Upcoming Hurricanes!!!!

With the hurricane season in full swing, I keep my eye on the tropics. I am under a contract with a worldwide media company to take them into the eye of two landfalling hurricanes anywhere in the world this fall! Tropical Depression 8, east of the Lessor Antillies, will most likely intensify into a significant hurricane over the coming next week to 10 days. I will be heading out with the film crew should this continue to become a reality. Whether it makes landfall in Puerto Rico, Jamaica or the US, I will be there.

Hurricane chasing is quite different than tornado chasing, as you put yourself INTO the path of the eye and eye wall. It is quite an experience getting pummeled with 125-200 MPH winds for hours at a time. You can literally watch the world coming apart. The sounds in a major hurricane are quite interesting with the constant roar of the winds, sounds of trees cracking and falling, glass breaking and metal getting ripped to pieces.

Keep tuned into KMGH for my upcoming adventures should this hurricane become a large one!

Roger Hill

Update, Sept 12

Things got pretty wild for me last week, on September 6th. I chased in south central Nebraska and intercepted 3 supercell storms. The first one had a nice wall cloud, but became outflow dominant quickly.

The second storm was quite explosive. It developed respectable mid level rotation, and also had a rather large, but elongated wall cloud. It did produce ping pong ball sized hail near Wilcox, Nebraska.

The third cell was the storm of the day. I was a tornado warned classic supercell with a 40 mile long inflow band, massive, rotating wall cloud and a cone funnel that extended halfway to the ground. This storm, structure wise, was probably the prettiest all year long! The electrification was second to none with constant intercloud and cloud to ground lightning strikes every half to one second! It also produced baseball sized hail northwest of Franklin, Nebraska.

Quite a fun chase!

Roger Hill