PWX 2009 A Tale of Two Seasons

The next in the line of PWX 20XX storm chasing DVDs, PWX 2009; A Tale of Two Seasons features the beautiful, and the very ugly sides of storm chasing in the central United States.  2008 featured one of my most successful two week periods in the end of May and first week of June including the western Kansas events on May 22/23, culminating with the June 7th wedge-fest in northeastern Illinois. I came out of the gate sprinting in 2008 and fell flat on my face in 2009. A very difficult year for storm chasing which did still prove fruitful to some was unrelenting on my end. If I wasn't being hosed by mother nature, it was such inconveniences as a totaled car in a construction zone. PWX 2009 is packed full of 2008 action, and 2009 pain (and I suppose a few nice storms as well!).

*Warning: Contains Adult Language*
While you can probably count the amount of times strong language is used on one hand, I feel obligated to make it known ahead of time that I did not edit out any strong language used in intense situations.

Every storm chaser has a video "style" that works best for them. My personal style happens to be more along the "scientific video" type, with video being tripoded whenever possible with minimal yelling (at least from myself) to allow the natural sounds of the storm to dominate the video.

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	Music Intro
	May 22 2008 - Western Kansas Four tornadoes from various supercells in western Kansas. Three of them at close range, including almost being sideswiped by the WaKeeney tornado near sunset.
	May 23 2008 - Western Kansas Several low contrast tornadoes followed by a plunge into the bears cage of a violent supercell, climaxing with near 100 mph winds snapping and uprooting trees next to my car.
	June 3 2008 - Manchester, IL Beautiful mini-supercell produces a beautiful cone tornado that touches up and down.
	June 7 2008 - Northeast Illinois (Chicago Suburbs) This day makes the DVD. On a day when most were in Iowa, I get lucky and bag 4 separate wedge tornadoes that affect the southern suburbs of Chicago.
	March 23 2009 - Central Kansas Moisture starved supercells fail to produce tornadoes, but provide a little to look at structure wise.
	May 13 2009 - Northeast Missouri I hang back too far and miss the action, but get a rain obscured distant look at a tornado near Edina, and some condensation fingers near sunset.
	May 15 2009 - Central Illinois This day should have been huge, but our supercell rode on the cold side of the warm front too long and failed to produce a tornado.
	May 25 2009 - Southwest Illinois Supercell forms in the remnants of a tropical low and gains decent structure. However, too many nearby storms constantly reset the storm and prevent tornadoes. (we're getting a theme here...)
	May 29 2009 - Eastern Illinois Marginal day produces a pretty mini-supercell at sunset near home.
	May 30 2009 - Southeast Illinois High based supercell that produces copious amounts of hail into Indiana.
	June 1 2009 - Southeast Iowa High cape / low shear day bombs as I hit a pothole and bend my rim blowing a tire and doing $600 in damage to my car while attempting to catch supercells close to home, where I should have stayed.
	June 7 2009 - Northeast Kansas / Northwest Missouri Two beautiful supercells that every other storm chaser in America chased. Perfect in every year, aside from the lack of tornadoes.
	June 18 2009 - The Interstate Early morning bow echo starts the day right, but a sleepy driver stops me dead in my tracks attempting to chase a moderate risk in Iowa later.
	June 19 2009 - Eastern Illinois / Western Indiana Sprinting out the door of the hospital following a post-accident check up, I catch a supercell exploding over town. Storm again comes ever so close, but does not produce a tornado.
	August 19 2009 - Rochester, Illinois Probably the best tornado intercept of 2009, and I couldn't see the darn thing. Watch a tornado develop and become totally wrapped in rain as it chases me down the highway.
	The Last Two Years in Photos Just a 3 minute slide show featuring some of my favorite photos from 2008/2009.