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r W a r r i o r . N e t May 7th, 2009, Summer Thunderstorm |
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| On this day, myself and a friend were driving out to Wallops Island, Virginia (far eastern VA) to cover the NASA launch at the facility there. On the way there, a pretty stought storm forumed and we watched it, and luckily enough had time to do a little chasing. At one point (see the first photo below) we observed a rotating wall cloud and thought we could possibly even see a funnel or tornado. It looked as though the rotation was over water, but we still attempted to call in the report, but unfortunately the cell coverage in that area was very poor. Interestingly enough, as you can see the storm reports map below, no significant reports were made with this storm. That may have been in large part due to the very low population in this area of eastern Maryland and Viriginia. I also wish I had my zoom lens with this storm as I could have seen more detail in photo no.1 After the storm we continued on to Wallops Island were the NASA rocket launch was canceled....due to weather (surprise, surprise).
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LOCAL CHASE LOGS: June 20, 1989* Aug. 9, 1997 Jan 8, 1999 Sept. 9, 2001 Oct.22, 2001 Aug. 26, 2003 May 9, 2004 Jul. 14, 2004 March 16, 2005 April 8, 2005 June 4th, 2008 June 7th, 2008 June 10th, 2008 Nov. 15th, 2008 May 28th, 2009 May 29th, 2009 July 26th, 2009 *Pictures only. Winter logs have moved into The Winter Weather section (link above) |
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