Or do they?
From 1 June to 3 June, the states visited by the Vortex2 armada were as follows:
Iowa (once), South Dakota (twice), Nebraska (lost count!), Colorado (once), Kansas (twice)...
1 June was a first for Vortex2--We had a mission in Nebraska, but I never turned on the radar.
2 June was almost a second--We drove from Kansas to Colorado to Nebraska to Kansas. 24 minutes of radar data were collected. This day was a long-shot from the start, so we were not overly disappointed.
3 June was almost a third--Not really, but it seemed to fit in sequence....This day actually looked promising...(by putting actually as a qualifier, you know how this story ends). Southeast South Dakota had the best potential. After a picnic, swim, sail, and nap at the (NO!) Snake River Recreation area, storms began to form just south of the NE/SD border near Naper, NE. For those of you not familiar with this region, there is this little thing called the Missouri River, which needed to be crossed (multiple times!) to intercept the storm du jour. Unfortunately, the storm du jour was not what the waiter told us it would be (he is so fired); instead it was the non-tornadic, outflow-dominated (Shear...where are you...?), rain and lightning producing type of storm. Once again, a good integrated data set was collected by Vortex2 (yeah us! nay weather!).
(BTW, thank you everyone for your comments! I am glad that you are enjoying the blog!)
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Picture 1: (Part of) the armada moving through Kansas (or Nebraska...?)
Picture 2: Erin Jones (Purdue graduate student and Pod Person) wearing pink! Wow! Oh yeah, she is also doing her daily check of the pods before operations.
Picture 3: Justin Walker and his banjo. Full-time CSWR engineer/technician (it suffices to say, he does it all!), DOW6 operator, banjo player, and half-time runner.
Picture 4: The foreign contingent--Rutger Boonstra (he is Netherlandish), The Germanator (Germany, of course!), and the esteemed Dr. Lindsay Bennett (England) enjoying the grass.
Picture 5: The CSWR crew realizing that there really are snakes in the river....
Picture 1: (Part of) the armada moving through Kansas (or Nebraska...?)
Picture 2: Erin Jones (Purdue graduate student and Pod Person) wearing pink! Wow! Oh yeah, she is also doing her daily check of the pods before operations.
Picture 3: Justin Walker and his banjo. Full-time CSWR engineer/technician (it suffices to say, he does it all!), DOW6 operator, banjo player, and half-time runner.
Picture 4: The foreign contingent--Rutger Boonstra (he is Netherlandish), The Germanator (Germany, of course!), and the esteemed Dr. Lindsay Bennett (England) enjoying the grass.
Picture 5: The CSWR crew realizing that there really are snakes in the river....
Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the Night of the Twisters here in Grand Island, NE. There was a tornado warned storm just north of town last night and I wondered who was around. My sister and I drove out after I had dinner with friends to take some photos and passed the TIV going the other direction.
ReplyDeleteSome of us in town were planning a commemorative event for this 30th anniversary but it didn't come together in the end. Otherwise Vortex would have gotten an invitation :-p
Oh Karen, "enjoying the grass" in context with a person from the Netherlands might be an ambiguous term... ;-) (Just kidding, SCNR)
ReplyDeleteI take offense. I do not wear pink (it was red!) :p ;)
ReplyDeleteWow, you guys are the storm tracker. That’s so cool! *o*. You guys must travel a lot for it, huh? I also love to travel, but my parents say traveling won’t earn you anything. I guess now I have enough evidence to prove them wrong. But first, I have to get done with all my essays, so I will have a strong ground to stand on (figuratively, lol). Thankfully, I have the aid of essay help in Washington DC (yes, I live in DC). I hope I can win this argument today. Wish me luck!
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Great story….Keep on sharing… Thanks
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