Tour With Silver Lining Tours
June 7th, 2009
Turkeys must be a good omen! On the last two chases each time we have seen wild turkeys and each time very good chases! We traveled four states and 840 miles on day one of our tour. We targeted a lager supercell in Missouri near Oregon city. Great structure on the supercell that would hook like crazy. The upper level shear was great for this storm and rotation just as good, however it never seemed to have the lower level winds getting pulled into the storm to drop a tornado while we were watching. Traveling through the small town of Oregon City there was server damage by large large hail! We got to the town about a half hour after the hail had fallen and it was still the size of baseballs.
Despite the mass chaser convergence that was unbelievable, getting our keys locked in the van while it was running (thanks Roger for having a spare) and just not quite putting down a tornado...all in all was a good day.
Tomorrow it looks like we will be back in Colorado toward the Palmer Divide...
Suaave
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