{"id":53,"date":"2014-04-06T06:31:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T06:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/?p=53"},"modified":"2014-04-06T06:31:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T06:31:08","slug":"may-20th-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vaughanweather.com\/chase\/may-20th-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"May 20th 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- Awesome Flickr Gallery Start --><!-- - Version - 3.5.6 - User ID - 65051383@N05 - Photoset ID - 72157633621584603 - Gallery ID -  - Group ID -  - Tags -  - Popular -  - Per Page - 10 - Sort Order - flickr - Photo Size - NULL - Custom Size - 0 - Square - false - Captions - off - Description - on - Columns - 1 - Credit Note - off - Background Color - Transparent - Width - auto - Pagination - on - Slideshow - colorbox - Disable slideshow? - --><div class='afg-gallery custom-gallery-17' id='afg-17' style='background-color:Transparent; width:100%; color:; border-color:Transparent;'><div class='afg-table' style='width:100%'><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example417'  href='https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8549\/8802983839_fa732973e6_b.jpg' title='Coming into View'><img class='afg-img' title='Coming into View' src='https:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8549\/8802983839_fa732973e6.jpg' alt='Coming into View \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/8802983839\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>Today was one of those wait and see and hope and wish and drive type days. All the moisture, energy and instability was contained to southern and central Michigan as a warm front lifted north across much of the Northeast U.S and Southeastern Canada.\n\nEarlier in the week models had shown storms erupting across southwestern and southcentral Ontario around the dinner hour but as the forecast day drew closer, the incoming trough aloft slowed down and ushered in more capped air in the mid levels leaving the cooler less stable air farther west.\n\nThis meant that here in Southern Ontario we were widely out of luck, but the HRRR did have one interesting card up its sleve. It showed the stuff in Michigan to eventually go linear and turn into an MCS (this was widely supported by the the mid and upper level wind fields). The MCS was then supposed to rapidly begin accelerating east across Lake Huron and blast into Southern Ontario with the nose of the forecast bow-echo to land somewhere around Teeswater which agreed well with the actual surface observations and radar data.\n\nMy biggest fear was that the stable marine air over Lake Huron would kill the line of storms long before they had a chance to hit Canadian soil as is sometimes the case. I was concerned because they were going to be outpacing the more unstable air and moving into a more and more capped atmosphere.\n\nI tried to take a nap because I was tired and had to work overnight after the chase but the tornado action in Oklahoma kept me awake and then I watched as Moore was taken off the map again much like it had been on May 3rd 1999. It was horrific to watch but at the same time kept me glued to the live streams.\n\nAfter getting virtually no sleep, the HRRR forecast began to validate as the storms in Michgan began to line out and blast eastward. I jumped in the truck and took off.\n\nI spoke to fellow chaser Dave Patrick on the phone, he was farther west than I was and in good position. Looking at the radar I figured I had another hour or so before I would be into the squall line since it was only over central Lake Huron at about the time I was entering the Town of Lucknow. I immediately called Dave to see what was going on in front of me and he said it was blasting him with dirt and gustnadoes.\n\nI was sort of stunned since the storms were still so far away on radar, or at least that's where the precipitation was. I didn't notice it at the time, but if you look near the horizon you'll see a brown wall of dust just above it! I was so busy getting the graduated ND on the camera and aligning everything so perfectly I did not realize that the interior of my car was going to get pretty dusty soon.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example417'  href='https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7459\/8802971979_c661cd82b7_b.jpg' title='Gust Front Coming!'><img class='afg-img' title='Gust Front Coming!' src='https:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7459\/8802971979_c661cd82b7.jpg' alt='Gust Front Coming! \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/8802971979\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>The storm looked okay, it was far from producing anything impressive and the colours were pretty bland but I was still excited to see if there were any good winds on the leading edge. I was absolutely dieing to test a new Inspeed anemometer that I had purchased just for purposes like this!<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example417'  href='https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8136\/8802972527_91673e40bc_b.jpg' title='Video Camera Grab'><img class='afg-img' title='Video Camera Grab' src='https:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8136\/8802972527_91673e40bc.jpg' alt='Video Camera Grab \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/8802972527\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>As soon as the storm came within a good close view, I grabbed my video camera and began getting video. This is one of those things that makes far better video than it does a still photo. With the video you have motion, action and sound, with the still photo, all you really have is just a moment in time, which sometimes does little to illustrate what happens or is about to happen next.\n\nSo video from this point on took priority!<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example417'  href='https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7356\/8813570068_5e3a161074_b.jpg' title='Video Grab 2'><img class='afg-img' title='Video Grab 2' src='https:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7356\/8813570068_5e3a161074.jpg' alt='Video Grab 2 \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/8813570068\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>This is just the coolest things! It was incredibly dry across much of Southern Ontario for a good part of May and a late planting season saw many farmers tilling their fields just days prior to this storm rolling in. The barren and dusty fields created an amazing display, it's not like seeing strong straight line winds or a tornado, it's more like a feeling of &quot;that's just cool!&quot; without actually shouting that out.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example417'  href='https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7315\/8802973957_15028ed9ce_b.jpg' title='Video Caption 3'><img class='afg-img' title='Video Caption 3' src='https:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7315\/8802973957_15028ed9ce.jpg' alt='Video Caption 3 \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/8802973957\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>At about this time somewhere in the back of my mind I was thinking &quot;it's getting close, that's a lot of dust, should I stay out and get hit, what about the camera and lens? Wait, my truck windows are rolled down!&quot;<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example417'  href='https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8136\/8813557044_71914b0ac7_b.jpg' title='Video Caption 4'><img class='afg-img' title='Video Caption 4' src='https:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8136\/8813557044_71914b0ac7.jpg' alt='Video Caption 4 \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/8813557044\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>I managed to jump into the truck and get the windows and doors closed just as the wall of dust hit. I kept shooting video through the windshield with both the Canon XH-A1 and on my Sony Handycam I have mounted on the dash.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example417'  href='https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7333\/8813759458_fb40fd03b6_b.jpg' title='Maximum Gust 1'><img class='afg-img' title='Maximum Gust 1' src='https:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7333\/8813759458_fb40fd03b6.jpg' alt='Maximum Gust 1 \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/8813759458\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>Like I said, this was the first time I had the ability to actually put the Inspeed Anemometer to the test, I was hoping and probably expecting stronger winds but the absolute highest gust I measured while on the hill, outside of Lucknow was 50.3 km\/h, hardly a severe gust! Heck, you'd be lucky if that tipped over your trash can.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example417'  href='https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7417\/8803013609_83b79af9ff_b.jpg' title='On The Road'><img class='afg-img' title='On The Road' src='https:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7417\/8803013609_83b79af9ff.jpg' alt='On The Road \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/8803013609\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>Now knowing the storms outflow was only moving at around 50km\/h peak I knew I could keep pace and get back out in front of the storm for a second round.\n\nI actually had my camera at this point mounted to my window and was able to snap this shot while looking for somewhere to stop. The contrast was pretty cool!<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example417'  href='https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3787\/8802984261_bed5c81684_b.jpg' title='Video Caption 5'><img class='afg-img' title='Video Caption 5' src='https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3787\/8802984261_bed5c81684.jpg' alt='Video Caption 5 \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/8802984261\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>The gustfront was spinning up all sorts of eddies glorified as gustnadoes. COOL!<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><div class='afg-cell' style='width:100%;'><a class='afgcolorbox' rel='example417'  href='https:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3793\/8802985623_aa62c957c7_b.jpg' title='Video Caption 5'><img class='afg-img' title='Video Caption 5' src='https:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3793\/8802985623_aa62c957c7.jpg' alt='Video Caption 5 \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/8802985623\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'\/><\/a><div class='afg-description'>The dust made visibility in places poor.<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='afg-row'><a style='display:none' class='afgcolorbox' rel='example417'  href='https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8273\/8813568592_ca1d7821fb_b.jpg' title='Video Caption 6'> <img class='afg-img' alt='Video Caption 6 \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; href=&quot;http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65051383@N05\/8813568592\/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;View on Flickr&lt;\/a&gt;'  width='75' height='75'><\/a> <\/div><div class='afg-row'><a style='display:none' class='afgcolorbox' rel='example417'  href='https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2858\/8802997015_48fed9cc58_b.jpg' title='Back Ahead'> <img class='afg-img' alt='Back Ahead \u2022 &lt;a style=&quot;font-size:0.8em;&quot; 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