Frustrating day
Posted May26, 2006 at 08:47 AM
Our storm chase team placed ourselves almost perfectly for erupting supercells in western Indiana on Thursday, but "almost" isn't good enough in hilly, forested terrain with a poor road network. A supercell storm that may have spawned a tornado went up less than 15 miles south of Terre Haute, Indiana, where we had stopped for re-evaluation, but we couldn't get around to the southeast of it where we needed to be before the storm fused into a line and rocketed away.
We're headed back home today. One thing I haven't done that I should is to list the members of our team, who have done a tremendous job in having some amazing storm intercepts in a weather pattern not conducive to a lot of severe weather.
Dave Carroll, Pulaski County High School meteorology teacher, trip co-leader
Seth Price, Virginia Tech alum and New Mexico Tech graduate student, trip co-leader (radio communications)
Me, trip co-leader
Stephanie Taylor, Pulaski County High School senior
Brittany Livingston, Pulaski County High School senior
Paula Flinchum, Pulaski County High School senior
Jacob Carley, North Carolina-Asheville meteorology student, originally of Blacksburg
Amy Harless, UNCA meteorology student
David Ramsaur, UNCA meteorlogy student
Lorenza Cooper, Virginia Tech rising senior
Allison Toney, Virginia Tech rising senior
Beth Owens, Radford University junior
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