TORNADO!!!

[JustAnEngineer]

CNN was running live video footage of one of these storms from a news helicopter with a gyro-mounted camera. Very scary!

 

[John L]

Incredible shot....I would love to go with the storm chasers and see if I could get something like this.

 

[Parkerman]

Very Nice shot... how far away was it?

Kansas is good for that though, you can see a tornado from a distance and still not be in major danger.. I mean.. You are in more danger than if you were in a spot you couldnt see it. Here in Alabama you can just be going along and one pops out behind a hill... lol.

 

[PhotoDonkey]

Eh. You can do better. Go back and shoot it again.

Just kidding.

Awesome shot. Did you have to clean out your shorts afterwards?

 

[Big Bully]

Holy freakin cow! That is an awesome capture! I have been in a hurricane (when I was a kid) and was driving in Missouri while a Tornado touched down quite a ways away. My husband was walking around in Missouri once and down the road there was an F-5 tornado ripping crap up. Way freakin cool though. Now that I am into photography, I would love to photograph one.
Any advice on how to go about it though?

 

[Big Bully]

more from the 2 days can be seen here...

http://www.wxnut.net/blogtoc.htm

As of today it is the top two entries on the page.

Doug Raflik

How big were those tornados? And how wide?

 

[passerby]

Oh man what a shot, lucky you. Next time you should wait until it came close and you jump in into the cortex to be spun. The famous Australian birds called Galah love to do that. When they were spat out later on they're all lying down drunk. When they recovered they flew and chased the tornado back to have another spin. Try it and let us know what is like in there, and of course show us the inner circle side of the photos too.

Happy spinning

 

[Mohain]

wow, great stuff. Lol at capsertodd's comment. Cool capture

 

[Big Bully]

Oh man what a shot, lucky you. Next time you should wait until it came close and you jump in into the cortex to be spun. The famous Australian birds called Galah love to do that. When they were spat out later on they're all lying down drunk. When they recovered they flew and chased the tornado back to have another spin. Try it and let us know what is like in there, and of course show us the inner circle side of the photos too.

Happy spinning

Sounds like someone needs to put a video camera on the birds, that way we could see what happens.

 

[PhilGarber]

woa.. are you like one of those CNN payed stormchaser's?

 

[MarcusM]

Nice shot! There are some absolutely stunning tornado shots on your site. I especially like the classic-looking tornadoes, and that one must be a couple miles high!

 

[wxnut]

I've wanted to do this since I've moved to Oklahoma. I never had the chance when I was in Pennsylvania as we didn't have them. How do you go about this? I would imagine a small TV and watch the news to find out where the circulation is and go ahead of it?

The best way to go about it is asking a vetren chaser if you can ride along. Offer to pay for gas. You then get to learn whats involved. You can find a ton of chasers here...

http://www.stormtrack.org/forum

Or you can make a mini vacation out of it and go on a chase tour group. This one is the best out there...

http://www.tempesttours.com/

You get drivin around for 7 to 10 days chasing storms.

Doug Raflik

 

[wxnut]

Very Nice shot... how far away was it?

QUOTE]

2 miles away.

 

[wxnut]

woa.. are you like one of those CNN payed stormchaser's?

Nope. Just an expensive hobby.

 

[maytay20]

Awesome shots!! Man that would have scared the crap out of me. I like the on were you can read the sign that says travel at your own risk and the tornado is almost on the road.