Storm Chase Tour - Sept & Oct 98.
PART
1 - Despair
as the death ridge from hell kicks in in.
No storms but some interesting insights and photos of chasing
in Australia.
PART
2 - Some action at last, but bad timing yet again.
We got three storm days this week, but a week later at
least three supercells, one confirmed tornado and several other unconfirmed
tornadoes develop in the area.
HOW THE
CHASE CAME ABOUT
The chase logs above are of what we believe to be Australia's
first organised group chase. It was made possible by Jimmy Deguara who
did the hard work of organising the tour and rounding up interest. Ideally
we would have chased in November, but due to University and school commitments
( Jimmy is a teacher ) we had to chase in the September - October school
holiday break. The chase was always a gamble, but during the first week
a common, but long lived event in the form of a persistent high pressure
ridge shut down all activity. We did get action in the second week, but
again were cruelly dealt with when the week after we returned supercells
and tornadoes occurred.
A report from James Chambers in regard to the Brisbane supercell
and tornado can be found here.
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