August 19th 2009 storm chase (Tornado confirmed)

This day turned out much better than I had expected. My friend, who had only been on one other chase before, was the navigator this time. This inexperience made it where we didn't see the tornado until we watched it when we got home. There were some mistakes on my part too. Still a very good chase, especially for only a slight risk being out and PLENTY of lessons learned on all our parts. The tornado did damage on the northeast side of Lake Springfield, which I will have the video up for later. Enjoy!

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[purplepixiechic]

i was in town when this tornado happened,,,,god it scared me.....i heard it and ran to the basment with my mother and dogs and the lights went off,my dad was actually driving when it happened and he said he wasnt to far off from it

[MIDSCAR1]

@purplepixiechic Glad you took shelter...the storms that day weren't to be messed around with! There were 6 long track tornadoes in central IL this day, one of them being this one

[Sgtellzo]

what happened to the video of you and your mate, looking at the damage of the tornado?

[MIDSCAR1]

That actually is a good question. Must have got removed somehow! I'll see what happened and get it put back up

[Sgtellzo]

also you know the person over the radio that keeps talking about tornados in the following counties is that an automated service or is someone reading it of a big list?

[MIDSCAR1]

@stormtracker05 Couldn't drive straight...we were on the west side of Lake Springfield (probably our saving grace). Had the lake not been there...we probably would have driven into the tornado. The tornado is confirmed by the way...EF1 with 110mph winds about 100 yards wide

[MIDSCAR1]

@KevinZGreen It isn't illegal. What makes you think that? Cops like the help believe it or not until more police arrive at the scene

[MIDSCAR1]

@KevinZGreen Yes I admitted it and i'm pretty sure I said after this chase i saw I needed to change when I used them. It's all a learning experience and this chase was 1 of them

[KevinZGreen]

And you admit that you are confusing people. You admit your lights are confusing people who are idiots? What kind of person admit they want to confuse idiots?

[KevinZGreen]

Which is pretty much illegal...