{"id":303,"date":"2018-06-26T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/?p=303"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:05:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:05:03","slug":"2018-technical-tornadoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/2018\/06\/26\/2018-technical-tornadoes\/","title":{"rendered":"2018 Technical Tornadoes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When it comes to tallying tornado sightings, I’ve landed on two categories — legit tornadoes<\/strong> and technical tornadoes.<\/strong> Those latter ones come up when I scour and enhance my video and still photos later, pair them up with confirmed tornado reports and imagery and notice that I managed to catch either funnel or debris in my footage. I’ve also lumped in a couple cases where I’ve spotted funnels that I suspected at the time I was seeing them, but wrote them off, only to find out later they actually had been tornadic. These are three from this past chase season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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May 1: Chester, KS tornado<\/strong>
I picked up the funnel for a couple minutes on the dash cam without realizing it. In the moment, I was more concerned with staying out of the hook as we cruised down I-70 and wasn’t noticing the new circulation handing off further east. Only after seeing the report and checking vs. my time stamps did I notice it on the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 1: Tescott, KS tornado<\/strong>
I was in a great spot to see at least the first minute or so of this one if I had just waited. But I got anxious that the storm was going to get away from us and wanted to get in a better intercept location near Bennington. So I wound up jumping back on I-70 about 30-60 seconds before it touched down. I had my window-mounted video camera recording the wall cloud, but the hills were way more of an issue than I realized they’d be. I got a few frames where the dark edges of the wedge were visible between hills, beneath the wall cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 27: Federal, WY tornado<\/strong>
Just after catching a beautiful rope tornado north of Cheyenne, I was about to reposition when I noticed the new wall cloud had a fang dropping down on its leading edge. I started tearing cameras out of the car and got crooked video of it just as it was at its pointiest, and a still photo just as it was degenerating. I figured it was probably just a scary looking scud tag at the time and disregarded it. Reports, photos and time stamp comparisons later identified it as being tornadic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With those, my count for 2018 is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • 3 tornado days<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 8 legit tornadoes<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 3 technical tornadoes \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    I’ve also got a what-the-heck-nado from May 2nd, but that’s a story for another time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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