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Weather Journal

with Kevin Myatt

Wrapping up Storm Chase 2007

Posted May25, 2007 at 08:35 AM

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What a trip this has been! We saw at least two tornadoes, several massive supercell thunderstorms spinning like flying saucers over South Dakota, Kansas and Texas, felt the force of 60-plus mph winds as it whipped dust and debris across Illinois prairies, got pinged by hail three times (but not too much), had some great meals of catfish and steak, and visited Mount Rushmore and Palo Duro Canyon. We scored six successful storm intercepts with no busted chases.

Though we are keeping an eye on severe weather possibilities along our route and to the north as we head eastward today across Arkansas and Tennessee, most likely the chase part of this trip is in the books.

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I'll leave with you a couple of photos to link to from some of our other chasers, including a closeup shot from Virginia Tech student Daniel Burton of the funnel cloud near Hill City, Kan., a bigger version of the inset photo. Earlier we had filmed this same tornado when it was more of a cone shape to our north as we drove through dusty Kansas back roads.

Also, here's a link to the inset photo from North Carolina-Asheville student David Ramsaur, our group's student trainer. The photo shows our chase team and vans under a swirling supercell structure over Kansas on Tuesday.

Click here for additional photos from the chase trip.

Weather Journal columns related to the chase trip can be clicked on here (June 2) and here (June 13)

Once again, here is a list of the members of our 2007 chase team:

Dave Carroll, co-leader, Pulaski County High School teacher and Virginia Tech adjunct instructor
Kevin Myatt, co-leader, Roanoke Times weather columnist
David Ramsaur, student trainer, University of North Carolina-Asheville
Sandy LaCorte, University of North Carolina-Asheville
Tegan Hamblin, Pulaski County High School
Alicia Bayse, Pulaski County High School
Amanda Chambers, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida (she is from Buchanan)
Ross Hudnall, Virginia Tech
Daniel Burton, Virginia Tech
Zach Olin, Virginia Tech
Alex Jochym, Virginia Tech
Adam Smith, Virginia Tech


Audio: Click the play button to hear Dwayne Yancey talk with Kevin Myatt about the final leg of his Midwest storm-chasing trip.


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Kevin Myatt works on the copy desk for The Roanoke Times and is its principal weather geek, writing a weekly weather column and advising the newsroom on weather topics. He helps guide students on a storm chasing trip to the central U.S. each May and was an editor for "Hurricanes and the Middle Atlantic States."

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