The pictures and videos that came in from the tornadoes yesterday in Western Oklahoma are nothing short of amazing. Congrats to everyone that scored.

The most amazing video came from Andy Gabrielson who got close to the tornado as it went through Hammon, OK. You can see structures being destroyed, and lots of debris flying through the air. I have a feeling we'll be seeing more of this video in shows for years to come.

I went through GEMPAK, and pulled a model sounding for Hammon, OK at about the same time as the tornado yesterday:

There is absolutely no way I could have chased yesterday, even if I was in Oklahoma. I have been sick this past weekend and into today, and have been slowly trying to get better. I was way too sick to spend any amount of time in a car chasing tornadoes yesterday. I am still insanely jealous, and wish I could have been there, but overall any disappointment falls on the fact that I sat at home sick than anything else.

It appears the city of Longview, TX or just east had a tornado rip through this afternoon. What prompted me to blog about it, though, was the insane hook-echo on the Shreveport Radar at 2242 UTC as pictured below.

Hopefully everyone that was affected by this is alright!

I have been keeping this in the back of my mind since June 5th, and it's something I've pondered. With the June 5th episode of Storm Chasers airing tonight, I thought today was as good of a time as any to blog about this.

While I was chasing Friday, there was apparently 3 tornadoes which have been confirmed by the National Weather Service in Grand Rapids, MI just a couple miles from where I was at the time.

I will be posting a full chase account later on today. I watched the storms come ashore near St. Joseph, MI and then headed up north towards Holland. These Tornadoes would have been on the ground while I was going up I-196 along the Lake Michigan shoreline. I would have been in Van Buren County for all 3, which is the county south of Allegan and the county west of Kalamazoo county.

0140 4 E PULLMAN ALLEGAN MI 4247 8601 EF2 TORNADO ON THE GROUND FOR 5.7 MILES. ONE QUARTER MILE WIDE. TOUCHED DOWN AT 940 PM. LIFTED AT 946 PM. HOUSE DESTROYED FROM NUMEROUS FALLEN TREES. PARTIAL ROOF TORN (GRR)

This is the video from my video camera yesterday near Cedar Hill, TX. I will be typing up a chase recap tomorrow, but need some sleep tonight.

This is part of the video David Drummond and myself shot yesterday near Cedar Hill, TX which is about 45 minutes Northeast of Lubbock. All in all, we have about 45 minutes of Tornado footage to go through, and will be getting some of the best stuff up and online in the days to come.

** Update: Here is the footage from my camera **

Chased today east of Plainfield, TX and intercepted an amazing and intense tornado. We are still cutting our video, but I have this up as a teaser for now.

More to come later!!! INSANE!!!!!!!

This is video of an amazing cone tornado taken today in Murfreesboro, TN. Today was the first HIGH RISK of 2009, and the Tennessee valley has been lit up with Tornado Warnings all day.

The National Weather Service in Nashville also issued a rare TORNADO EMERGENCY for this storm.

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