USA Storm Chasing Expedition - 07 May, 2008


Heading to NE Texas


The storm prediction centers analysis on todays activity.


Geroge and Charles assessing the roads.


How cool is this..


Baseball anyone?


Hail proof vehicle.


Remote camera.


The "Scott McPartland"


Decked out instruments.


Inside a semi-typical storm chaser car.


Now we are down to detailed maps of Texas.


The DOW (Doppler On Wheels) Fuelled up.


The Production crew catching up on a little rest.


Analysing the skies.


Quick...  Time to go... Storms firing up.


George just finishing up a quick piece to camera.


Oh....  Nice...


Here is "Klipsy" aka Oliver looking for rotation.


Tornado...?  No... Just a wall cloud.


The on board radar link, we have just received an update to say that we are in a rotating storm.


Hi Charles... Lets see who can shoot first... (I win)


Rotation above our head.


Traffic Jam..  Kangaroo 1 & 2 jostling for position.


Waiting for a tornado to drop, this storm is now tornado warned.


Ohh....  Getting scarier.


Oh damn..  Traffic.


We gotta get a tornado out of this.


Rotation...  we have rotation.


Cmon...


Nearly there.


Nearly there.................


Never happened.. it came so close, but it didn't drop a funnel.


Other chasers lined up on the side of the road.


A new Supercell popping up


Sun setting.


Clouds in a puddle (at Pizza Hut)