damages in town (tree branches down) and gold ball sized hail.</div>
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The approaching shelf coming into town.</div>
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Nick and I about to be taken over by the mother like ship in Lake county near Madison, South Dakota. This beast was dramatic with the intense colors as it morphed in shape while maintaining its intensity across Kingsbury and Lake Counties.</div>
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Later that night the main deracho started coming across North Dakota - with winds at 80 MPH at Bismark around 9pm that night. It never stayed storng when i t came across Minnesota later that night. Here is a shot of the velocity scan from Bismark at 9pm.</div>
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<br />Prairie Wind Chasershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168438701093599601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886715900816972492.post-80922701512410990072015-07-04T09:45:00.002-05:002015-07-05T12:02:02.682-05:00June 9, 2015: Small chase after work<br />
Small pop up showers producing large hail and winds were popping up in Central Minnesota. We went out to Hasty, MN and got into the cell that came through there.<br />
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We only was able to capture the rainbow as the storms passed in the Northeast Metro.<br />
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These are the only shots that I was able to take from the little chase. The back edge of the cell produce a full rainbow as the sun started to fade.<br />
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<br />Prairie Wind Chasershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168438701093599601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886715900816972492.post-50153766157225885122015-07-04T09:35:00.000-05:002015-07-05T12:07:26.858-05:00June 6, 2015: Nebraska<br />
This day the Storm Prediction Center placed an enhanced risk out for Eastern Nebraska. The talk was that tornadoes could happen. They even threw out the 10% hatched for tornadoes.<br />
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It started a fun, relaxed chase day early on and seemed more and more all day that something BIG was going to happen. All based on these things we saw coming together.<br />
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But it turns out we were correct all along, it just ended up being a fun chase day even though we were hoping it would produce and isolated tornado or two.<br />
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We were on the initial cell near O'Neill and Page; which showed healthy signs of rotation. It even produced one legit funnel cloud but it could never become a full tornado.<br />
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It was still good to be back on the plains - with great company and friends, and back on some severe storms!<br />
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Below are some pictures from the day.<br />
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The beginning of this initial supercell beast just Northwest of Page in Holt County Nebraska.</div>
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Brief tiny funnel cloud that entertained us for a few seconds near the town of Page. It never did much of anything else afterward. You can see the cool clear slot on the edge of the occlusion.</div>
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Making a run at it - just north of Paige, Nebraska. It tried, but it just couldn't fully produce a tornado which to all of use was very surprising!</div>
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This is a good skywarn slide. This is scud. It is a funnel look alike. It was actually doing a wild upward rising motion into the updraft base. There was rotation at times, but it produced it way earlier in the day before going through all of the cycling.</div>
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Large scud tag once again... going up into the updraft base just north or Royal, Nebraska.</div>
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<br />Prairie Wind Chasershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168438701093599601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886715900816972492.post-64881029410362944182015-07-02T12:39:00.001-05:002015-07-02T12:39:38.436-05:005-17-2015: Central Minnesota Chase<br />
May 17th, 2015.<br />
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We sat in Buffalo, MN awaiting towering cumulus to pop up. There was a chance of storms in the area today. After missing out on the tornadoes yesterday, we thought we would give it a shot.<br />
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Here is the start of the thunderstorms that popped up in Central Minnesota that day.<br />
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Overlooking Buffalo Lake in Buffalo, MN</div>
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We didn't see a whole lot with these storms as they really didn't produce, small hail and lots of rain is all we saw. We headed home to the Twin Cities later that afternoon.</div>
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Here is a few pictures from the rest of the day.</div>
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We stayed the night in Pierre, SD in position for Saturday's storms.<br />
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Saturday proved to be hard as well with the models telling us to move east - and continue to move east. Our targets changed on the fly. We made the best of what the Prairie Coteau of Northeast South Dakota offered to us.<br />
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We missed out on the tornadoes back in western Minnesota - but are thankful no big damage occurred and was happy for our fellow chasers who experience these storms.<br />
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We instead were treated to some low topped supercell structures and at times - the storms trying to produce but just couldn't along the warm front draped across South Dakota.<br />
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Below are some of the pictures from the day.<br />
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Chippewa County Minnesota, tornado warned at this time.</div>
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<br />Prairie Wind Chasershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168438701093599601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886715900816972492.post-49462777253047806552015-05-20T11:02:00.001-05:002015-05-20T11:12:12.452-05:00May 10th, 2015: South Dakota Mother's Day ChaseNick and I officially kicked off the storm chase season by setting up shop Saturday night in Sioux Falls, SD. We didn't want to venture in Southern Kansas with not the possibility of getting back up to NE Nebraska/Southern SD in time for Sunday.<br />
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Instead we went and visited Blue Mounds State Park; where we hiked a few trails and saw numerous of birds along the way.<br />
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For Sunday we targeted Southern SD and watched the cells fire in Nebraska and head south towards the border.<br />
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It was a day where things just didn't quite end of right. We were able to get on cells that were not warned on; and missed the tornado that touched down in the town of Delmont, SD in the morning; as well as the one on the SD/IA border that a few others captured.<br />
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It was a fun chase day however; and we were able to fully test out the equipment in full chase mode.<br />
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Below are some pictures from the day.<br />
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Shot looking to the west of the low topped cells of the day in the afternoon.<br />
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Low topped convection trying again to do something; with the warm front earlier that afternoon. It was struggling significantly near the town of Parker, SD.<br />
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the closest this cell came to try to produce anything; but just couldn't. The cell was moving North and was headed toward I-90 near Mitchell, SD.Prairie Wind Chasershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13168438701093599601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2886715900816972492.post-45070079672299065112015-04-22T10:28:00.004-05:002015-04-22T10:28:58.102-05:00April 12, 2015: First Chase of the SeasonAfter the MN Severe Storms Conference on Saturday, we were itching to see some storms. The Storm Prediction Center put out a Marginal risk for up into Southern MN/Central MN.<br />
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The marginal risk was mostly for marginal hail and wind with any storm that would fire on the cold front.<br />
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Nick and I set out after Noon for destination Stearns County. We were watching radar and saw a nice little more isolated cell started to come up from the Southwest. We went to Hwy 23 and into the town of Richmond.<br />
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There we experienced small pea sized to pencil eraser sized hail; and heavy downpour of rain.<br />
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These little storms were moving northeast fast - and they kept popping up along this line.<br />
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We followed this storm up Hwy 23 to Pleasant Lake near St. Cloud. There we dropped the storm and went back South to see about getting on another semi-isolated cell coming up.<br />
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Near Kimball; we went through heavy rain and very small hail. Here we then left the storms be and heading East back towards home.<br />
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Below are some additional pictures from the day.<br />
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Rain shaft clearly visible with this storm.<br />
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Severe weather however, is not that far away. Tornadoes and Severe Storms have already occurred as close as Illinois - hitting a small town of Fairdale.<br />
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That town - could be any town in MN. Are you prepared? Are you ready?<br />
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April 13 - 17th is Severe Weather Awareness Week in MN. Each day has different topics for you to become more weather aware and prepared for the upcoming storm season.<br />
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Below is an article that Nick wrote. Remember - be safe, be ready and be prepared.<br />
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