April 20, 2003 Tornado Photos

michaelwmoss · #1 Postby **michaelwmoss** » Sun May 09, 2004 9:22 pm

Just found this while surfing National Weather Service Indianapolis website.

Six Tornadoes confirmed with a couple of F1's and F0's. 3 Separate Supercells. The pictures are awesome though!!

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ind/april20_2004.htm

And more info:

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ind/april%2020_2004.htm

PTrackerLA · #2 Postby **PTrackerLA** » Sun May 09, 2004 9:36 pm

Wow what awesome pictures. Love the pictures of the Jamestown tornado that show it forming.

michaelwmoss · #3 Postby **michaelwmoss** » Sun May 09, 2004 9:48 pm

The media went crazy over these Tornadoes. They formed so quickly. We were not even under a General T-storm Risk, No Meso was even issued. One Storm poped up in Putnam County, Indiana and then it went downhill quickly.

Here in Johnson County, no severe, just pretty distant storm clouds

Optical · #4 Postby **Optical** » Mon May 10, 2004 12:34 pm

Great pictures!

michaelwmoss · #5 Postby **michaelwmoss** » Mon May 10, 2004 12:38 pm

Though Doubtful, maybe we will see more of those today. Storms are here in my area right at this time.

40 mph gust, no hail. Lots of cool lightning

ck2k001 · #6 Postby **ck2k001** » Thu May 20, 2004 5:08 pm

Hey All,

I was chasing the storm outside of Elwood with 3 other Ball State storm chasers. We ended up skipping class (which was a tornado case study class) to chase these storms. We got VERY lucky with the "Mothership", we pulled up to it right as it was forming. Simply awesome! Take Care.

-Chris

Amanzi · #7 Postby **Amanzi** » Thu May 20, 2004 5:21 pm

WOW! Those are cool pics.
Thanks for posting.

Rainband · #8 Postby **Rainband** » Thu May 20, 2004 5:58 pm

Nice pics. Thanks for posting them

Aquawind · #9 Postby **Aquawind** » Thu May 20, 2004 6:16 pm

Great Quality Pics!! Thanx!!

Scott_inVA · #10 Postby **Scott_inVA** » Thu May 20, 2004 10:01 pm

Nice pix.

Mike over at Extreme posted a great chase sequence of photos from May 17 SC in Iowa. Along with being good pictures they can be educational if one has never seen a tail hugging the ground. Makes me jealous.

http://www.extremeinstability.com/04-5-17.htm

Scott

michaelwmoss · #11 Postby **michaelwmoss** » Fri May 21, 2004 12:47 am

ck2k001 wrote:Hey All,

I was chasing the storm outside of Elwood with 3 other Ball State storm chasers. We ended up skipping class (which was a tornado case study class) to chase these storms. We got VERY lucky with the "Mothership", we pulled up to it right as it was forming. Simply awesome! Take Care.

-Chris

Awesome! Do you have any pictures or video footage?

michaelwmoss · #12 Postby **michaelwmoss** » Fri May 21, 2004 12:53 am

Scott_inVA wrote:Nice pix.

Mike over at Extreme posted a great chase sequence of photos from May 17 SC in Iowa. Along with being good pictures they can be educational if one has never seen a tail hugging the ground. Makes me jealous.

http://www.extremeinstability.com/04-5-17.htm

Scott

Now that's what I'm talking about!! Awesome stuff there!!

AirmaN · #13 Postby **AirmaN** » Sat May 22, 2004 11:55 am

Excellent pics! I one day dream of getting some neat pics like that.

ck2k001 · #14 Postby **ck2k001** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 9:24 pm

michaelwmoss wrote:
ck2k001 wrote:Hey All,

I was chasing the storm outside of Elwood with 3 other Ball State storm chasers. We ended up skipping class (which was a tornado case study class) to chase these storms. We got VERY lucky with the "Mothership", we pulled up to it right as it was forming. Simply awesome! Take Care.

-Chris

Awesome! Do you have any pictures or video footage?

pawlee · #15 Postby **pawlee** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 6:20 am

since you are from IN, you might enjoy the following. sent to me from a friend who lives there, below is a collection of damage pics he took from the tornado to hit Peru May 30...

http://www.pawleewurx.com/perutornado.html

michaelwmoss · #16 Postby **michaelwmoss** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 2:41 pm

Incredible! That is the only damage I have seen from Peru from that twister.

I saw the damage in the Indianapolis area. Very localized but very intense

StormCrazyIowan · #17 Postby **StormCrazyIowan** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 9:22 am

Back to April 20, boy do I remember that day! My chase partner was in town for a spotter class we were going to go to (even though we didn't really need to)... it was dreary and about 49°F in the afternoon and we had totally thrown in the towel. We were so bored that we were being total goofs singing and dancing in my livingroom, and all of a sudden we looked out the window, and the sky had taken on "the look". OMG, we raced out of the house down to the public library (I didn't have internet access at the time) and everything had blown up in IL and IN... not to mention things were developing fast here and the temp had made it to 65°F!! We ended up catching a rotating wall cloud that day.. a possible tornado but we weren't close enough to determine, just an awesome chase! I have pictures somewhere, but all of my albums are unfinished, so give me time and I will get them together! (Dial up demons!)

I also have pictures from May 16 in Nebraska, and May 30 here in Iowa

michaelwmoss · #18 Postby **michaelwmoss** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 10:47 am

I can truly say, that day caught me and the SPC offguard. Nature isn't going to reveal all of her secrets just yet:)

I would love to see those pics

StormCrazyIowan · #19 Postby **StormCrazyIowan** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 2:12 pm

Oh yeah, we were flabbergasted to say the least!!

Promise I'll give the link as soon as I get em up!

michaelwmoss · #20 Postby **michaelwmoss** » Thu Jun 24, 2004 1:00 am

Sounds great I appreciate it

Looks like tomorrow might even be a little interesting around here

April 20, 2003 Tornado Photos

April 20, 2003 Tornado Photos

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