Welcome to my 2004 Storm Chase Log!!!
(or storm observation Page)

This page is under construction. I hope to have it complete with pictures and possibly videos before chases begin in 2005...so check back soon...
 

    Driver: Jake Stacken
    Location: Central Oklahoma
    Duration: about 1.5 hours
    Significant Events:  
        high winds
        heavy rain

 

 

    Driver: Bob Fritchie
    Location: Western Oklahoma
    Miles traveled:
    Duration: about 16.5 hours
    Significant Events:
        2 main supercells
        amazingly beautiful storm structure
        1 tornado observed
        2 other funnels observed
        3 airborne cars on an amazing dirt road
        8 alarm fire
        lightning pictures north of Kingfisher, OK
        transected cold-front on the way home
        observed hundreds of frogs/toads on roadways after rainfall
 
 
 

   
    Driver: Bob Fritchie
    Location: Southeastern Oklahoma
    Miles Traveled:
    Duration:
    Significant Events:
        multiple funnels
        quarter sized hail
 
   

 

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    Driver: Bob Fritchie
    Location: south-central Kansas
    Distance traveled:
    Duration: ~ 16.5 hours
    Significant Events:
        wind farm in north-western Oklahoma
        watched initiation at tripple-point for ~1 hour
        extremely large hail (~softball)
        9 tornados observed
        amazingly frequent lightning
        scary tornados and funnels backlit by lightning
        helped get 1 car out of mud (very comical)
        transected mesoscale boundaries several times

 


    Driver:
    Location: central Oklahoma
    Distance traveled: ~82 miles
    Duration: ~
    Significant Events:
        2 tornados observed
 

 


    Driver: Bob Fritchie
    Location: south-central Kansas
    Distance traveled:
    Duration: ~14.5 hours
    Significant Events:
        saved turtle in road
        watched initiation near dryline
        witnessed mating cows (not pretty)
        soft hail
        pretty optical phenomena
        long lived, cyclic supercell
        Argonia wedge
        F3 wedge in Conway Springs, KS
        10 tornados observed
        Bob got a dent in his car from getting stuck in the mud
 
 

 


    Driver: Bob Fritchie
    Location: central Oklahoma
    Distance traveled:
    Duration: ~4 hours
    Significant Events:
        awesome police officer guided us to highway at very high speeds
 
 

 


 

Last Updated: 2005 March 19