Ilinois Tornado Chase 8-19-09

Did I get one? It was a difficult day chasing as I got caught by the storms I thought too far north. Most of the tornadic activity was a little further south but heading northeast. I did not want to cut through the core and drive out into a tornado so I turned back and may have caught a brief one in Northern Lasalle county. This storm moved NE into Dekalb and Kane counties where a tornado was reported in Kane county at Rt47 and Burlington rd. I was photographing rainbows about 5 miles west of there at the time. I never saw it.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Tornado
• chase
• Illinois
• wind
• rain
• storm
• funnel
• wall
• cloud
• twister
• August
• 19
• 2009
• central
• northern
• peoria
• marshall
• lasalle
• couty

[MrTORN80]

do you live around here? you go out to the plains and chase?

[momotous]

I'm in Huskie territory, if you know where that is.

[MrTORN80]

caught the EF-3 tornado near Elkhart, IL this day. was near springfield and decided to go north to what ended up being a 24 mile long track tornado. damage was insane to a house in the area.

[momotous]

I was north of there, near peoria. I thought about heading south but would have had to cut through the core, not my favorite thing to do. That's what I did in the 97 video and have avoided it since if at all possible

[LuvsTstormTapes]

Aaahhh..I was able to locate this real such treasure-trove of such a magnificent video you made here, my good YouTube Tstorm-video bud.... excellent in all parts...love your subtitles....the NOAAweather-radio..and the ''car-rides'' thru the picturesqued countryside..... and of course...the possible rain-wrapped tornado at the end. So good to see such mouthwatering videos just like this one~~!!!

[momotous]

I'm trying to get better at the presentation.

[LuvsTstormTapes]

Again, I had to RE-see this awesome video, ''Momotous''...I really love the way you've bolted your camcorder right on your chase-vehicle's rear-view mirror...in such a way the lovely ''rides'' were so nice and smooth.... BTW..get this: 8/19/09...the day of this severe weather outbreak..marked 10 years to the day, 8/19/99---I got this awesome nighttimed lightning/loud thunder copied- video from Odessa/Midland TX from another ''Tstorm video bud''....awesome videos from there/then too!

[momotous]

The storms that day did not seem to go tornadic until about the I39/55 corridor to my knowledge.

[momotous]

better almost than did.

[MIDSCAR1]

I have my video up now so you can see what we were running into. It definably got a bit sticky there for a while with my friend being inexperienced on navigation. That's been fixed though :-)