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StormChaserMax uploaded a new video
(2 months ago)
This is the strongest trade wind event I have ever filmed in Hawaii. The...
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This is the strongest trade wind event I have ever filmed in Hawaii. The winds were strong over a large area (30-45mph), but there was a narrow ribbon of high winds (maybe a mile or so wide) where there top gusts were in the 70-75mph range.
This narrow streak of extreme winds blew down the Kohala mountains and managed to remain in between Kawaihae Harbor and the Kohala By the Sea housing subdivision, a distance of only a mile and a half or so.
In the path of the strongest winds, there were downed trees and moments where the blowing dust became so thick that visibility dropped to almost 0.
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StormChaserMax uploaded a new video
(1 year ago)
I was not hiding from the tornado beneath the overpass. The tornado has ...
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I was not hiding from the tornado beneath the overpass. The tornado has dissipated, and the wall cloud had passed the road several miles in front of us. We were simply trying to protect our car from the hail.
Filmed in Noble County, Oklahoma on May 24, 2008.
The winds got pretty strong for a little but - maybe gusting up to 65 or 70mph. Afterwards we saw some damaged billboards and uprooted trees in the area.
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StormChaserMax uploaded a new video
(1 year ago)
I lost the majority of this footage, sadly, but I still have a few of th...
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I lost the majority of this footage, sadly, but I still have a few of the most important clips left.
This was my first day ever storm chasing! After a few wall clouds failed to create a tornado (although one swirled a funnel right over our heads) a tornado finally developed around sunset just outside of Waakeny, KS. The tornado was very well photographed as it crossed a county road and became wrapped in rain as it headed to the north east.
My chase team and I drove north afterwards and stopped at a gas station about 10min after having filmed the tornado. I was filming the hail underneath the gas station awning at the 24/7 store at the southern edge of Wakeeny when a sudden burst of wind nearly knocked me over. The wind quickly reversed directions and I (like an idiot) stopped filming. Then we heard this incredible roar as a tornado (most likely a final multiple vortice) tore apart an airplane hanger 200 yards to our South. After some panic and yelling, we ran into the restaurant connected to the gas station to take shelter. I was the one that yelled "Tornado!" and before you know it my chase team and everyone in the restaurant crowded into a walk-in freezer. The winds roared outside, the power flickered out and children were screaming and crying. Needless to say, I was terrified beyond belief.
It was over very quickly and I resumed filming after I had regained some composure. The whole experience was terrifying and yet amazing, and I was so taken aback that I shook uncontrollably for a full hour after the danger had passed.
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StormChaserMax uploaded a new video
(1 year ago)
Two large floating bridges have been constructed across the lake. They a...
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Two large floating bridges have been constructed across the lake. They act as barriers to the developing waves and prevent them from reaching the heights they once did, but strong winds can still stir up waves big enough to capsize small boats.
On the day this was filmed, April 2, 1010 - the winds were no stronger than 35mph on land, and probably no more than 40 - 45mph over the open water. Though not unusually intense, the winds were still able to stir up waves that probably reached 4ft in the middle of the lake.
Larger lakes, such as the American Great Lakes or Lake Baikal in Russia, regularly produce wave heights over 25ft, and hurricane force wind storms over Lake Superior have produced individual waves over 40ft high.
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StormChaserMax uploaded a new video
(1 year ago)
There were quite a few high wind events in Kawaihae in the month of Marc...
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There were quite a few high wind events in Kawaihae in the month of March, but the windstorm during the afternoon and evening or March 30 was the strongest.
The winds picked up around 2pm, as they often do, and went from near calm to 50mph gusts in less than five minutes. By 5pm the winds were gusting up to 60mph. At this point I left my neighborhood to film the winds in other areas. I was surprised to see that the winds were completely calm about two miles downwind of my house in Kawaihae, and they were gusting to only 20mph or so just a quarter mile up hill from my house. After sunset the winds probably gusted over 70mph, and some damage occurred, including a window broken from flying debris.
My house regularly experiences winds over 50mph, but this was the first time, apart from a windstorm in 1990, where there was any damage.
A wind gust of 71mph was recorded on the island of Maui.
The following morning around sunrise the winds were completely calm. By 9am they were again gusting to nearly 60mph.
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Mike
Pretty cool videos!