May 26 - May 26 Chase Trip!

This past six days will certainly go down as one of the most exciting chase trips we ever had. The TWISTEX crew and NGC saw collectively over 20 tornadoes in west central Kansas. We Carlson's documented 10 of them. That brings my lifetime total up to 95 tornadoes with the century mark well within reach this season. Michael and Eric are well into the double digits of 30-40 tornadoes!

Highlights of this trip were two tornadoes on the ground at the same time. Two wedge tornadoes. Two developing tornadoes intercepted at the ground swirl. Three total flights of the TWISTEX plane. One with the test dropsonde recording video and two aerial survey's of the Quinter, KS wedge tornado.

We had an incredible time with the project and look forward to getting out again soon. Maybe as early as Thurs/Fri as models are hinting at.