June 2007 News Archive

Exciting Chase on June 21st
The Severe Studios Chasers were in the field on June 21st. The chase began early in the morning and continued until early the next morning (almost a 24 hour chase). Kory Hartman chased a large, long lived supercell that formed near Gettysburg, SD at around 7:00 AM. As the storm moved southeast in a three hour time frame, it produced multiple funnels, softball sized hail near White Lake, SD, high winds, and torrential rain. The supercell finally weakened in Hutchinson County, SD. Hartman provided live video and reports to Keloland TV in Sioux Falls, SD.

Later that afternoon, chasers Kory Hartman and Kenny Allen headed to north central Nebraska. The chase team intercepted a large supercell near the Atkinson, NE area. The cell was slow moving, but produced a continuous wall cloud for over an hour. Multiple funnels were observed, large hail, and lots of cloud to cloud and cloud to ground lightning. While the storm attempted to become tornadic, there was no confirmed tornado touchdown.

For more details, view the chase blog and video clips from the June 21st, 2007 chase.

SevereStudios.com Viewed Around The World
A record 1,117 unique visitors (IP addresses) were recorded on the SevereStudios.com server on June 21. People from around the world, including the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Italy, Brazil, Norway, and New Zealand, logged on and viewed our site. This is the largest number of visitors we have ever had in one day.

We want to thank you to everyone for taking time to view our site, our Live ChaseCam feed, and for helping to make the site what it is today. A record number of people were able to view our live ChaseCam feed, as we were able to upgrade the server bandwidth to unlimited for the month of June since we had so many generous donations.

We hope you will come back and view future chases and also help us promote severe weather awareness throughout the country and world.