Summary
Page 2006
Summary
Page 2006
Richard Thies
Ferguson, Missouri
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FEATURES SEEN |
PICTURES |
| March 8 | Northwest
Missouri |
778 |
Brian Stertz, Ryan Thies |
Slight Risk |
Non-Severe Storms |
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| March 12 |
Missouri |
1176 |
Brian Stertz, Ryan
Thies |
High Risk |
Large Hail, 2 Night Time Tornadoes |
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| March
30 |
Southern Kansas |
2825 |
Brian
Stertz, Ryan Thies |
Slight
Risk |
Large Hail Rotating Wall Cloud |
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| April 1 |
Western Oklahoma, Texas Panhandle |
Moderate Risk |
Night Supercell Wall Cloud |
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| April
2 |
Northeast Missouri, West Illinois |
Moderate Risk |
Severe Storms 1.50" Hail |
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| April 16 |
Central Illinois Southern Illinois |
452 |
Ryan Thies |
Moderate Risk |
Multiple Supercells 5 Rotating Wall Clouds 1 Tornado |
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| April 23 |
Central Kansas |
1210 |
Brian Stertz, Ryan
Thies |
Slight Risk |
!.50" Hail, Rotating Wall Cloud |
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| April 30 |
Southern Illinois |
280 |
Kevin Kohler, Ryan Thies |
Slight
Risk |
Squall Line |
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| June 10 |
Eastern Missouri |
85 |
Melissa Thies, Ryan Thies |
Slight
Risk |
Squall Line |
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| July 19 |
Eastern Missouri Southwestern Illinois |
120 |
Ryan Thies |
NO
RISK |
Squall Line, 90mph Damaging Winds |
NO PICTURES TAKEN |
| July 21 |
Eastern Missouri Southwestern Illinois |
160 |
Sally Thies, Melissa
Thies, Kyle Thies |
Moderate Risk |
Squall Line, Damaging Winds |
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| September 16 |
Southeastern South Dakota |
1821 |
Brian Stertz, Ryan Thies |
Moderate Risk |
Small Hail, 2 Tornadoes |
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| September 22 |
Southeastern Missouri |
125 |
Ryan Thies |
Moderate Risk |
Small Hail, Supercell |
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| DATE |
LOG |
| March 8,
2006 |
My son, Ryan and I picked up Brian Stertz
and headed up to Platte City as our waiting point. The plan, to
play the convection close to the Low coming out of Kansas. As things
fired, we followed the first three cells that fired. The first one
shot northeast over the warm front and died in the cold air. We followed
the next two cells which showed potential but never really got going.
Brian feared they had taken off before the wave of enery really
got to them. So basically we sat in the northern end of the tornado
watch box all day and never saw a severe storm.
Severe Wx Observed: None
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| March 12, 2006 |
Ryan and I again met Brian for another day of chasing. This
would prove to be a frustrating day. We headed out of the Kansas
City Metro to meet the first round of storms, but because of poor road choices,
had the storms fly right by us. Then got onto a tornadic cell in
Sedalia, MO, but got caught on the north end of the storm and cracked the
windshiel with larger than golfball hail. Then a hasty trip east on
I-70 chasing storms back toward St. Louis with no luck. Giving up,
we headed back to KC to drop Brian off. Surprise! Storms that
refired were producing tornados right along the highway.
Daytime Severe Wx Observed:Rotating Wall Cloud 1 N-NE Sugar Creek (Jackson/Clay Co. MO) Golfball to Baseball size hail in/east of Sedalia (Pettis Co. MO) Golfball size hail west/in Columbia MO (Boone Co. MO) Quarter size hail south of Mexico (Audrain Co. MO) 
Nighttime Severe Wx Observed: (2) tornadoes southeast of Marshall & near Arrow Rock MO (Saline Co. MO) 
(Last Photo Courtesy of Brian Stertz) Unconfirmed large tornado between Longwood and Pilot Grove (Pettis/Cooper Co. MO) |
| March 30, 2006 |
Ryan and I got out for a 4 day chase event.
We met Brian Stertz and headed for Southern Kansas.
Severe Wx Observed:Golf Ball Size Hail, Rotating Wall Cloud (Southern KS) 
March 31, 2006 : Bust |
| April 01, 2006 |
After a day with no chase, Brian, Ryan and I
headed for Western OK and the Texas Panhandle. Severe weather was late
to develop and shot north from OK into KS leaving us behind..
Severe Wx Observed:Rotating Wall Cloud at Sunset (Northwestern OK-Southern KS)
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| April 02, 2006 |
A long drive from Southern Kansas to Northeastern
Missouri for the chase today. Watched the storms develop on the
Missouri side of the Mississippi River and then crossed the river into
Illinois and let them fly by us. Only observed severe hail. We
did observe 3 tornado damage paths from the March 12, 2006 episode.
Severe Wx Observed: Quarter to Ping Pong
Ball size Hail (Pike, Co. IL)
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| April 16, 2006 |
An Easter Sunday chase was in order for today.
Even though Brian Stertz was in town today, he was unable to pull
himself out of his Easter family obligations to chase with Ryan and I. It
was a day of positioning twice. The original setup was in Central
Illinois and then shifted southward as the day went on. There were
plenty of rotating wall clouds (1,2,3....) to choose today. We finally
got a brief tornado (4) near Oblong, Illinois..
Severe Wx Observed: 1 Tornado,
5 rotating Wall Clouds
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| April 23, 2006 |
Ryan and I met Brian for a Kansas chase today.
Unfortunately, the storms did not want to cooperate until right
at sunset. We did manage to see the best rotating storm (1) of the
day and then took cover after dark in hopes of seeing large hail (2). We
also missed the largest hail that fell from the storm.
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| April 30, 2006 |
Ryan and I met Kevin Kohler as some storms
crossed the Mississippi River over into Illinois. We had hoped for
supercell development, but the storms immediately lined out and no severe
weather was seen by us. Only small hail.
Severe Wx Observed: None
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| June 10, 2006 |
A quick trip out to meet
in-coming severe storms with my daughter Melissa and Ryan. Nothing
exciting as the storms weakened into a squall line. Great lightning
show to end the day. Severe Wx Observed: None
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| July 19, 2006 |
Ryan and I at the last
minute decided to follow and overtake a storm that busted through St.
Louis. This storm had 70-90mph NE winds along with some inbedded
tornado warnings. The major extent of this storm was the wind damage
that downed trees onto personal property and power lines. Severe Wx Observed: Wind (80+mph)
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| July 21, 2006 |
My wife Sally and son
Kyle were the unlikely occupants as our trip out for lunch turned into a
chase that took us all the way to Carlyle Lake in Illinois. As with
the storm 2 days before, this storm again had high winds and tornado warnings
that aggravated the already bad situation around the area. More damage
occured from this storm due to the high winds out of the NW this time. Severe Wx Observed: Wind (70+mph)
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| September 16, 2006 |
Ryan and I met Brian
again today and moved near our target area of the IA, NE, SD intersection.
The storms developed in the early afternoon and Brian had us on
top of the cell of the day as it began to tornado. We watched the
full cycle of the 20 minute long tornado (1-5). Then saw a second
tornado (6) destroy a farm stead. Best chase of the year. Severe Wx Observed: 2 Tornadoes (F2) (F1)
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| September 22, 2006 |
Ryan and I headed out
for what would be the failure chase of the year. After heading in
the wrong direction, we scrambled back through the backroads to get us back
to the proper area for the approaching cells. Upon hitting I-44, I
made the poor decision to track west to the cell and try to position from
there. That put me in the hail and bad road options. The chase
quickly came to an end when the car hydroplaned off of the road and got totalled
in a stand of trees. Severe Wx Observed: Golfball Hail
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