Facebook Timeline Posts For June 2015
(Posts And Comments During June 2015 For Sky-Chaser Chris Collura On Facebook)
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Posts And Comments For June 2015
Posted: Jun 30, 2015, 6:25 PM
Chris Collura commented on Dalton Do's post.
Posted: Jun 30, 2015, 1:37 PM
Chris Collura commented on a post.
Posted: Jun 30, 2015, 1:33 PM
Chris Collura commented on Edwin F. Barbosa's photo.
Wow ... hard with the hard-to-resist Latin food too.
Kick diabetes in the Azz!
Posted: Jun 30, 2015, 1:31 PM
Chris Collura commented on a post.
Posted: Jun 29, 2015, 3:50 PM
http://en.nametests.com/test/result/chris/612503562/index_new/
Posted: Jun 29, 2015, 3:46 PM
Chris Collura replied to Joel Ewing's comment.
Oh ... again ... those vans!
Posted: Jun 29, 2015, 3:44 PM
Chris Collura replied to Brett Nickeson's comment.
Remember in 2012 gas in Nebraska and only NE was like $4.19 and every where else it was $3.09 (CO, KS, etc)?
Posted: Jun 29, 2015, 3:42 PM
Chris Collura commented on Scott Bennett's photo.
I fueled up in Aurora, IL a few weeks back and the sign said $3.19 but while fueling up the pump said $2.89. Not bad and never said "boo" :)
Posted: Jun 29, 2015, 3:40 PM
Chris Collura commented on Daniel Shaw's post.
Cold down under? Winter :(
Posted: Jun 29, 2015, 3:38 PM
Chris Collura commented on Bill Hark's photo.
This is a thermal pushing upwards into a moist stable inversion above it ... the thermal "bubble" acts as the mountain in this case...
Posted: Jun 29, 2015, 3:26 PM
Chris Collura commented on Charles Edwards's photo.
Yeah Scott Peake, and this doesn't require a robust data stream either! Just soap and water...
Posted: Jun 29, 2015, 3:24 PM
Chris Collura commented on Doug Kiesling's post.
I thought chase season is over. Not.
Posted: Jun 29, 2015, 1:11 PM
Chris Collura commented on Jason Foster's post.
Make sure it's not near the Ocala "tourist trap" alley where cash is advertised the same as credit on the sign UNTIL you start pumping the gas and realize you need to buy oranges or alligator key chains to get the cash price :(
Posted: Jun 29, 2015, 12:43 PM
Chris Collura commented on Josh Morgerman's post.
Posted: Jun 29, 2015, 9:51 AM
Chris Collura commented on Travel + Leisure's link.
Surprised to see Chicago in there. At least it's #15 so that makes it the friendliest in the group. Miami should be number 1.
Posted: Jun 29, 2015, 9:25 AM
Chris Collura commented on Luis Alberto LLense's post.
Posted: Jun 29, 2015, 9:22 AM
Chris Collura commented on Blake Michaleski's post.
Seen that from the air ... ocean front.
Posted: Jun 29, 2015, 9:19 AM
Chris Collura commented on Charles Edwards's photo.
Let's see it doing a bubble-nado!
Posted: Jun 29, 2015, 9:18 AM
Chris Collura commented on a post.
Posted: Jun 29, 2015, 8:34 AM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Regardless of what the hell is going on politically or socially as a whole ... Try more to focus more on yourself.
Do too many favors or be too nice to some friends and family (big words here is TOO NICE ... Something my mom always resented me for) ... Then YOU will be the one looking like a total IDIOT.
Posted: Jun 29, 2015, 7:22 AM
Chris Collura commented on Caryn Hill's photo.
Posted: Jun 29, 2015, 7:17 AM
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Posted: Jun 29, 2015, 7:13 AM
Chris Collura commented on Daniel Shaw's photo.
I'm very happy I got to see you out there (near Limon on may 22 I think it was). Have a good trip back!
Posted: Jun 29, 2015, 7:11 AM
Chris Collura commented on George Kourounis's photo.
Jeez. Something from jurassic world but nope ... this is the real thing.
Posted: Jun 28, 2015, 7:20 PM
Chris Collura commented on Chris Downs's post.
Posted: Jun 28, 2015, 7:18 PM
Chris Collura commented on Luis Alberto LLense's post.
http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/
Posted: Jun 28, 2015, 5:47 PM
Chris Collura commented on Aaron Rigsby's post.
Posted: Jun 28, 2015, 5:41 PM
Chris Collura commented on Josh Morgerman's post.
Posted: Jun 28, 2015, 5:22 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Nice seeing people talking about the gay rights milestone and not about confederate flag debates anymore. Something positive and not about shootings and hate. Baby steps for our country - One step at a time.
Posted: Jun 28, 2015, 5:17 PM
Chris Collura commented on Meteorologist Tony Laubach's post.
It was a good choice. Too bad this is my weekend on the coast :/
Posted: Jun 28, 2015, 5:12 PM
Chris Collura commented on James Magyar's post.
Vagina Wars
Posted: Jun 28, 2015, 5:11 PM
Chris Collura commented on John Colbert's post.
Awesome! About time!
Posted: Jun 28, 2015, 12:26 PM
Chris Collura commented on Jerry Prsha's post.
Posted: Jun 28, 2015, 10:54 AM
Chris Collura commented on Genous Novin's photo.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunicate
Posted: Jun 28, 2015, 10:49 AM
Chris Collura commented on Tim Marshall's photo.
One of my favorite groups from the 80s. Sucks he passes at young age ... LeaveIt...
Posted: Jun 28, 2015, 10:13 AM
Chris Collura commented on his own photo.
Colors were a bit off ... It's fixed!
Posted: Jun 28, 2015, 7:53 AM
Chris Collura replied to Jodi Mair's comment.
You are talking about that DISASTER that ILDOT decided to do in a 30 mile stretch west of I39 / Rochelle on I88? What a freaking mess!
The speed limit is 45 but big trucks on there go 35 at best. Go 5 more miles south on I39 to highway 20 west, to about Dixon or Rock Springs, and you'll catch up with I88 there PAST all that -- and there's NO toll going west from there!
Not gonna pay to use a high speed road that's not.
Posted: Jun 28, 2015, 7:38 AM
Chris Collura commented on Visit California's link.
I love my red wine...
Posted: Jun 27, 2015, 5:43 PM
Chris Collura replied to Wendy Hedgcoth's comment.
Yeah ... but the storm is HP and they're in the bears cage. Gotta get in there to get the shots. PLUS the tornado is moving AWAY from them. So they are OK. I was 1/4 mile behind these guys and never was in any danger. I was more worried about hail.
Posted: Jun 27, 2015, 5:40 PM
Chris Collura replied to Cindy Jones's comment.
Posted: Jun 27, 2015, 5:33 PM
Chris Collura commented on The Weather Channel's link.
Posted: Jun 27, 2015, 4:55 PM
Chris Collura commented on Lori Ferguson's post.
Duh really? Wasn't God trying to tell us this for thousands of years?
Posted: Jun 27, 2015, 3:19 PM
Chris Collura commented on Bobby Eddins's photo.
Nice arcus cloud around that too.
Posted: Jun 27, 2015, 3:15 PM
Chris Collura commented on Bill Hark's post.
Posted: Jun 27, 2015, 1:00 PM
Chris Collura commented on Charles Edwards's post.
Has George Kourounis seen that? I believe he was in Laos just before chase season :)
Posted: Jun 27, 2015, 11:09 AM
Chris Collura commented on George Kourounis's post.
I hope this is at least a step in the right direction ... something much better than hate crimes and shootings ... for a change.
Posted: Jun 27, 2015, 10:59 AM
Chris Collura commented on Skip Talbot's photo.
Definitely an act of God and certainly one of his finest works!
I've seen some good and exciting works by nature in my tour of duty as a storm chaser.
Posted: Jun 27, 2015, 10:18 AM
Chris Collura commented on Total Wireless's photo.
I used to have a 4 b/r 3 bath house. My electric bill averaged $250 a month. I replaced all the incandescent bulbs with CFL lights (this was 2003) and spent about $150 on all the bulbs. The electric bill was $125 the following month. I guess I was afraid of the dark. Cut the bill in half and paid for most of the bulbs in just over a month from the savings!
Posted: Jun 27, 2015, 10:14 AM
Chris Collura commented on Lindsey Fowler's post.
Lol ... I'm catholic and have lots of gay friends. Oh my God I'm condemned.
Oops, weekly church tomorrow at 10 am. Can't miss that :)
Jesus is still in my heart.
Posted: Jun 27, 2015, 10:05 AM
Chris Collura commented on Olivier Staiger's post.
Same thing waiting for cap to break (and it didn't break) in Phillipsburg, KS on June 4th.
Posted: Jun 27, 2015, 9:22 AM
Chris Collura commented on Stephen Barabas's photo.
Posted: Jun 27, 2015, 9:13 AM
Chris Collura updated his status.
All I got to say about what's been going on lately is that I always was one of those open minded guys...
The only thing I really hate is HATE itself. It's a horrible thing and hurts, rejects, loathes, starts wars, and kills.
If you're gay ... I don't care. You're still my friend. If you're not, same thing. As long as you are a good person - that's what I see.
I'm not gonna get into this "against God stuff". Many gay people were predisposed to it and that's the way they are. They can't help it. You cannot just "fix" it.
That's ALL I'm gonna say about that because I don't want to get into any heated discussions ... Like the ones about peanut butter jelly and rebel flags - no way.
Being very bad ... people who are terrorists, murderers, hate crimes - that's right ... If YOU beat up / kill people because they're black, Jewish, Asian, gay, etc ... Then YOU are the one against God (sorry guys).
Just live right and love people. Honor your friends and family. Embrace what you have. Enjoy your passions (storm chasing included)! Stop focusing on things to hate about people.
Posted: Jun 26, 2015, 9:30 PM
Chris Collura commented on Charles Edwards's post.
Wow ... must be China. Insane.
Posted: Jun 26, 2015, 8:32 PM
Chris Collura commented on John Thomas Moon III's photo.
That scene was nuts. Clouds all racing overhead in so many directions. One local from the gas station asks us "where is the tornado forming?" ... I reply with "Right HERE!" while seeing a velocity couplet right smack over us!
Luckily outflow undercut it and saved the town. Still might have been a brief touchdown.
Posted: Jun 26, 2015, 8:18 PM
Chris Collura commented on Scott Peake's post.
Posted: Jun 26, 2015, 7:54 PM
Chris Collura replied to his own comment.
Awesome ... Now you're talkin'
Posted: Jun 26, 2015, 7:42 PM
Chris Collura commented on Olivier Staiger's post.
Wind turbine main pole structures.
Posted: Jun 26, 2015, 2:42 PM
Chris Collura commented on Jack Corso's post.
How about watermelon and BBQ chicken? Now that's stereotypical ... so where did the racism with peanut butter and jelly come from?
Posted: Jun 25, 2015, 9:23 PM
Chris Collura commented on Nick Drieschman's photo.
Great season for many ... mine started and ended with bangs!
Posted: Jun 25, 2015, 9:21 PM
Chris Collura commented on Doug Kiesling's link.
Hey Doug Kiesling, war SUCKS... Period... Hate is also a 4 letter word :(
Posted: Jun 25, 2015, 7:09 PM
Chris Collura commented on Jack Corso's post.
https://youtu.be/PoL59DglK-I
Posted: Jun 25, 2015, 7:36 AM
Chris Collura commented on Dalton Do's post.
Posted: Jun 25, 2015, 7:33 AM
Chris Collura commented on Charles Hamilton's post.
"Thank you for choosing Alamo."
Posted: Jun 25, 2015, 7:32 AM
Chris Collura commented on a post.
Posted: Jun 25, 2015, 7:04 AM
Chris Collura commented on Meteorologist Tony Laubach's post.
We all slump, Tony ... It's like any other SPORT.
Posted: Jun 24, 2015, 9:02 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
I'm back to Chicago after a long drive back from SW of Des Moines, Iowa after nice HP structure. I got in here at 3:45 AM and sleept good but not enough!
Chase season 2015 for spring is pretty much over. It was great being lucky enough to be out chasing, catching storms and tornadoes...
...And not to mention seeing all you great folks out there in the field doing what we all do best!
Posted: Jun 24, 2015, 8:37 PM
Chris Collura commented on Caryn Hill's post.
Posted: Jun 24, 2015, 8:34 PM
Chris Collura commented on John Martel's post.
Iowa?
Posted: Jun 24, 2015, 8:26 PM
Chris Collura commented on Daniel Shaw's post.
I passed you today in Iowa! Safe travels :)
Posted: Jun 24, 2015, 5:52 PM
Beautiful storm SW of Des Moines, IA.
Posted: Jun 24, 2015, 2:10 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own photo.
Posted: Jun 24, 2015, 2:08 PM
Wake low?At least I'm getting blue sky now
Posted: Jun 24, 2015, 1:12 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Headed through Iowa City now. Pressing west away from the MCS
Posted: Jun 24, 2015, 9:35 AM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Boy it sure looks like I overlooked the MCS effects from this morning. I'm almost considering not heading out unless I can make it was out near Des Moines in time. Morning crap-vection again averts tornado formation in IA / IL as it seems. But who knows?
This happened Monday and we STILL had tornadoes.
Posted: Jun 24, 2015, 9:16 AM
Chris Collura commented on Mike Hollingshead's post.
Looks like eastern / SE Iowa later.
Posted: Jun 24, 2015, 9:12 AM
Chris Collura commented on Mike Hollingshead's post.
Why is the MCS not going away?
Posted: Jun 24, 2015, 9:10 AM
Chris Collura commented on Nick Nolte's photo.
Digging a hole 2 feet by 3 feet and 6 inches deep ... putting cones 30 miles with one lane leading up to where the hole being dug is = see "orange" (then "red") !
Posted: Jun 24, 2015, 7:12 AM
Chris Collura replied to his own comment.
Wow Verne Carlson ... Can you say CYCLIC?
Posted: Jun 24, 2015, 6:44 AM
Chris Collura commented on Brittanny BK DeSouza's post.
Isn't the southern (left) tornado in that picture the one Verne Carlson had a close encounter with?
Posted: Jun 24, 2015, 6:42 AM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
Yeah Katt Alvarez and maybe west of there between Des Moines. Moisture from the gulf and Caribbean. Dew points up in the low 70's. All we need are palm trees...
Posted: Jun 24, 2015, 6:34 AM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Headed out southwest towards SE Iowa after working here in W Chicago suburbs for few hours. Once again, there will be a threat of severe storms starting from near Des Moines and migrating into N IL this evening and tonight.
Morning MCS is not terribly intense and should be dissapating by 17z allowing for intense heating ... Heck I pulled a forecast sounding for 0z SE of Des Moines and saw 5,500 CAPE and a helicity of 452 ... yikes!
Posted: Jun 23, 2015, 10:12 PM
Chris Collura commented on Daniel Shaw's post.
Jeez ... reading this post made me crave and go out and got some. Thanks!
Posted: Jun 23, 2015, 10:01 PM
Chris Collura commented on Olivier Staiger's photo.
Quite a "needle type" tornado ... pretty wild. Was it like a drill bit if you were closer (or dremmell)?
Posted: Jun 23, 2015, 5:52 PM
Chris Collura commented on Dalton Do's post.
Posted: Jun 23, 2015, 5:37 PM
Chris Collura commented on Daniel Shaw's post.
I'm in chicago too ... maybe we'll cross paths tomorrow!
Posted: Jun 23, 2015, 5:35 PM
Chris Collura commented on a post.
Posted: Jun 23, 2015, 5:26 PM
Chris Collura commented on Dalton Do's post.
Posted: Jun 23, 2015, 4:05 PM
Chris Collura commented on John Martel's post.
He looks like a redneck.
Posted: Jun 23, 2015, 4:01 PM
Chris Collura commented on Stephen Skelly's post.
No you're lucky ... most don't show up at all (Esp if you take time off work). The cay-bel-guy.
Posted: Jun 23, 2015, 2:12 PM
Chris Collura commented on Meteorologist Tony Laubach's photo.
Will I see you out there hopefully for that hi-5?
I'm thinking about leaving here around lunch and blasting out that way...
Posted: Jun 23, 2015, 12:31 PM
Chris Collura commented on Nick Nolte's post.
Illinois will be wiped off the map while chasers in Iowa will get a sunburn. Just hadda say that...
Posted: Jun 23, 2015, 12:30 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
I love the incredible aurora pictures everyone is posting who went out ... including the surprise satellite launch!
Unfortunately the light pollution and high cloud deck was over N Illinois at the height of the auroras last night. Beautiful display from the Dakotas!
Posted: Jun 23, 2015, 12:27 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
Tofu one day and tornado the next ... No pain. No gain.
Posted: Jun 23, 2015, 9:30 AM
Chris Collura commented on Nick Nolte's post.
No more AM MCS's please :)
Posted: Jun 23, 2015, 8:42 AM
Chris Collura commented on Joseph Barton Comstock's post.
Posted: Jun 23, 2015, 8:38 AM
Chris Collura replied to his own comment.
Thanks Blake Naftel ... Excellent work in your behalf as well.
Posted: Jun 23, 2015, 8:35 AM
Chris Collura commented on Blake Naftel's post.
Posted: Jun 23, 2015, 7:14 AM
Chris Collura commented on Live 5 News's link.
Hey Jason Foster ... I actually got a chuckle driving out of Florida and through Georgia seeing those flags flying.
I thought of it as strange because it seems like those folks want to stay separated from the rest of the nation and never seemed to let go after the civil war in a sense.
We are a SINGLE nation since the late 19th century. One flag is enough...
Posted: Jun 23, 2015, 7:11 AM
Chris Collura commented on Nick Nolte's post.
I was tempted ... oh so tempted to blast west to that storm SE of Des Moines. I was farther east so I "ran into" the Muscatine (to produce the Illinois City tornado) storm as luck had it.
Yes Wednesday is looking very good for Iowa. We're just enjoying life and getting out to chase.
Posted: Jun 23, 2015, 7:08 AM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Wow ... Seeing some strong wording on tomorrow's (Wednesday) enhanced setup centered over Des Moines, Iowa with strong tornadoes possible.
Threat area extends from NE / IA border eastward to N IL. Watch ... Nothing happens in Iowa and once the system "reaches Illinois" - watch out :/
Posted: Jun 23, 2015, 6:14 AM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
Thanks a bunch Tony Laubach ... Amazing storm and also given that anyone more than a mile away from that in any direction would not have seen it. I was in the "bears cage" there big time and this was a rain wrapped HP storm! The closest I got was about 200 yards from it ... Then back away for safety given the storm mode. Thanks again for the compliments and also a high five back to you as you've been scoring too! Storm chasing the way it should be!
Posted: Jun 23, 2015, 5:52 AM
Chris Collura commented on his own album.
Yeah Doug Kiesling ... Amazing how this year (2015) started and ended with big bangs!
Posted: Jun 23, 2015, 12:27 AM
Chris Collura commented on Stephen Jones's photo.
Awesome stuff today. We're you on the tornado near Illinois City?
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 11:50 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Incredible day today for many storm chasers and sky watchers. Tornadoes during the late afternoon and incredible auroras to the north in the clear skies being reported.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 11:10 PM
Chris Collura added a new photo.
My vehicle and second tornado developing near Woodhull, IL on June 22, 2015
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 11:10 PM
Chris Collura added a new photo.
Second tornado near Woodhull, IL on June 15, 2015.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 11:10 PM
Chris Collura added a new photo.
Close up of wedge tornado near Illinois City, IL on June 22, 2015.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 11:10 PM
Chris Collura added a new photo.
Power flash as tornado crosses road east of Illinois City, IL on June 22, 2015. Tornado rain wrapped at this point.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 11:10 PM
Chris Collura added a new photo.
Weakening cyclic supercell near Altona, IL on June 22, 2015.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 11:10 PM
Chris Collura added a new photo.
Lightning frame capture near Altona, IL on June 22, 2015.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 11:10 PM
Chris Collura added a new photo.
Lightning near Altona, IL on June 22, 2015.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 11:10 PM
Chris Collura added a new photo.
First touchdown of tornado east of Illinois City, IL on June 22, 2015.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 11:10 PM
Chris Collura added a new photo.
Multi-vortex nature of tornado east of Illinois City, IL on June 22, 2015.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 11:10 PM
Chris Collura added a new photo.
Developing mesocyclone (RFD to the left) near Illinois City, IL on June 22, 2015.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 11:10 PM
Chris Collura added a new photo.
Wall cloud near ground near Illinois City, IL on June 22, 2015. First tornado about to form after this.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 11:10 PM
Chris Collura added a new photo.
Wall cloud near Woodhull, IL on June 22, 2015. Second tornado formed from this cycle.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 11:10 PM
Chris Collura added a new photo.
Approaching tornadic supercell storm near Illinois City, IL on June 22, 2015.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 11:10 PM
Chris Collura added a new photo.
Tornado widening to wedge phase east of Illinois City, IL on June 22, 2015.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 8:10 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
Thanks guys ... footage to come too!
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 8:10 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
Hey Dave Lewison ... I needed that :)
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 8:09 PM
Chris Collura commented on Jason Hammer's post.
Incredible! What a day!
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 7:30 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
God listened I guess!
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 7:05 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Headed back to Chicago under crazy lightning show after awesome tornado intercept! I'll SAY it now. ..
... What a day ;)
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 7:03 PM
Chris Collura commented on Stephen Jones's photo.
Awesome! Was that Illinois City?
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 6:33 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Headed east on 34 out of Altona. Supercell still cycling to my north!
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 6:31 PM
Chris Collura commented on Stephen Jones's photo.
What a storm!
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 5:29 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own photo.
Fucking A ... in a good sense!
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 5:19 PM
Yah baby near Illinois city!
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 3:47 PM
Chris Collura commented on Brett Wright's photo.
Tornado was reported by law enforcement and radar confirmed. Most chasers 110 miles to its east. Trolling.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 3:19 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Trolling 2015 continues. Way west near Des Moines a tornado is confirmed and 99% of chasers are in W IL / E IA. WTF is going on with this year?
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 2:11 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Near Davenport, IA along outflow boudary. Still light rain to its north. Hoping something happens here.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 2:07 PM
Chris Collura commented on Doug Kiesling's post.
So now what does trolling mean again?
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 12:57 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Headed towards Davenport, IA border with IL to salvage what's best of the good airmass. Traffic is absolutely horrible going west on 88. Trying alternate route.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 12:54 PM
Chris Collura commented on Joseph Barton Comstock's photo.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 11:25 AM
Chris Collura commented on Joseph Barton Comstock's photo.
Probably digging a hole and have 30 miles of cones.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 11:23 AM
Chris Collura commented on Doug Kiesling's link.
Hey Doug Kiesling ... a messy line segment. Brought this ghetto crap up here from Florida back in mid May.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 11:03 AM
Chris Collura commented on Doug Kiesling's link.
And unfortunately you probably saw more than anyone will see today.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 10:40 AM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Come on ... C'mon.
Get this messy MCS out of the way.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 10:30 AM
Chris Collura commented on Dave Lewison's post.
Prayers answered. Amen. Lives and property will live again to see another day. You're very welcome :)
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 10:06 AM
Chris Collura commented on Olivier Staiger's post.
I got to move to SD. Screw all this morning garbage-vection here in IL.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 10:04 AM
Chris Collura commented on Reed Timmer Extreme Meteorologist's video.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 9:13 AM
Chris Collura commented on Skip Talbot's photo.
Construction ... I'll avoid Madison then. If it's not broken stop fixing it and delaying people who have to get to work, important appointments, and to supercells.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 8:47 AM
Chris Collura commented on Skip Talbot's photo.
This might stabilize some things ... good for most people. Sucks for storm chasers.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 8:20 AM
Chris Collura commented on Stephen Jones's post.
Doesn't bring anyone back nor does this undo what's been done. Not to be harsh but it appears well be seeing more and more of this BS as long as we have armed mentally ill people.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 8:17 AM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Looks like there's no sense leaving work after lunch to chase here (N IL), or is there?
The severity of today's afternoon storms depends on a persistent MCS weakening or moving out of the area this morning. And what's happening?
Yup ... a messy persistent MCS is taking its sweet ass time and intensifying.
Not sure to what to make of today's setup, but I'm on it, so yeah ... it should go to shit like all the others "I was on".
Messy... like S Florida.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 7:30 AM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
Yeah its still up and useful for models. I think the RAP is down on it, ofcourse we can use the COD numerical models as a better one stop place too!
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 7:29 AM
Chris Collura replied to Rob Dale's comment.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 7:16 AM
Chris Collura replied to Rob Dale's comment.
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 6:52 AM
Chris Collura commented on Joseph Barton Comstock's post.
Either they made the rings out of cobalt-60 or this is a joke / new idea for a body-horror movie :/
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 6:22 AM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Silly question: Anyone notice the RAP / UCAR weather site and their RUC models still "stuck" on last Friday's 14z 19 Jun run?
Strange...
Posted: Jun 22, 2015, 6:02 AM
Chris Collura commented on Dave Lewison's photo.
That MCS is the savior ... to prevent big tornadoes and promote a messy linear MCS in IL / WI ... and again piss off Mr Chris Collura.
Posted: Jun 21, 2015, 10:24 PM
Chris Collura commented on Marko Korošec's photo.
Nice ... have not said "what a day" in a while (early april).
Posted: Jun 21, 2015, 10:21 PM
Chris Collura commented on Joseph Barton Comstock's post.
Posted: Jun 21, 2015, 10:19 PM
Chris Collura commented on Caryn Hill's post.
Posted: Jun 21, 2015, 9:15 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Jeez ... must have slept off the afternoon and evening after eating bad food and getting sick. Feel quite better now.
I am headed locally for probably one last good (good? Hah, yeah right) chase tomorrow (Monday) in N IL or S Wi after working in the morning.
I see a few folks caught a tornado in SD today. But I don't feel so bad because if I was out there it would have been for last Wednesday to Saturday anyway ... and I would have once again missed it with bad timing.
It's 2015 and there's trolls everywhere.
Posted: Jun 21, 2015, 9:10 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
Hey Neva Andersen .. I actually like the fried tofu you get at the Asian markets here. Just eat it fresh. Tofu bacon sounds nasty.
Posted: Jun 21, 2015, 9:08 PM
Chris Collura commented on Dave Lewison's post.
Exacly, Dave Lewison ... but I had also cleared last Thursday and Friday to chase in SD leaving Wednesday and coming back Saturday. I cancelled and worked making money those days. Cap bust was Thursday there and friday was after dark rain wrapped stuff there. Imagine that and THEN seeing this post today? And probably more ugly rants from me on here. At least in Iowa I saw something.
Posted: Jun 21, 2015, 9:00 PM
Chris Collura commented on Dave Lewison's post.
I see this today after spending 809.3 miles chasing in Iowa yesterday under an instant transition to MCS and skipping the supercell stages? 2015 chase season is almost over .. Thsnks god. Wisconsin junknadofest tomorrow ... woo hoo.
Posted: Jun 21, 2015, 12:17 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Made dumb mistake of keeping fried tofu amongst some other veggies in the fridge for about a week. Had some this morning and it tasted weird so I tossed it and left for church.
I come back and it smells like someone took a dump in the trashcan and it stinks up the room. Meanwhile I get neusea and stomach pain. Now spending a beautiful Sunday sick in bed for now...
...When in DOUBT - THROW IT OUT !!!
Posted: Jun 21, 2015, 11:25 AM
Chris Collura commented on Josh Morgerman's post.
Posted: Jun 21, 2015, 11:20 AM
Chris Collura commented on Marko Korošec's photo.
Des moines...
Posted: Jun 21, 2015, 11:11 AM
Chris Collura commented on John Thomas Moon III's post.
Hey Randy Outlaw Hicks ... I was right behind you guys in Iowa yesterday. Small world. Hope we get good luck with this one.
Posted: Jun 21, 2015, 11:10 AM
Chris Collura commented on John Thomas Moon III's post.
The threat area is shifting south ... which is good. Heck I can actually work tomorrow and leave early afternoon!
Posted: Jun 21, 2015, 10:05 AM
Chris Collura commented on John Thomas Moon III's post.
It's shit in central Wisconsin. But with the way I messed up the second part of my chase season I'm still chasing there. What else could go wrong, right?
Posted: Jun 21, 2015, 7:39 AM
Chris Collura added a new photo.
Mesocyclone just prior to being undercut by outflow near Oskaloosa, Iowa on June 20, 2015.
Posted: Jun 21, 2015, 7:39 AM
Chris Collura added a new photo.
Gust front / shelf cloud associated with elevated severe storms to the north of Tipton, Iowa on June 20, 2015.
Posted: Jun 21, 2015, 7:39 AM
Chris Collura added a new photo.
Another view of gust front / shelf cloud associated with elevated severe storms to the north of Tipton, Iowa on June 20, 2015.
Posted: Jun 21, 2015, 7:39 AM
Chris Collura added a new photo.
Poweful outflow and gust front racing eastward towards Fairfield, Iowa on June 20, 2015.
Posted: Jun 21, 2015, 7:39 AM
Chris Collura added a new photo.
Wall cloud on embedded supercell storm before undercut by outflow near Oskaloosa, Iowa on June 20, 2015.
Posted: Jun 21, 2015, 7:32 AM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
With the END of my season ... and Wisconsin 2 hours away (the target areas) ... I'll give it a try.
Posted: Jun 20, 2015, 11:16 PM
Chris Collura commented on Daniel Shaw's post.
You can almost read by that starlight!
Posted: Jun 20, 2015, 11:15 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Back in Chicago after an 809.3 mile round trip to near Des Moines, Iowa to chase storms during the day Saturday.
Not sure what I'll do Sunday but Monday looks like a closer chase after work in Wisconsin. I heard Doug Kiesling once say "friends don't let friends chase in Wisconsin"!
Posted: Jun 20, 2015, 10:45 PM
Chris Collura commented on Skip Talbot's photo.
Did that supercell in the background wind up tornadoing? That sucks...
Posted: Jun 20, 2015, 10:43 PM
Chris Collura commented on Scott Peake's post.
Posted: Jun 20, 2015, 10:41 PM
Chris Collura commented on Doug Kiesling's photo.
I went. Wasn't all that bad guys.
Posted: Jun 20, 2015, 4:45 PM
Chris Collura commented on Dave Lewison's post.
Derecho.
Posted: Jun 20, 2015, 4:45 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Derecho may be under way in Iowa.
Posted: Jun 20, 2015, 2:29 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Cells firing east of Des Moines Iowa. I'm on it.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 10:10 PM
Chris Collura commented on Marko Korošec's photo.
Now that's a cat picture in a far more interesting context!
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 9:30 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own photo.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 9:24 PM
Chris Collura commented on eBay's link.
George Kourounis ... here's one for you!
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 9:22 PM
Chris Collura commented on Marko Korošec's photo.
That's insane ... and a much safer position relative to the storm too.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 9:11 PM
Chris Collura commented on Verne Carlson's post.
Rain wrapped (or softball sized hail wrapped), 125 knot RFD, chasers on road SW of storm, haboob dust, hilly terrain, poor road network ... and (uh-um - clears throat) it's night ... look for lightning illuminated structure shots. No one wants to be IN THAT at night.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 9:08 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own photo.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 9:08 PM
Looks like RFD is so massive it's putting out a huge haboob as well (dust kicked up southwest of violent supercell).
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 7:55 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own photo.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 7:46 PM
No chasers in front of it. Maybe that's a good thing. Velocity of 125 knots in the RFD.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 6:30 PM
Where's my rope (to tie to this and my trailer hitch) when I need it?
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 6:25 PM
Chris Collura commented on a post.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 4:04 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Seeing more and more cat pictures on here. Winter is back (at least storm wise).
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 4:03 PM
Chris Collura replied to his own comment.
Good choice Jack Corso. Not worth saving and the pain.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 4:01 PM
Chris Collura commented on Jack Corso's post.
1.5 grand for root canal in 2012 that failed. Another 4.5 grand to yank it all out and do an implant. Total 6 grand ... Priceless.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 3:14 PM
Into the radar hole it goes...
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 3:13 PM
Chris Collura commented on Mike Khaler's post.
Lol ... Puts a pink filter on it and says it's Catatumba lightning. That's classy.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 2:58 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Now today is looking a world of difference better way way out there in Montana. Tornado about to form in massive wall cloud on Ben Mc Millan's stream.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 2:32 PM
Chris Collura commented on John Martel's post.
That would stink in the hail core.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 12:57 PM
Chris Collura commented on Martin O'Malley's link.
You get to a point where sending cards and flowers don't work anymore either :(
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 12:55 PM
Chris Collura commented on Mike Khaler's post.
Catatumba lightning I suppose. The pink color is from methane and hydrocarbons naturally in the air in that region.
The trip will be ruined by political unrest and violence ... especially if you are passing through Caracas.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 12:46 PM
Chris Collura commented on Verne Carlson's post.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 12:45 PM
Chris Collura commented on Verne Carlson's post.
Mine was Rochelle, IL but had I not effed it up May 9 would have been up there too.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 12:43 PM
Chris Collura commented on Billy Wade's post.
Or even better, Billy Wade ... shave off ONE SIDE first and post a picture. That would be cool!
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 12:32 PM
Chris Collura commented on Ana Gomez Jalandoni's post.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 12:30 PM
Chris Collura commented on Stephen Skelly's post.
This shit is getting so old and in the vicious cycle...
1). Some deranged young nut job kills many people in a school or church.
2). The perp kills himself (saves prison / tax payers the hassles) or is caught (expensive).
3). Vigils are held. Cards are send out. Mourning and crying.
4). President / mayor makes a "comforting" speech (usually of false hope).
5). More greeting feel sorry cards sent out as victims families feel true essences of their losses (ie. House foreclosed because spouse killed was also supporting income, orphaned child, severe depression causes member to become institutionized, etc).
6). If we are lucky, a few months go by...
7). ... Repeat steps 1 to 6 above all over again.
Round n round it goes.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 12:23 PM
Chris Collura commented on Evan Bookbinder's photo.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 12:09 PM
Chris Collura commented on Lori Ferguson's post.
Hey Scott McPartland ... let me see. Most likely in mid to late July. .. unless there's a hurricane chasing opp.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 12:07 PM
Chris Collura commented on Billy Wade's post.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 12:00 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Late season nasty cold "bug" and flu still going around. Many Co workers and friends up here (Chicago) and in FL have it - worse than during the winter.
This was a year flu vaccines were only 2% effective (instead of the normal 60%). I learned this wasn't a media hoax after getting it TWICE this year, the second time being a dosey with food allergy on top of it and lasting 3 weeks and even making my storm chasing trip in May miserable.
If you are sick, STAY HOME. If you cannot take off work, drink plenty of fluids and keep the fever down with Motrin or Tylenol -- AND cover your mouth (mask) and spray the area around sick people with Lysol.
Quite frankly ... Many people don't have sick time off / can't AFFORD to get sick -- And simply don't want your shit.
Contrary to public belief ... the most severe colds and flu can happen OUTSIDE of the winter months. As a matter of fact, these viruses proliferate in warm climates and / or indoors. The end of the winter certainly means nothing to not catching a cold!
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 11:08 AM
Chris Collura commented on Molly O'Neill's link.
I used to handle these all the time as a teenager. I always was aware of the white exudate (venom) with this and other toads. I washed my hands and avoided touching my face (Esp eyes)! The biggest threat to an adult is allergy reactions. Small kids and pets getting the venom (poison) in their mouths / eyes are at highest risk.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 11:02 AM
Chris Collura commented on Lori Ferguson's post.
Hey Scott McPartland ... when are you gonna be down there? Just you guys or any get together. I might be visiting there in july.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 10:01 AM
Chris Collura commented on Thad Bowling's photo.
Copied from one of my posts probably. Wait until 45. Oh my...
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 10:00 AM
Chris Collura commented on Stephen Jones's post.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 9:58 AM
Chris Collura commented on Willoughby Owen's post.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 9:57 AM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Mid to late June 2015 ... the Era of the MCS's.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 9:47 AM
Chris Collura replied to his own comment.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 9:13 AM
Chris Collura updated his status.
I decided to NOT head 1000 miles to Montana yesterday nor today. I'm opting to catch stuff near IL tomorrow afternoon at 1/10 the driving distance and at least enjoy time here in town (Chicago) tonight!
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 9:10 AM
Chris Collura commented on Dalton Do's post.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 8:41 AM
Chris Collura commented on Lori Ferguson's post.
Yeah Lori Ferguson ... I've been there since 1985 and only saw a few. You MUST be on the beach at just the right time to see them.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 8:32 AM
Chris Collura commented on Lori Ferguson's post.
Yup ... a month after moving out of there. Screw you murphey.
Awesome shots though.
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 8:28 AM
Chris Collura commented on Daniel Shaw's post.
It's such a beautiful country out there, isn't it?
Posted: Jun 19, 2015, 8:26 AM
This was May 11, 2010 in Oklahoma. Picture brought tears to my eyes because I was multi tasking (as many chasers do) with a camera taking this picture and phone on speaker in the other hand ... with my wonderful mom calling to see how I was doing right at that moment.I recall her saying "after you get back from chasing this week, you're coming over Saturday, right? I'll make you you're 'favorite' ... tuna-tenner sandwiches!" ... When I was a kid I always called tuna salad that. Don't recall why.Mom's are such wonderful people and have such great memories. Almost every time I see an LP Supercell now I think of that moment ... my "favorite" ... sigh.
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 6:49 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
And eastern Montana / N WY is capped hard today through it all.
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 6:46 PM
Awesome ....west of Billings, MT now. Start of the show!Just kidding ... A little help to a thermal ridge over central CONUS from TS Bill's upper anticyclone would do that ... ... Don't you hate when that hapoens?
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 5:59 PM
Chris Collura commented on Tim Marshall's photo.
Free sun tanning sessions now at Tim's cap bust cafe ... Complete with an awesome view of devils tower as you tan... hurry up ... offer ands after 3z.
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 5:40 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own photo.
That was good while it lasted, Dave Lewison. And I wasn't there to bust again either lol
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 5:38 PM
Chris Collura commented on Josh Morgerman's post.
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 4:39 PM
Chris Collura commented on Tim Marshall's photo.
He made it out of clay. Got mad over a cap and no storms ... and in a rage ripped the top of it off and -- Voila! -- I remember now. Duh. Devils tower!
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 4:37 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own photo.
Yeah I hear you Marcus Diaz. I think the cap will erode at around 3z (sunset) but then strengthen again by 6z. But don't despair as you'll be in range for the western (good) side of tomorrow's target.
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 4:25 PM
Little baby LP supercell W of Chugwater, WY. How cute. @[100005493158221:2048:William Reid] is one of the only chasers on it. Hopefully cap will break in my virtual target farther north (W SD and NE WY), had I gone (decided not to go yesterday).
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 4:03 PM
Chris Collura commented on Tim Marshall's photo.
Slouch hat.
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 2:54 PM
Chris Collura commented on Tim Marshall's photo.
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 2:49 PM
Chris Collura commented on Tim Marshall's photo.
Hey Sam Barricklow ... I heard it's capped for now. 3z fires some action according to HRRR.
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 2:38 PM
Chris Collura commented on Tim Marshall's photo.
Nice hat Tim Marshall __/\__
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 2:23 PM
Chris Collura commented on a post.
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 1:53 PM
Chris Collura commented on Reed Timmer Extreme Meteorologist's post.
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 1:40 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
I want meterological violence brought back ... I did not ask for social / hate violence.
With that said ... gone are the days where you can predict an event or setup days in advance. Now it's not even predictable a mere 6 hours in advance :(
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 1:35 PM
Chris Collura commented on Josh Morgerman's post.
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 1:33 PM
Chris Collura replied to his own comment.
Like they did to Jeffrey Dahmer during his first week in ... whack his head against a concrete wall and expedite his trip to hell ... or his RETURN there.
Whoever did that saved a couple of cents on all our tax returns to boot.
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 1:29 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
Thanks Mark G. Farmer .. yeah, not ranting aimlessly here.
People with mental problems are often ignored and rejected and this exacerbates it.
What's really scary (similar to Cho in the VA Tech shooting in 2007 and Sandy Hook few years back) is that these individuals simply were not taken seriously.
Cho was looked as "a quiet and shy Asian guy", and trust me ... many of that race and demonym are - but there was subtle signs of something being very ... VERY wrong.
One of the victims was a person who got angry at him months earlier for having "an attitude problem".
At that point, Cho was well beyond help, unfortunately.
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 1:07 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Montana is the new Kansas.
Enjoy chase season 2015...
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 1:05 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 12:52 PM
Chris Collura commented on Josh Morgerman's post.
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 12:50 PM
Chris Collura commented on Jerry Prsha's post.
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 10:57 AM
Chris Collura commented on ChaserTV's photo.
Hey Jessica Boyer ... in a sense. It caused the ridge to strengthen aloft.
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 10:54 AM
Chris Collura updated his status.
It's a bright and beautiful tomorrow?
Not where 99% of people destroying our country / planet are headed...
Maybe more people should go see "TomorrowLand" for a real tease.
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 10:51 AM
Chris Collura commented on Matt Sellers's post.
Oh and our fucking tax is now gonna pay for his room and food?
I hope someone drowns him in the prison toilet.
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 10:50 AM
Chris Collura commented on Allen Wilson's post.
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 10:50 AM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Now a shooting in church?
You can see why I don't watch the news (unless I wanna know about a tornado or hurricane).
All you dumb crazy Americans (I don't mean storm chasers or party animals ... those are good crazy) -- I mean those who can't control your own gun violence (and bring hate and racism as an excuse to do so) -- can take your guns, stick them up you're ass, and FIRE them...
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 8:42 AM
Chris Collura commented on Jerry Prsha's post.
Posted: Jun 18, 2015, 8:37 AM
Chris Collura updated his status.
I WAS gonna be out in western South Dakota by this afternoon (June 18) but still opted to work another day and decide if tomorrow (June 19) would be even worth chasing. I might just stay put for more local stuff near me Saturday (June 20).
Note: A Pilger redemption does not look likely.
Yes today now is looking better, but you're talking between Montana and W SD, way out there (good luck to those already out and in place for this setup).
Friday I'm hearing talk about a surging front and rapid evolution to a squall line ... the "enhanced" risk SPC has out is clearly hinting at a wind risk, with tornadoes only during the initial stages of the storms, near the MT border.
Saturday looks to suddenly JUMP 700 miles east with the setup in IA / IL. Capping is also dominant in all these setups. Very tricky calls here.
2015 was a year such decisions can only be made HOURS before a storm event, not DAYS like previous setups.
Omaha, NE and Kansas are kinda lame this late season. You think?
Posted: Jun 17, 2015, 9:50 AM
Chris Collura replied to his own comment.
Yeah ... Friday is too seductive to ignore!
Posted: Jun 17, 2015, 9:20 AM
Chris Collura commented on Jason Foster's post.
Awesome shot ... and you said sick? That cold and flu crap still going around in that state?
Posted: Jun 17, 2015, 8:27 AM
Chris Collura commented on Nick Nolte's post.
Hey Nick Nolte ... that blip way the F--- up there in central Montana. I was thinking more SW SD or around there. I can smell the desperado.
The 12z NAM just REMOVED the SigTor / EHI "pipe dream" the 6z painted in ND on Friday too ... Ugh.
I'll just wait until tomorrow and not even bother with it and decide then for Friday. Good luck to those who DO head out.
Posted: Jun 17, 2015, 7:25 AM
Chris Collura commented on Nick Nolte's post.
The NAM is showing otherwise as is the GFS with insane EHI and such from Central ND eastward to the SE part of the state Friday. That's tempting.
Posted: Jun 17, 2015, 6:51 AM
Chris Collura commented on Nick Nolte's post.
Doing the same thing. Most likely won't go. I waited weeks on this upper system since it was off Japan :/
I'm not liking the ridge shape on Friday with all the upper support stretched north of it, then NW flow and a surging cold front into Iowa on Saturday.
And who mentioned the outflow trumping kansas setup with the cap a couple weeks back? Yeah ... I just got done peeling last week from that sunburn :(
Posted: Jun 16, 2015, 7:09 PM
Chris Collura commented on iCyclone's photo.
Posted: Jun 16, 2015, 7:01 PM
Chris Collura commented on George Kourounis's photo.
LOL .. BIG name / tiny town --Nothing to see here. Move along...
Posted: Jun 16, 2015, 6:50 PM
Chris Collura commented on KFVS-TV's photo.
Good idea.
Posted: Jun 16, 2015, 6:44 PM
Chris Collura commented on Billy Wade's post.
Thanks for helping her. You did the right thing to do.
Posted: Jun 16, 2015, 6:41 PM
Chris Collura commented on iCyclone's photo.
Wow ... looks just like a thunderstorm! I wonder if there's even a calm area at all in the center (remember Marco a few years back / 2008 at 65 mph in Bay of Campeche with TS winds only 10 miles wide)?
Posted: Jun 16, 2015, 5:49 PM
Chris Collura commented on John Martel's post.
Poor liver ... Or it's just juice so he'll get his vitamin C and fool millions of YouTube watchers...
Posted: Jun 16, 2015, 3:20 PM
Chris Collura commented on Caryn Hill's photo.
Posted: Jun 16, 2015, 2:47 PM
Chris Collura commented on Dave Lewison's post.
Yeah Adam Lucio ... while also sharing a single common RFD.
Posted: Jun 16, 2015, 2:45 PM
Chris Collura commented on Tony Mesias's photo.
Nice storm split taking place with right storm ramping up!
Posted: Jun 16, 2015, 2:36 PM
Chris Collura commented on Tony Mesias's photo.
Posted: Jun 16, 2015, 2:21 PM
Chris Collura commented on South Florida Sun Sentinel's link.
Florida with their heads up their asses again. Just legalize the stuff and tax it instead of screwing people with rent and property tax!
Posted: Jun 16, 2015, 2:21 PM
Chris Collura commented on Tony Mesias's photo.
RFD cut forming. Nice.
Posted: Jun 16, 2015, 1:54 PM
Chris Collura commented on Stephen Sponsler's post.
Tons of sargassum?
Posted: Jun 16, 2015, 11:30 AM
Chris Collura commented on Dave Lewison's post.
And yes all ... The anniversary stuff is really irritating on the context of: "on this day the worst hurricane hit..." -- In the midst of the 9th season with no major hurricanes hitting the USA in a decade long stretch while NHC has "tropical cyclone formation not expected in the next 48 hours..." (-- AND it's mid September).
Posted: Jun 16, 2015, 11:01 AM
Chris Collura commented on Dave Lewison's post.
Hey Dave Lewison ... that event on June 4 was on the edge of a measly 2% SPC TOR outlook. Only people in Colorado to begin with would have seen it / stayed over there. I targeted Kansas along with Charles Edwards and many many others. Many got a consolidation of some wild LP storms, but I HAD TO go east to be at important meeting the next day so I could not stay for that. SDS on top of that would have probably killed me outright.
Posted: Jun 16, 2015, 9:31 AM
Chris Collura commented on Dave Lewison's post.
Hey Dave Lewison ... this year had the next best thing to the Pilger, Twins on June 4 in Colorado (Simla where one was anticyclonic on other side of RFD with another simultaneously). I was suckered with 99% of the others to N/C Kansas that day and had to go east for work the next day so I saw none of that. There was just sheer regret that day for not scheduling my 3 days off correctly. Plus April this year worked well for me.
Posted: Jun 16, 2015, 9:09 AM
Chris Collura commented on Bobby Eddins's video.
It slowed down and is jogging more WNW.
Posted: Jun 16, 2015, 9:07 AM
Chris Collura commented on Dave Lewison's post.
Exactly ... That KILLED years of SDS. I may have had a couple of hiccups later this season but there's NO SDS ... just mad about a mistake or wrong decision causing me to miss something. I know of a lot of people who missed those storms. That must have really sucked donkey butt.
Posted: Jun 16, 2015, 8:21 AM
Hard to imagine it's been a year already ... June 16, 2014 (Pilger, Nebraska). No trolling here...
Posted: Jun 16, 2015, 8:19 AM
Chris Collura commented on Michael Laca's post.
Posted: Jun 16, 2015, 8:18 AM
Interesting view of the circulation center of tropical storm Bill off the central Texas Gulf Coast. No one on spotter network is near the center.I am not chasing this. It's not a hurticsne, just 50 to 60 MPH gusts mainly in the intense bands east (right side) of the center. Dry air intrusion is occurring on the west (left) side.
Posted: Jun 16, 2015, 8:13 AM
Chris Collura commented on Dave Lewison's post.
As well as HYPE over a minimal to moderate tropical storm that's barely subtropical that puts HYPES 10 to 15 years ago over a category 3 hurricane to shame.
Posted: Jun 16, 2015, 6:32 AM
Chris Collura commented on Bobby Eddins's post.
Keep that moisture plume away from my tornado setup this weekend farther north. Don't need the EML messed up and storms firing at 10 am.
Posted: Jun 16, 2015, 6:30 AM
Chris Collura commented on Marko Korošec's post.
Trollin' trolling trollin' keep those doggies trolling...
Posted: Jun 16, 2015, 6:26 AM
Chris Collura commented on Dalton Do's video.
Posted: Jun 16, 2015, 6:24 AM
Chris Collura commented on John Martel's post.
Rush in 1987.
Posted: Jun 15, 2015, 8:58 PM
So Tampa Bay and all of Florida now can view the Lightning as a measly little bird fart storm.Chicago takes triumph on the ice in one hell of a victory. Great job Blackhawks!
Posted: Jun 15, 2015, 8:39 PM
Chris Collura commented on John Martel's post.
He should be dead.
Posted: Jun 15, 2015, 8:21 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Tornado reported on another storm south of Joliet, IL ... Seriously? Can't that happen when I've been going down there for storms the past 4 days?
Come on ... Is my "late 2015 jinx" ever gonna end?
Oh ... Must be the TROLLS again. Duh!
Posted: Jun 15, 2015, 5:04 PM
Chris Collura commented on Jeff Gammons's photo.
Posted: Jun 15, 2015, 9:33 AM
Chris Collura commented on his own album.
http://www.skydivecity.com/
Posted: Jun 15, 2015, 8:19 AM
Chris Collura commented on Tony Mesias's photo.
SW SD and E Wyoming is where the outbreak will be.
Posted: Jun 15, 2015, 6:28 AM
Chris Collura commented on a post.
Posted: Jun 15, 2015, 6:00 AM
Chris Collura commented on George Kourounis's photo.
Nice!
Posted: Jun 14, 2015, 8:37 PM
Chris Collura commented on Marko Korošec's post.
Awesome haboob!
Posted: Jun 14, 2015, 8:36 PM
Chris Collura commented on John Martel's post.
Point Reyes, California.
Posted: Jun 14, 2015, 8:35 PM
Chris Collura commented on Dalton Do's post.
Posted: Jun 14, 2015, 8:33 PM
Chris Collura commented on John Martel's post.
Posted: Jun 14, 2015, 10:44 AM
Chris Collura added a new photo.
Myself going head-down (203 MPH measured on Pro-Track) over Rochelle, IL at CSC on June 6, 2015. Image from video by Steve T.
Posted: Jun 14, 2015, 10:44 AM
Chris Collura added a new photo.
Myself in strong track over Rochelle, IL at CSC on June 6, 2015. Image from video by Steve T.
Posted: Jun 14, 2015, 10:14 AM
Chris Collura commented on Kirk Short's post.
The last person I brought storm chasing had an attention span of about an hour. You two are special!
Posted: Jun 13, 2015, 5:26 PM
Chris Collura commented on Jeff Gammons's photo.
Posted: Jun 13, 2015, 4:25 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
Ok, well I'm NOT on that then. I'm too old and ugly for that, Jason Foster :(
Posted: Jun 13, 2015, 4:21 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
Inner circle, Jason Foster? Not sure what that is?
Posted: Jun 13, 2015, 2:39 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Chicago has its share of jackasses too. Trust me.
Posted: Jun 13, 2015, 1:00 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
Or so I thought. .. nice hole opened up and we skydived through it!
Posted: Jun 13, 2015, 11:53 AM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Looking better out here in IL ... Storms later and clouds burn off creating a nice hole to skydive through! 2% tornado and slight risk ... Don't ignore that :)
Posted: Jun 13, 2015, 6:34 AM
Chris Collura updated his status.
"Weather" in general has NOT been on my side the past month. Aside the storm chasing fails ... What's up with the low clouds and fog every weekend here in IL? Christ I know this is an El Nino year, but this is not Florida. No skydiving ... again.
Posted: Jun 12, 2015, 2:59 PM
Chris Collura commented on Dave Lewison's photo.
Hey Dave Lewison ... kill it? That's my job :)
Posted: Jun 12, 2015, 1:50 PM
Couplets appearing on radar now near Muleshoe, Texas and Dimmitt in a broken line of supercells. The cell near Muleshoe looks best for now!
Posted: Jun 12, 2015, 1:08 PM
Chris Collura commented on Chris Downs's post.
Posted: Jun 12, 2015, 1:06 PM
Chris Collura commented on Meteorologist Tony Laubach's photo.
I almost took the day off and went to Des Moines (6/11). A little voice told me to just work, get out an hour early, and try my luck at the 5% tor prob in IL. Still busted (to no surprise) but with less than 1/10 the distance traveled.
Posted: Jun 12, 2015, 1:03 PM
Chris Collura commented on Willoughby Owen's post.
Posted: Jun 12, 2015, 11:03 AM
Chris Collura commented on Verne Carlson's post.
Must be all the beer he had with his steaks. That's plural: steakS.
Posted: Jun 12, 2015, 8:58 AM
Chris Collura commented on Verne Carlson's post.
Huh? Have you been drinking?
Yours truly is the one you should be expecting to see Jurassic World and hopefully have a few drinks while he's at it.
I'm talking about ME.
Posted: Jun 12, 2015, 6:45 AM
So here's where I was chasing late in the day on June 11 (after softball sized hail a day earlier 25 miles from my place when I was NOT chasing).My bad chasing luck cleared a big hole all around me - Amazing ey? I guess I saved a lot of lives and property yesyerday (think positive)!Whoever didn't get Rochelle in IL on April 9 pretty much got ALL the others.Who cleared that other "hole" in Kansas? Must be another storm chaser there related to the Collura family, or someone who shook my hand last week, or something. Lol.
Posted: Jun 12, 2015, 6:31 AM
Chris Collura commented on Daniel Shaw's post.
I got to move out to Colorado so this don't keep happening out there and storms will start hitting Chicago after that :(
Posted: Jun 11, 2015, 11:13 PM
Chris Collura commented on Eric Treece's photo.
Crab boat captain! As Doug Kiesling stated it!
Posted: Jun 11, 2015, 11:11 PM
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Posted: Jun 11, 2015, 10:51 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own photo.
I know Doug Kiesling.
Posted: Jun 11, 2015, 10:15 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Sometimes storm chasing can really bust yer balls!
Posted: Jun 11, 2015, 5:30 PM
Looks like meso scale convective vortex (MCV).It's north of the boundary so this may be mid level circulation from earlier Iowa MCS?
Posted: Jun 11, 2015, 5:28 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own photo.
Hey Dave Lewison ... Daniel Shaw had a tennis match under that (tennis ball hail size wise)!
Posted: Jun 11, 2015, 5:02 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Close to home bust in the works. Junk moved into IL from Iowa and killed the instability.
2015 post April luck continues to shaft me hard (hold the vaseline) :(
I got to start heading to Colorado more often.
Posted: Jun 11, 2015, 3:30 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own photo.
I'm sure its got giant hail. Verne Carlson is on it too as is Charles Edwards.
Posted: Jun 11, 2015, 3:11 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own photo.
Yup Dave Lewison ... I know.
Posted: Jun 11, 2015, 3:05 PM
Chris Collura commented on Verne Carlson's photo.
Posted: Jun 11, 2015, 2:55 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own photo.
Posted: Jun 11, 2015, 2:53 PM
The magic of Colorado. Discuss. ...
Posted: Jun 11, 2015, 11:59 AM
Chris Collura commented on his own photo.
These were the cells that produced baseball to softball sized hail near Minooka, IL. June 10, 2015.
Posted: Jun 11, 2015, 11:53 AM
Chris Collura commented on Willoughby Owen's post.
Posted: Jun 11, 2015, 9:39 AM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
Yeah. Doug Kiesling and to no surprise SPC added a 5% (tornado probability) area right over N IL on the 1630z. I'm not going to Iowa only to see a tornado happened 5 miles from my home here!
Posted: Jun 11, 2015, 7:37 AM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
Iowa HRRR is showing nothing more than a messy squall line / linear crap anyway. Socked in with rain all morning there and that's probably gonna kill the instability.
Messy it is ... Use a bib when you eat BBQ.
Posted: Jun 11, 2015, 7:36 AM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
Yeah Skip Talbot ... I'll take that as a compliment :/
Posted: Jun 11, 2015, 7:21 AM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
Looking at the RUC the winds look better in IL along stationary front than IA away from the surging pacific cold front west of Des Moines. Just need to get storms going there like yesterday!
Posted: Jun 11, 2015, 6:06 AM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Should I stay local today and chase after work the stationary front ... or leave work before lunch and go 5 hours to Des Moines, IA (hopefully in time) and then watch a quick evolution to a linear MCS as SPC is hinting?
Posted: Jun 11, 2015, 6:02 AM
Chris Collura commented on Lindsey Fowler's post.
Praying here too ... it's very sad and hurting when someone cuts a friendship like that. Maybe the word "friend" here - as real as it may have seemed - may be an over statement, especially in the latter part of this so called "friendship".
Posted: Jun 10, 2015, 7:55 PM
Chris Collura commented on Greg Nordstrom's post.
Posted: Jun 10, 2015, 6:12 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own photo.
Posted: Jun 10, 2015, 6:10 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own photo.
Posted: Jun 10, 2015, 6:10 PM
Mamnatus west of Chicago, IL (June 10).
Posted: Jun 10, 2015, 1:40 PM
Chris Collura commented on John Martel's post.
Provides a point of anti nucleation (bubbles burst).
Posted: Jun 10, 2015, 12:32 PM
Chris Collura commented on Mike Umscheid's post.
Posted: Jun 10, 2015, 12:29 PM
Chris Collura commented on Tim Marshall's photo.
I'm a sicker still and I am yet to score big in Colorado.
Posted: Jun 10, 2015, 10:05 AM
Chris Collura commented on his own photo.
Hey Gene Robertson ... I was already pressed and had to be back to work the next day (friday) so I was at my west most limit (hoping storms will fire and work east from Phillipsburg). So alas, no, I couldn't go west. That was hard.
Posted: Jun 10, 2015, 9:56 AM
Chris Collura commented on The Onion's link.
So someone throws a rock and kills someone with it he's not responsible because the rock is not in his possession anymore? Crazy.
Posted: Jun 10, 2015, 9:54 AM
Chris Collura commented on Extreme Nature by Mike Theiss's post.
Table rock!
Posted: Jun 10, 2015, 9:53 AM
Chris Collura commented on Daryl Orr's post.
Posted: Jun 10, 2015, 9:51 AM
Chris Collura commented on Daniel Shaw's post.
Uh oh. There's that word again: "Messy."
I guess it's a good day to stay home and knit or sew something .
Posted: Jun 10, 2015, 7:59 AM
Chris Collura commented on Chris Downs's post.
Posted: Jun 10, 2015, 7:56 AM
Chris Collura commented on John Martel's post.
http://sky-chaser.com/america.htm#PTSD
Posted: Jun 10, 2015, 6:53 AM
Chris Collura commented on his own photo.
Thanks Gene Robertson ... that was one of the most awesome times of my short trip ... seeing everyone out there in Phillipsburg ... What a chaser convergence that was!
Posted: Jun 10, 2015, 6:51 AM
Chris Collura commented on Willoughby Owen's post.
Posted: Jun 10, 2015, 6:49 AM
Chris Collura commented on Daniel Shaw's post.
Daniel Shaw ... shame on you. Now well have all 500 chasers staying near Limon, CO. Lol
Posted: Jun 9, 2015, 7:53 PM
Chris Collura commented on Scott Blair's photo.
At least. Some of these storms can reach over 60,000 feet. I've once seen 67,000 and 72,000 on echo tops.
Back on June 7, 2007 in Wisconsin I saw a storm topping at 62,000 feet which dropped 5.5" hail at Wisconsin Rapids. The 60+ dbz contour was up to 57,000 feet!
Posted: Jun 9, 2015, 7:29 PM
Chris Collura commented on Stacey Golden Kiesling's link.
I am wondering ... was one anticyclonic and the other (right / northern) tornado cyclonic?
Posted: Jun 9, 2015, 6:03 PM
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Posted: Jun 9, 2015, 9:56 AM
Chris Collura commented on Reed Timmer Extreme Meteorologist's link.
Posted: Jun 9, 2015, 6:14 AM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
Hey Lori Ferguson ... sorry I wasn't one of them. And yes indeed, George Kourounis ... One little thing / wrong turn can bust you HARD!
Posted: Jun 9, 2015, 6:03 AM
Chris Collura commented on George Kourounis's photo.
Wing suit jump off point?
Posted: Jun 9, 2015, 6:01 AM
Chris Collura commented on Dave Lewison's photo.
Tornado behind you! Behind you!
Posted: Jun 8, 2015, 2:15 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
Hey Tim Marshall ... I see the wave next weekend and another one after that the following (the latter way out in dream land model wise). I am eyeing these two up and I can chase these if I don't have to take many days off again!
Posted: Jun 8, 2015, 1:23 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Now with most of the severe weather ending and a quiet pattern coming I'll do one more rant on my chase year.
1). I'm not suffering from SDS since I nailed the tornadoes on April 8 and 9, the latter being Rochelle, IL. This was an awesome trip (but obviously the best in 2015 for me).
2). Mistake number 1: Fill your spare gas can BEFORE chasing and when you first head out. I backtracked to get gas on May 9 for an hour to find gas ... Short of the Eads, CO storm and never caught back up.
3). Eff-up number 2: Went out too early on May 18. Should have waited a few more days. Got discouraged after chasing "messy" junk (plus I had the flu and was recovering from that), and went back home May 26. Missed the May 26-27 tornadoes in Texas (Esp Canadian).
4). Big and final focker-upa: Had 3 days off available for chasing. Chased June 2-4 with time restrictions back east on the 4th. The 4th I missed everything in Colorado and cap busted in central Kansas (but storms DID form farther west ... but I had to go back east). June 5 also was missed tornadoes - Why I didn't just take June 3-5 off since I had 3 days and drive back on weekend is beyond me?
Third time is the charm, right?
Take these hard lessons learned and hopefully you won't make them yourselves any time soon. We all will unfortunately - No matter how "veteran" we are :(
Posted: Jun 8, 2015, 1:11 PM
Chris Collura commented on Verne Carlson's post.
So basically I did in fact miss Pilger (or something as significant as it). I always wondered and cringed on how that would feel.
Now I know (initiated after 25 chase years), finally.
This year for me (after May 9) is beyond embarrassing and I'm hanging my head in shame.
Posted: Jun 8, 2015, 7:20 AM
Chris Collura commented on Brian Emfinger's post.
Posted: Jun 8, 2015, 7:17 AM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Attention storm chasers ... I have hail guards for a Ford Escape (2002 to 2012 body style) that I will no longer be needing after this chase season (late June) as I will be retiring my vehicle (2009 Escape) from chasing eventually. If anyone has a Ford escape (prior to 2012) let me know as I will DONATE these guards. I'll be sad just throwing them away. I'm in the Chicago USA area.
Posted: Jun 8, 2015, 7:10 AM
Chris Collura commented on Billy Wade's post.
The earth is covered by 74% water and we are still discovering new life on land. I'm sure the oceans will always have life well probably never come across.
Posted: Jun 8, 2015, 7:07 AM
Chris Collura commented on Luis Alberto LLense's photo.
No, there's simply a hot tub time machine in there that sends the sock back in time.
Posted: Jun 8, 2015, 7:06 AM
Chris Collura commented on Kory Livermore's post.
He should be paralyzed from the neck down ... Looks like his years at the gym paid off.
Posted: Jun 8, 2015, 7:00 AM
Chris Collura commented on Marko Korošec's photo.
Good Ole KEUX!
Posted: Jun 8, 2015, 5:57 AM
Chris Collura commented on Charles Edwards's photo.
Hey Tim Marshall ... If a tornado hits a bank or financial institution miles away ... Yes indeed, money can be included with the hail :)
Posted: Jun 8, 2015, 5:56 AM
Chris Collura commented on Daniel Shaw's post.
Incredible composition. .. nice job!
Posted: Jun 8, 2015, 5:55 AM
Chris Collura commented on Dave Lewison's photo.
Really nice!
Posted: Jun 7, 2015, 7:57 PM
Chris Collura commented on Kim Dunn Schwer's post.
This is getting old. Scott Peake has the REAL thing (Eads, CO on 5/9).
Posted: Jun 7, 2015, 7:56 PM
Chris Collura commented on Caryn Hill's post.
Posted: Jun 7, 2015, 7:55 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
NO guys. I did NOT chase in IL today. I just saw 3 movies. Much more entertaining! Much better QUALITY time spent with buddy of mine too ...
Posted: Jun 7, 2015, 5:03 PM
Chris Collura commented on Jack Corso's post.
Posted: Jun 7, 2015, 4:37 PM
Chris Collura commented on Blake Naftel's post.
Good move ... Get out of a state with weirdos and highly veered flow.
Posted: Jun 7, 2015, 9:50 AM
Chris Collura commented on Verne Carlson's post.
Glad you are OK again! Dude you are not Scott Peake (no pun intended). Very lucky.
Posted: Jun 7, 2015, 9:43 AM
Chris Collura commented on James Smart's photo.
Looks ok to me :)
Posted: Jun 7, 2015, 9:08 AM
Chris Collura commented on Matt Sellers's photo.
Exact geographic center of the USA.
Posted: Jun 7, 2015, 9:07 AM
Chris Collura commented on Charles Edwards's photo.
Wind turbine pole section?
Posted: Jun 7, 2015, 9:06 AM
Chris Collura commented on Dave Lewison's post.
The enhanced risk over IL is gone. Plus I am there. 2% tor probably along surging front. You won't miss anything.
Posted: Jun 7, 2015, 9:05 AM
Chris Collura commented on John Farley's post.
Hey what year is it guys?
Exactly. I rest my case (snap!)...
Posted: Jun 7, 2015, 9:02 AM
Chris Collura replied to Jack Corso's comment.
Duh, it wouldn't be Colorado now would it? Dumb question. Sorry.
Posted: Jun 7, 2015, 9:01 AM
Chris Collura commented on Brian Stertz's post.
I ALMOST went to Nebraska since it's 7 hours from me. That would have netted me more gas receipts, messy storms, and more negative / sad rants on Facebook.
Posted: Jun 6, 2015, 9:11 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Finally I didn't miss anything big today in NE. Skydived today and ate pho soup. Sleep good tonight :)
Posted: Jun 6, 2015, 4:29 PM
Like "flies on shit"!
Posted: Jun 6, 2015, 4:23 PM
Chris Collura commented on Scott Peake's photo.
Posted: Jun 6, 2015, 3:15 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
I took my chase trip leaving late Monday (6/1) and HAD TO BE BACK on Friday (6/5). What was my mistake here?
Sure. Easy. Since I had 3 days off cleared at work, and NO MORE than that ... WTF didn't I just leave Wed (6/3) and come back Sunday (6/7).
Duh...
Posted: Jun 6, 2015, 2:57 PM
Chris Collura commented on Charles Edwards's photo.
I'm not there so it should be a good one ... enjoy! !!!
Posted: Jun 6, 2015, 2:06 PM
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Posted: Jun 6, 2015, 2:05 PM
Chris Collura commented on Charles Edwards's photo.
Not in the right area though (E NE).
Posted: Jun 6, 2015, 11:45 AM
Chris Collura commented on Meteorologist Tony Laubach's post.
I'm sorry I CASTED THIS SPELL on you, Tony Laubach. Being in my shoes is far worse though. I had to abandon W Kansas on June 4 to be in an important meeting stuff in my office in Chicago on June 5. This was MY WORST defeat in 25+ years of chasing. And only a week after missing May 27 in TX (also because I headed back May 26). These things happen to all chasers. When it does ... man it SUCKS! Being Italian and from NY ... I just made repairs to my broken steering column and dash (that I fisted late on June 4 heading east on I80). Lots of sailors talk in my car and kept the music OFF all the way back to ChiTown.
Posted: Jun 6, 2015, 11:17 AM
Chris Collura commented on Bill Hark's post.
Wow ... Amazing and sad. Sea level is rising and we'll be seeing more and more of this. Nature does indeed "take it back" (as Pink Floyd sang). She's the boss.
Posted: Jun 6, 2015, 11:12 AM
Chris Collura commented on Neva Andersen's post.
Yet a Vietnamese friend of mine is struggling and working 12 hours 6 days a week and most likely she will be deported soon. Never seen so many people we call a "government" with their heads so far up their asses.
Posted: Jun 6, 2015, 10:59 AM
Cloud Punch cocktail. .. Humm very fittingPlace: Chicagoland Skydiving Center (41.89266998826, -89.071537256241) Address: 1207 East Gurler Road, Rochelle, Illinois 61068
Posted: Jun 6, 2015, 10:57 AM
Chris Collura commented on Tim Marshall's photo.
York ... Experience It (from a brochure I saw at Yorkshire motel next to Sapp Bros).
Posted: Jun 6, 2015, 10:54 AM
Chris Collura commented on Tim Marshall's photo.
I call that the beach ball. Glad you got out. Too far for me today as I've chased almost all week with bum luck and I'm sitting this out couple days.
Posted: Jun 6, 2015, 10:29 AM
Chris Collura commented on his own photo.
Hey Stephen Sponsler ... my point here is the Colorado area. 2% there is like 45% hatched tornado probabilities elsewhere.
Posted: Jun 6, 2015, 10:25 AM
Chris Collura updated his status.
OK ... Time to put my past week of crappy chase luck behind me. I'm not chasing today (6/6) but possibly a backyard chase tomorrow here in IL. Looking at more prospects towards next weekend but that's way out.
Meanwhile in Colorado I'm sure all the steak restaurants within a 50 mile radius of Limon / Kiowa ran out of steak on June 4 and 5 ... Get it?
Posted: Jun 6, 2015, 10:20 AM
Chris Collura commented on Skip Talbot's photo.
I remember June 6, 2009. SW Iowa cap bust.
Posted: Jun 6, 2015, 10:17 AM
Chris Collura commented on George Kourounis's photo.
I'll bring a parachute but it might be too narrow to free fall in such a confined space.
Posted: Jun 6, 2015, 8:01 AM
Chris Collura replied to Dave Lewison's comment.
At 40 us skydivers join POPS (Parachutists over Phorty they call it). Happy B Day!
Posted: Jun 6, 2015, 8:00 AM
Chris Collura replied to Dave Lewison's comment.
LOL I know. Just thought the 40 numbers was cool though!
Posted: Jun 6, 2015, 7:59 AM
Chris Collura wrote on Dave Lewison's timeline.
Happy birthday! When I turned 40 I skydived from 400 MB, or 24,000 feet (I called it "40 and 400 mb")!
Posted: Jun 5, 2015, 9:28 PM
Tomorrow's forecast ... Enjoy.
Posted: Jun 5, 2015, 9:16 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
Hey Jason Foster ... The auto museum entrance is tucked in the back of the gift shop here and very easy to miss. General Lee from Dukes of Hazard (or one of them that was not wrecked in jumps) is there too.
Posted: Jun 5, 2015, 9:15 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own photo.
A day too soon ... I know.
Posted: Jun 5, 2015, 9:14 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own photo.
Imagine ME stuck in THIS SAME SPOT on June 4th instead of the 3rd (same time)? I guess that's why my heart is still working and I still have some hair on my head.
Posted: Jun 5, 2015, 9:09 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
Thanks guys ... I really appreciate the compliments.
Posted: Jun 5, 2015, 9:07 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
I thought I had this year all figured out ... Telling boss I will be out Tuesday through Thursday, then returning Friday at lunch instead of 8 AM, pushing it as hard as I can (leaving work Monday at 5 PM to make Kansas City by midnight - yeah great - It's doable but is it worth the fatigue?) ... To try to get something ... I learned this tactic DOES NOT WORK (as in W-O-R-K - count the letters) - Sometimes you'll get lucky, but most of the time you'll wind up "cornering a target" simply because you NEED to be "back" and can't go farther "west" (or such) - That's when the good stuff forms 100 miles in THAT WRONG direction. Murphey is NEVER on a storm chasers side.
Posted: Jun 5, 2015, 9:06 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
Yeah I know guys ... I thought I had this year all figured out ... Telling boss I will be out Tuesday through Thursday, then returning Friday at lunch instead of 8 AM, pushing it as hard to try to get something ... I learned this tactic DOES NOT WORK (as in W-O-R-K - count the letters).
Posted: Jun 5, 2015, 9:03 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own photo.
Yes .. I know ... The unhappy face just before MISSING about 20 tornadoes?
Posted: Jun 5, 2015, 6:06 PM
Chris Collura commented on Doug Kiesling's link.
Just wow. Screw work.
Posted: Jun 5, 2015, 6:05 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
Hey Dave Lewison ... That's the only thing that is keeping me ALIVE now. My BIG DAY for 2015 was Rochelle IL on April 9.
Posted: Jun 5, 2015, 5:29 PM
Chris Collura commented on Billy Wade's post.
I was IN COLORADO for 2 days ... UNTIL 18 hours BEFORE all this started happening. So I would not complain, Billy Wade.
Posted: Jun 5, 2015, 5:29 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
Embarrasing is an understatement ... nearly 10,000 miles
Posted: Jun 5, 2015, 5:20 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
MAJOR slump right now in my storm chasing career. Just simply NOT on the good stuff. I hope that damn ridge sets in and shuts things down a bit - I'm sick of missing stuff. Yesterday (6/4) I HAD to turn around on the Atwood, KS storm and HAD to be back at work Friday for meetings and such. Same crap last week. Not a good time right now being a "storm chaser". What a TEASE...
Posted: Jun 5, 2015, 5:15 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
Yeah ... I'll wind up throwing those golf clubs and hurting someone anyway. The crochet stuff should be more tame.
Posted: Jun 5, 2015, 4:58 PM
Chris Collura commented on Scott Peake's post.
Posted: Jun 5, 2015, 4:57 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Once again ... I have to return from chasing GARBAGE for 4 days just before the GOOD STUFF happens.
The thing is that I am STARTING to get USED to it, so it's not as agonizing as May 27 in TX (or June 4 in CO).
I just bought a bunch of yarn, some golf clubs, crochet / knitting supplies ... Better hobby than storm chasing (good for the heart too).
Posted: Jun 5, 2015, 4:54 PM
Chris Collura commented on Scott Peake's post.
Posted: Jun 5, 2015, 4:45 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
Yeah ... Already booked tickets to Baja and I'm texting this from the plane. --Sorry not that stupid (in that respect). Tropical depression at landfall / CPA at best.
Posted: Jun 5, 2015, 4:41 PM
Chris Collura commented on Dave Lewison's post.
No ... Colorado is producing as we speak. Don't worry I aint out there so you are all fine.
Posted: Jun 4, 2015, 7:43 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
I am pretty much done for chasing for this spring. Unless something unforseen in the remainder of June / local chases, I am pretty much done for now. It's been great seeing everyone and being out there. My best days were April 8-9. After that, Murpheys law started to bite - Had to go back for work and the same place I was in a day earlier gets a tornado fest. May 9 is when this "Miami Dolphins" losing streak started - So I just gave up for now. Go Colorado...
Posted: Jun 4, 2015, 6:07 PM
Chris Collura commented on Mark G. Farmer's post.
Beautiful. .. I had to abandon that beast.
Posted: Jun 4, 2015, 5:33 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
I simply cannot chase farther west. I have to head back east to be at work tomorrow. Now I see a tornado warned storm near Atwood, KS ... about 80 miles west of where I was waiting in Phillipsburg. This is very hard.
Posted: Jun 4, 2015, 4:54 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Missing Campo part deux in Colorado now sucks. I'm ready to just quit this hobby :(
Posted: Jun 4, 2015, 4:30 PM
Cap bust and finally starting the long trip back to chicago.
Posted: Jun 4, 2015, 4:17 PM
Phillipsburg, Kansas cap bust. Like if you wanna join us...Tiny funnel on orphan anvil.
Posted: Jun 4, 2015, 3:01 PM
Chris Collura commented on Brett Wright's post.
Posted: Jun 4, 2015, 2:28 PM
Chris Collura commented on Brett Wright's post.
I'm right under that stuff ... it's trying hard.
Posted: Jun 4, 2015, 1:16 PM
Chris Collura commented on Doug Kiesling's post.
And he's got the whole storm to himself. It's beyond me why that didn't happen yesterday.
Posted: Jun 4, 2015, 1:15 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
So ... what was SUPPOSED to happen in CO and WY should happen TODAY? Tons of chasers in N/C Kansas and S NE now. Go figure...
Posted: Jun 4, 2015, 10:54 AM
Chris Collura commented on John Martel's post.
Consult Scott Peake for a real un-photoshopped version of this (May 9 near Eads, CO) :)
Posted: Jun 4, 2015, 10:49 AM
Chris Collura commented on Jeffrey Lâm Hùng's post.
Posted: Jun 4, 2015, 10:48 AM
That's scary. Lunch in Grand Island but a much milder version of the wings!
Posted: Jun 4, 2015, 10:41 AM
Chris Collura commented on Artemose Prime's post.
Posted: Jun 4, 2015, 10:12 AM
Chris Collura commented on Eric Treece's post.
Don't feel so bad. Yesterday I got a good view of the Kiowa supercell but not after blasting down I25 from Cheyenne in 45 minutes only to take another hour from Denver to near Byers in rush hour traffic.
Posted: Jun 4, 2015, 9:10 AM
Chris Collura commented on Jerry Prsha's post.
Posted: Jun 4, 2015, 8:47 AM
Chris Collura commented on Sharon Austin's photo.
Posted: Jun 4, 2015, 8:45 AM
Chris Collura commented on Stephen Skelly's post.
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Posted: Jun 4, 2015, 8:42 AM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Out of North Platte and headed east. The 4000+ CAPE and RUC breaking out precip by 20z in N\C Kansas / Southern NE looks very tempting :/
Posted: Jun 4, 2015, 8:38 AM
Chris Collura commented on Dalton Do's post.
Posted: Jun 3, 2015, 11:20 PM
Chris Collura commented on Caryn Hill's post.
Posted: Jun 3, 2015, 10:37 PM
Chris Collura commented on a post.
Posted: Jun 3, 2015, 10:35 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Good night from North Platte, chasers.
Posted: Jun 3, 2015, 7:50 PM
Chris Collura commented on Charles Edwards's photo.
Severe multicellular cluster just moving into Cheyenne now.
Posted: Jun 3, 2015, 7:48 PM
Chris Collura commented on Lori Ferguson's photo.
Yep. Thought I could have redeemed myself today for missing this. Nope. That salt hurts in there.
Posted: Jun 3, 2015, 7:13 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own photo.
That turned out to be the best chase day of this trip too, Dalton Tuan Do.
Posted: Jun 3, 2015, 6:51 PM
Chris Collura commented on Brian Stertz's post.
Either my presence there or SPC under forecasted this. I'll go home so you all can see tornadoes in a 2%.
Posted: Jun 3, 2015, 6:49 PM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Barely made it to the Palmer Divide supercell west of Deer Trail as it weakened. Not much near Cheyenne WY either. 10% tor probably my ass.
Posted: Jun 3, 2015, 5:42 PM
Chris Collura commented on his own photo.
No choice had to go through that shit. Then construction.
Posted: Jun 3, 2015, 5:11 PM
25 miles from supercell. Might as well be 225 miles - Screw 2015.
Posted: Jun 3, 2015, 2:37 PM
Chris Collura commented on Verne Carlson's photo.
It's the farthest cell away from me so " be ready".
Posted: Jun 3, 2015, 10:59 AM
Chris Collura replied to his own comment.
Hey Olivier Staiger ... Altocumulus Castellanus.
Posted: Jun 3, 2015, 10:30 AM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Just east of Cheyenne (WY) under nice CU field. Sky looks more like Florida than Wyoming.
Posted: Jun 3, 2015, 10:29 AM
For those headed west on I-80 today be wary of annoying "if it's not broke why fix it?" type of road work. Watch the speed zones in these areas.
Posted: Jun 3, 2015, 10:18 AM
Chris Collura commented on Olivier Staiger's photo.
ACCAS anyone?
Posted: Jun 3, 2015, 7:27 AM
Yesterday (June 2) near Marshland, NE west of 385 and near SR 71.
Posted: Jun 3, 2015, 7:11 AM
Chris Collura commented on iCyclone's photo.
Cabo again? That will really stink for them if that verifies.
Posted: Jun 3, 2015, 7:10 AM
Chris Collura commented on Matt Sellers's post.
Works if you can't find a hotel. I've done it. The CO issue there bites.
Posted: Jun 3, 2015, 7:07 AM
Early morning coffee here in Ogallala, NE before a big chase day. I hope this is a good sign for things to come (funnel wise)...
Posted: Jun 3, 2015, 6:57 AM
Chris Collura commented on Joseph Barton Comstock's video.
Looks like what highway 385 turns into north of Hot Springs in Custer county SD.
Posted: Jun 3, 2015, 6:48 AM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Looks like I'll be headed west into Cheyenne, Wyoming and areas nearby today (6/3) for a pretty good shot at seeing tornadoes. Reminds me of June 5, 2009 in many ways.
Posted: Jun 2, 2015, 10:37 PM
Chris Collura commented on Charles Edwards's photo.
The downscale evolution of that LP was amazing. With the setting sun on it ... and it was still producing 1" hail at that point!
Posted: Jun 2, 2015, 10:34 PM
That's one big MCS. Doesn't look like a "broken bow" to me!
Posted: Jun 2, 2015, 7:29 PM
Downscale LP evolution (barber pole up draft).
Posted: Jun 2, 2015, 6:38 PM
Chris Collura commented on Jason Foster's post.
I guess "something" happened in the middle easy or something.
Posted: Jun 2, 2015, 6:36 PM
Northwest of Dalton, NE ... Weakening LP supercell.
Posted: Jun 2, 2015, 4:34 PM
Haboob (dust storm with outflow of severe storm near Hemingford, NE.
Posted: Jun 2, 2015, 11:06 AM
Chris Collura was at Pioneer Auto Museum.
Place: Pioneer Auto Museum (43.8861, -100.70655305516) Address: 503 5th St, Murdo, South Dakota 57559Place: Pioneer Auto Museum (43.8861, -100.70655305516) Address: 503 5th St, Murdo, South Dakota 57559
Posted: Jun 2, 2015, 5:55 AM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Sitting in Sioux City, IA this morning and planning to chase from central SD into north central Nebraska later.
Posted: Jun 1, 2015, 9:03 AM
Chris Collura commented on his own post.
Stephen Skelly ... We DO NOT like to see storms hit a town or destroy stuff. Trust me - It's the worst feeling experiencing that. On par to losing my mom. When we study tornadoes ... We prefer to see them form in a rural farm not hitting a town.
Posted: Jun 1, 2015, 8:54 AM
Chris Collura commented on Jeff Gammons's post.
Posted: Jun 1, 2015, 8:52 AM
Chris Collura commented on Charles Eugene's video.
Posted: Jun 1, 2015, 8:48 AM
Chris Collura updated his status.
Back on here after almost a week. Sorry guys nothing personal. Anyway I'm eyeing up a potential target to chase in Nebraska tomorrow (6/2) and Wednesday (6/3) fir short chase trip using time off this week (you know, the same time off I should have used properly last week) :/
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