Apr 22, 2010
What a SPECTACULAR chase!
Went to OKC to meet up with Steve Miller OK and Ben Holcomb on Wed night to setup for Thursday.
Hans Schroder picked up Steve and I and we headed out with a target of Childress, TX. In the end we were near Goodnight, TX where we were tracking the storm that did produce all the tornadoes. We were intreguied by the southern end of the storm however the tornado reports started coming from further north.
Hans getting out of my shot on the southern end of the storm.
We decided to let this one go and head north to where the reports were coming in… in the end it was a ok choice, we missed the close up that Erik Burns had (We passed him) of the southern storm however did get to see the North before it roped out. As we got setup to record the northern tornado Hans said “ANOTHER TORNADO!” Yep the south had dropped a wonderful cone.
TORNADO #2!
Steve and I made a joke at one point it was sick leaving a tornado because we knew we had to keep up with what was going on up North. We were not in a great spot to get shots of this (this was taken at 200mm) but we did decide to wait for it to rope out.
End of the line for Tornado #2
We went on ahead and booked north to I-40 I don’t know why I stopped using my camera at this point because for some reason I did not take pictures of the rest of the Tornadoes that day. Once on I-40 we found a AWESOME spot to get all the multivortex action in the end of my video on top of a hill with a road that had no other purpose than to get us great video. Great chase!