Forwarded from the Field:
Jason Breakiron
Meso Chase Team
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MESOmomma{at}aol.com Subject: MESO Chase Log May 22
Once again, apologies for the lack of pix on our web page...please go to
www.allandetrich.com
<A HREF="http://www.allandetrich.com/bk.htm">Day 11</A> were our pix are
currently posted.
May 22
We started the day KNOWING that nothing would
happen. We all made plans for the day: laundry, naps, film developing,
vehicle maintenance. We first had our annual business meeting, where in
we discussed where we are, where we want to be, and how we intend to get
there. Basically, we will be reformatting our mission statement, with
more of an emphasis on public education and safety programs.
I don't know who realized it first, as about 5
computers were running, checking data, watching "just in case," but we
started seeing signs of convection in the NE, towards the Tulsa area.
After a minimal amount of discussion, we went mobile...deploying in
record time, and were soon zooming down the road to the NE. It wasn't
long before we realized that we would have to chase into Arkansas. This
is something we would never have even thought of, as the terrain is
terrible for chasing. But we had chaser fever, and with the weather
being what it has been, we couldn't let any opportunity escape.
It felt marvelous to be on the road for
something other than sightseeing, and if you could have run adreanaline
indices, they would have been off the scale.
The first cell popped up quickly, managing
to birth three overshooting tops before it died out, each popping up
after its ancestor collapsed.
But the NEXT one! The another formed slightly
behind it, and exploded into one of the most gorgeous LP Supercells ever
to be see by man. It was lit incredibly, very crisp, and the updraft
tower was tilted and rotating visibly. It produced several small and
very temporary funnels, and a b-wer and hook detected by our new roof
mounted X band radar, which also was able to detect the range of the
storm.
By now, we had committed to the storm, and
couldn't break off, even as we chased it further and further into
Arkansas. We felt as though we "owned" this storm, and chased it till it
was obscured by the approaching evening. Darkness caught up with us, and
we said farewell to our storm, possibly the largest and most beautiful
we had ever persued. Shortly after the traditional "high five's" and
reaccounts of the events of the day, we came to the realization that we
had wondered some 200 miles from Norman, where we were currently based.
The trip home is always a long one, but spirits were high. We had had
our first active chase as a fully deployed team, and we had done well.
Another victory: our young French camera man has
been converted from an objective observer to a stone cold storm junkie.
Nancy Bose
<A HREF="http://www.mcwar.org/">MESO</A>
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