Thursday, June 18, 2009

PHOTOS/VIDEO: LARGE HAIL IN YUMA COUNTY, COLORADO.



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I chased with my brother Eric Carlson and Dann Cianca the other day and drove into some incredible hail up to the size of 4.00"!!! I had never seen so many baseballs fall from the sky, they were bouncing in the field to our left and thats when I heard them hit and turned around.

MC.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

NEW WEBSITE - MICHAELCARLSONPHOTO.COM

I just finished all the coding for my redesigned website, Hope everyone likes it!

NEW SITE

MC.

Monday, June 15, 2009

PHOTOS/VIDEO: TORNADO WARNED STORM SOUTH OF LIMON



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Just another tornado warned storm with no tornado. Chased with Dann Cianca and Skinner.

MC.

Sunday, June 14, 2009

PHOTOS/VIDEO: Occluded Mesocyclone near Cheyenne Wyoming.



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Chased with Dann Cianca and Tracy Emerson we made it all the way up to La Grange but then came back to CO and manged to score a nice Mesocyclone along I-80.

MC.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

PHOTOS/VIDEO: SUPERCELL IN SOUTHERN KANSAS AND HAIL IN COLORADO



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I also added a video and one photo from the chase we did down in southern Kansas.


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I went out and chased the tornadic supercell the moved through Greeley Colo. Only managed small hail and high winds no tornadoes.

MC.

Monday, June 08, 2009

PHOTOS/VIDEO: Large Hail and Possible Tornado in MO.



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Only had time to edit one photo this morning and the video more photos from yesterday's chase up in NE and MO.

MC

Saturday, June 06, 2009

PHOTOS/VIDEO: LA GRANGE WYOMING TORNADO



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I chased out in eastern Wyoming yesterday and got on the amazing supercell west of La Grange WY. I witnessed the large and very powerful tornado that mostly everyone saw. This chase just made my year! Thanks to Mike O'Keeffe for nowcasting!

MC

Thursday, June 04, 2009

PHOTOS/VIDEO: High Based Boundary Thunderstorms in Eastern Colorado



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I chased by myself today and got on the storms that fired off the Palmer Divide the moved east on the two temperature boundaries. I got small to quarter size hail and some really nice structure shots. Over all a fun back yard chase and gearing up to go out again.

MC

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

PHOTOS/VIDEO: Severe Weather in Western Nebraska & Kansas



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I chased with Eric Haave a Metro student who is studying meteorology. We targeted McCook NE but once we noticed storms going up to the north we blasted up there and intercepted three separate supercells. We then moved south along the out flow boundary as storms initiated along it. This was when we noticed the storms in Kansas rooting to the boundary and we raced south to intercept but then realized the storm we had left re-intensified. We then moved back to the north and watched an amazing lightning show. All in all one of the top chases thus far with a good friend!

MC.