By way of Metafilter comes some amazing footage of tornadoes that touched down May 12th near Attica, Kansas (Note: 27MB MPEG download). Scott McPartland is the photographer.
I’d like to chase storms around here, using all the necessary tools and training from the National Weather Service. We don’t have any storm chasers in the area, though the NWS’s SkyWarn program does train amateur radio operators in storm spotting.
Storm chasers around here will spend most of their time being bored, since this isn’t the tornado hotbed that Kansas-Texas-Oklahoma area is. Still, it’d be thrilling to get my own footage like this.
And, come on! It’s only wind, right? 🙂
Update: I put a local link for the tornado video, via FreeCache.
Did you save a copy of that video? It appears to be gone now. 🙁
I updated the link to point to a local copy, which I’m serving out via FreeCache.