Monday, May 09, 2016

Storm chasers have been killed.

The feeder system was somewhat limited to the tornado, but, it was a half mile wide. There have been feeder systems within the last six months that extended far outside the tornado shadow. Some of the tornadoes have pulled tractor trailers over at a distance on a highway.

I think this is irresponsible. The view below has cars in the picture for scale, but, the storm looks like a haboob at this point.

May 9, 2016
By Enjoli Francis


Storm chaser Gabe Cox (click here) today described the "awe-inspiring" tornado he captured on video this weekend as he and driver Scott Peake traveled through Colorado, on the lookout for twisters.
Cox said that he and Peake had not been expecting to see much Saturday evening as they set out on their trek, equipped with Doppler radar and forecast models.
"The ingredients for tornadoes was kind of marginal," Cox told ABC News today, "and so when we saw the storm developing, it was definitely a surprise to us at how big and how powerful this tornado ended up being."...