4/29/09 REPORTS: TX/KS

[sdienst]

Started the day off near Ralls, TX with Kiel Ortega. Kept an eye on the early convection but mainly focusing on the numerous outflow boundaries north of there. Ended up getting on the numerous storms north from Floydada to Childress area. We watched the Cedar Hill storm produce at least two stout tornadoes from a distance before it became outflow dominant.

[Jason A.C. Brock]

Started the day off headed for Childress but saw the storms fire NW of Abiliene and bit on the Throckmorton storm. Had a nice collar look to it with some broad rotation but began to become very outflowish. Decided to blast North and Try to get back toward Childress before dark but got a call a family member was ill so I headed back to Wichita Falls. Not sure I would have arrived for the Tornadoes Near Paducah but would have been close. Im sure I missed some good structure as well. Pics of Throckmorton storm will be at http://www.holytornado.com later.

[edward oneal]

Got off work at 5 went home for a bite to eat and to check the radar, storms near Garden City did not look that great at the time. But a tornado watch had been issued so maybe they could do something. As I was driving I could see the storm near Garden had split. One left mover and one that seemed to become stationary near Garden, it was high based but looked like it was starting to rotate. In a very short time a wall cloud formed and funnels started reaching for the ground. Then a brief multi-vortex tornado touched down, luckily for Garden the cell had turned south at this time. I followed it South until sunset. The circulation got rain wrapped and it was hard to tell how many tornadoes it spawned. I saw two in the rain for sure. Here are a few pictures.

[Wesley Luginbyhl]

Crazy day. Jumped on the storms that fired west of Plainview. Saw atleast 100 gustnadoes (no exaggeration) around Plainview and got hit by one as the storm was dominated by outflow. I got tired of watching outflow so I was going to go to one of the slower moving eastern storms. As I traveled down 207 a funnel passed over head. After I got east of the storm I noticed a large funnel extending down from the upper part of the storm while the lower part of the updraft was getting wrapped around it. Within minutes I was watching a large tornado moving toward the highway that was lined with chasers. I was pretty sure somebody was going get tossed into the field for sure. After it crossed the highway it moved across the field to my south where I could hear it. Once I began to move east thats when I saw the second tornado coming down on the highway. It was incredible chase. Definitely got my best pictures to date. In the second picture, I believe the 2 headlights down there are David and Ben. No need for them to zoom in.

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[Jay McCoy]

Got on the Plainview storm when it was still west of I-27 near Kress. At that time it was high bas3ed and inflow winds were nonexistant. After it moved past I-27 and interacted with that boundary the inflow winds kicked up to 30+ and the storm went from outflow with gustnadoes everywhere to huge wallcloud and baseball hail in like 10 minutes. Worked it all the way to Cedar Hill and filmed the entire tornado and its sister looking back west and then SW along hwy 97. Unfortunately the highway then turns NE which meant core or take a mud road south. I opted to let the tornado pass west and then south of me and then backtrack west through the wraparound then south but lost the storm. From my direction it was very dark and dirty and really kicked up a huge dirt plume as it tried to rope out. The sister tornado touched down numerous times but never really got going that well. Passed Reed and David D right before it dropped who decided to hang back and film it from the west looking east. I understand David got some amazing footage. Cant wait to see it.

[Verne Carlson]

http://www.stormchaserco.com/20090430_003300_gustnado1.jpg

Gustnado #1 00:33z

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Landspout #1 00:40z

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Gustnado #2 00:45z

Got off work at lunch and shot out to Burlington, CO where I thought there was an outside chance of a lamdspout. The Jim Reed foot chase day of last year was in my mind. I liked the forecast capes on the RUC up into the surface low.

With Michael nowcasting for me I jumped on the rapidly developing cells around Leoti, KS and almost called it a day when the cell near Garden City looked like it was worth a check.

On arriving from the west side I was greeted with marbles, then golfballs and then a few near baseball hailstones and 4" drifting! I positioned myself out of the hail and on the southeast side of the meso and saw my first dusty spinup out on the forward RFD push.

While following this gustnado I observed off to the west a nice laminar landspout with translucent tube fully connected to the ground. Out from this spout a small gustnado spun out rapidly ahead of it.

Continuing south out ahead of the meso an RFD push again turned into the huge dusty gustnado that Michael posted in the NOW thread. This weakend a bit and spun out more little gustnadoes. I decided to drive right through the dying large gustnado and got sprayed by straw and dirt!

The cell splitting and mergers or lack of mergers after that were something I can't wait to review on radar!

>> Report Here << (http://stormchaserco.blogspot.com/2009/04/got-off-work-at-lunch-and-shot-out-to.html)

[Ben Holcomb]

David Drummond and I scored multiple tubes on the storm northwest of Floydada, TX. We got some insane footage that we can't post just yet, but it's amazing. Here's a screencap.

http://www.benholcomb.com/files/20090429_Tornado.jpg

I'll get more pics and video posted along with a recap at my website (http://www.benholcomb.com) tomorrow, assuming we're not bagging more in Oklahoma tomorrow!

[brandongreen]

i didnt get to catch any tornadoes. i wound up getting stuck in a ditch and had to wait it out before someone could pull me out. hail hurts when it hits your ears. these were taken near quitaque. the telephone poles were near cedar hill.

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[Jason Boggs]

Congrats to the ones who bagged a nader today. Jay, you're gonna pay for this one! LOL

Anyway, got on the storm that initiated SW of Tulia. Got in position and saw that it was right turning fast! Made my way down near South Plains when I saw a wall cloud form very fast. It organized very quickly, but it dissipated just as quickly. Tracked my way down a few miles north of Floydada and sat and watched it a while. I saw the rotation transfer to the NE in the precip core. Visibility was terrible due to rain and dust. I knew that the wall cloud was rotating, but I wasn't sure about a tornado. I did a phoner with the station I chase for and said there may very well be a tornado on the ground. A few minutes later a Floydada police officer drove up and handed me his radio! I was like, ok. He had his spotters confirming a tornado on the ground along with downed power poles near Cedar Hill. I relayed this into the station. I listened to his spotter for a while and gathered more information. I showed the officer the radar and he thanked me and left. He was a very nice guy. Kudos to the Floydada police department! Anyway, to make a long story short, no tornadoes for me today. I saw some great structure though, so it was well worth it. I guess my target area forecast for Matador played out pretty well, for once at least! Now to the photos:

LOOKING NORTHWEST JUST EAST OF FLOYDADA
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LOOKING EAST OUT OF MATADOR
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ANOTHER SHOT LOOKING EAST OUT OF MATADOR
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MAMMATUS NEAR MATADOR
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CRISP UPDRAFTS
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[Matt Chatelain]

Curtis McDonald, Ilya Neyman, Ryan Nulsen, and I started the day targeting the boundary west of Childress but left Norman a little too late as we missed the estelline tornado by 5 minutes. However the storm had an insane updraft, I was really great having the storms take advantage of such high CAPE, help create great structure! We chased some more supercells fire to the south of the original one near Matador, thats when us and several other chasers looked west and saw the Cedar Hill tornado (appeared 10-15 miles to the west), which appeared to be very stout. Here is a video still of the tornado which we observed for approx 7 mins. Finally made our way to that storm and chased it as it went outflow dominant. Got 60-70mph winds west of Paducah and had several large branches knoched down. Anyways, really enjoyable day overall, and looking forward to more high cape days.

[David Drummond]

We have a sort term media restriction until tomorrow afternoon but you can view some of the video on KCBD.com that Ben and I shot. They are supposed to be adding numerous clips that are in the new ingest queue right now that will be online there soon. I'll try to get some on Youtube tomorrow, but chasing may get in the way of that. We have 7 gigs of video from 3 cameras at very close range. This was the most incredible chase I ever had I think. Nothing but power poles were injured in the shooting of this tornado.

Great tornadoes, not taking lives or property, at close rang. Doesn't get better than that!

Some video here showing up already, scroll down just a little: http://www.kcbd.com/global/story.asp?s=10276457

[terra seright]

Headed down to Silverton, TX, in an attempt to intercept the storm that came from W of Plainview. Ended up in a bunch of farm land with the road I was on being the ONLY paved road. Watched the storm attempt several times to produce, and saw many downbursts. These were apparently pretty hefty bursts, as the debris/dust actually looked like it was flying back into the wall cloud.

Headed back to 207 and toward Quitaque, where we ran into a nice meso nearly sitting on the ground. When we got to Quitaque, the streets were empty, and the tornado sirens were blaring. Took the nearest road north, which went into Caprock Canyons State Park, and discovered that the road was flooded in many places. Turned around and headed back to town, looked up and there was a rotating wall right above us!! ACK! We went back out the way we came, and waited for the wall to pass over, then headed for Turkey, then on to Esteline, where we decided to go back to the Panhandle storm, rather than punching the huge core at Childress. I had not driven fast enough to get ahead of the massive storm that had formed and was headed toward Childress.

Meanwhile, there are multiple warnings going off south of Quitaque.

I didn't follow my instincts, and should have, as I would have caught something. Crap. I always doubt my gut instinct.

BUST......but I got some really cool shots anyway.

[David Hoadley]

Today was a big bust! Started from Big Spring and worked the first storm between Lamesa and Snyder. I then drove up to Aiken (east of Plainview) and watched the approaching cell make a brief wall cloud, which then wrapped in rain. NOAA Weather Radio then warned of a severe storm **east** of Floydada. Instead of turning onto County Hwy97 (bad decision but looked like a hail risk at the time), I charged down to US72/60 and turned east at 5:34PM CDT --thinking I would be just south of the base (My-Cast-radar out of range at that time). I watched an impressive, broad, lowering to the ENE against a dark background but could see no wall cloud or beaver tail. At 6:02PM, I turned north on State Hwy70 for a closer look. It appeared to be the same dominant lowering, I had followed since Floydada. The Cedar Hill tornadoes would begin 15-20 miles WNW of me, at about the time I reached a broad, bowl-shaped base 7 miles north of Matador. It rotated and tried to form but couldn’t (triggering another T warning). It continued weakly rotating NE of there toward Northfield, but that was it. Since the Cedar Hill warning was based on radar/observation (6:11PM; my notes) and was only 2 minutes before touchdown (6:13PM per SPC storm data); it apparently formed quickly. After Thursday’s activity, I'll start the long red-eye drive back to family obligations at home.

- - - David Hoadley

[Rocky Rascovich]

I originally was not going to chase this day as I thought the set up was too marginal to warrant a trip into the dreaded hinterlands of NW TX. but, with my friend Mark McGowen up visiting from Houston and with the cohersion of a couple of chasers who called me, Mark and I left and targeted Silverton, TX. where I thought the best interaction between one of the boundaries and what upper level support we had to be juxtaposed to initiate convection. Turns out, we were in the right place but managed to miss all the tornadoes. We were stuck in Quitaque as TOR warned cells grazed us to the south. I could have probably made it to see the tornadoes near Flomot, but probably would have paid the price with eating glass with the alleged baseballs that were reported just south of town. Flooding was another issue, with us chasing in the Honda Civic, I had to be extra careful in not getting marooned (or submerged).. another reason why I don't relish chasing in that part of the country.

I decided to haul back west to Silverton, then go south through South Plains to Floydada.. (missed the tor's around South Plains.. ). The highlight of the day was that we witnessed a very low and moderately rotating wall cloud NW of Matador somewhere around 1830 (time estimate). I really thought that was going to produce but could not quite reach it's magic. From then on, we were trying to avoid the ice machine near Paducah along with the 75mph+ winds occurring around there. As the evening progressed, we enjoyed the anvil crawlers that we videotaped north of Paducah. We later met up with Simon Brewer, his GF and a new chaser, Justin who we enjoyed dinner with in Childress before arriving back home at 0345 after a 694 mile chase. I think I'm ready for a tornado now that it's been 5 chases since the 2/10/09 event. A big thanks to Simon Brewer, Charles Edwards, Dave Ewoldt and Hank Baker for the nowcasting.

[Tony Laubach]

http://blog.tornadoeskick.com/

http://www.tornadoeskick.com/index.php/component/content/article/18-chase-season-2009/285-20090429.html - Log work ongoing, will mention here when complete!

1,110 miles in 25 straight hours lead to one of the most memorable chases of my career, and not just in terms of the tornadoes. The day will filled with amazing food, a destroyed camera, a two-mile tractor pull, deep mud, a blown transmission, 30 miles of swayed driving, four tornadoes, 1.5" hail, and a 7:00am Denver arrival time.

We intercepted the Cedar Hill tornatic storm in Plainview from Chubby's Mexican BBQ (an AMAZING place for food) and followed it through at least three cycles.

Cycle 1: Just north of Plainview, scuddy mess, HPish storm.

Cycle 2: Gustnado city east of Plainview, including a long-lived and fairly large gustnado.

Cycle 3: "Tornadoed Its Brains Out", the first a rope to out west, the second main cone/rope/needle tornado, the third its satellite to our immediate east, and the last being a rope a couple miles east of us as we buried ourselves in mud.

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The main show as it moves east.

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The satellite tornado to our immediate east with the larger tornado ongoing in front of us.

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The amazing rope out of the second tornado, best I had ever seen!

Special thanks to the farmer southeast of Cedar Hill who came out on his own will and dragged my car across two miles of mud back to pavement. The gentlemen saw us from his farm trying to get my car free from the mud and drove out on his tractor to help me. While the mud ventures cut our day short, he saved us from spending most of the night out in that field. None of us ever got his name, but I left him my card, but I offer a sincere thanks for showing that southern hospitality does indeed still exist!

[Bill Tabor]

Chased 2 separate storms in 2 different storm complexes this day:

I started this day near Stamford Tx and intercepted the supercell approaching from the southwest with GR3 showing rotation. Rotation area passed south of Stamford and then crossed between Avoka, and Leuders. In the meantime I hung out south of Avoka on a back road and watched as it approached. At one point extremely loud / close CG bolts were raining down nearby. Somehow I was in the target zone. As I shot video west a CG hit in the field in front of my about 150 yards away. It made me jump, and a big plume of dust and smoke shot up about 30 feet in the air. Amazing! I took this as a hint to back off to the south - which I did. I headed down near Leuders and allowed the rotation to pass a bit to my ENE as I tried to determine my next move. To the ENE a mile or so away and partly obscured by precip on the north side I saw what appeared to be a funnel - dark with the base also in a bit of precip. Couldn't verify a tornado but it looked intriguing. Followed east all the way to Lake Ray Hubbard / Breckenridge and realized my storm had turned to crap and was a sucker storm now. I corrected back west, and was lured by my brother and law to go check out if his ranch near Stamford got any rain. It appeared they got lots and needed it. Fields and creeks were flooded. Wasted a bit of time with this and grabbing a snack as storms began forming in the SE Tx panhandle about 90 miles away from my original position. Once again I had liked the Childress region and shot north from Aspermont up 83 toward Paducah. Tornado warnings / reports were coming from the storm as it was west of Matador and I knew I was likely missing out. As I headed north a wisp of moisture SW of Gutherie was neaded NW and appeared would merge with the Matador/Paducah tornadic cell. Determined that the merging cell had the best chance to tornado so I positioned myself between the two. I made it as far north as about 5 miles south of Paducah. Snapped some photos of the cell merger, and began to notice soon afterward the southern merging cell showing more rotation to my west and southwest. It began looking fairly earnest and as the area of rotation (Threatnet showing shear markers up to 126 or so) was just to my west I took FM 143 west about 2.5 to 3 miles. At this point it looked like the end of the world. It was literally the black abyss to my west and along the immediate road to my north (right side of vehicle headed west). The dark rainfree base region was overhead and to the south (left side) the sun was still out providing light. The fields nearby were red/orange lit by the intense weird sun angle / filter. I couldn't believe how dark the storm was. It was almost pure black and I have never seen one that dark and I have seen quite a few storms in my day. I felt like I was living on borrowed time. To the west and north I could see lowered areas. It appeared to be a wide wallcloud that was almost touching ground. At one point I had a funnel that didn't touch down almost due north. Precip and wind started and I realized the sky could literally 'fall' on me with giant hail and I would be smashed like a bug (been there...done that). The storm was also now left turning / strengthening and at the same time propagating further to the SW. I realized I had to get out of there while there was time as I still had to make it east a few miles to the N/S road. I busted east quickly and avoided the 'teeth'. Next I backed off to the south. From here many time I stopped photographed the storm and ran video looking for a tornado to touch down. There were numerous locals coming up parking and asking if it was ok to proceed through the storm to Pahducah. I thought that was kind of a silly question as it was tornado warned - had a history of producing tornadoes (before the merger) and likely had hail at least as large as baseballs. It was black as night to the north. Silly non-chasers. I told them to stay south of the storm. There was also a couple of guys from Pennsylvania that were down to help out Channel 11 I believe in Lubbock - turns out it was the same station Drummond worked for and I believe they knew him. They knew very little about storms but I proceeded to inform them and show them the radar. We hung out for awhile numerous times being chased further south as the storm continued to propagate / back build and turn right. Later - once dark, we got just south of Gutherie which had just received a tornado warning and we could hear the sirens running previously when we were north of Gutherie. Anyway most of the time to the north of town we had outflow. However just south of town for a time we experienced fairly intense inflow as the rotation on radar approached from our NW. Very light mist appeared and we could see a wallcloud. We backed off some more to the south and watched the wallcloud pass over Gutherie. I later logged it via Spotternetwork.

That was about it. Surprisingly out of these really incredible, exciting two storms I chased in two different areas I got 0 tubes! Amazing. Oh well...I had a great time. This day reminded me of why I chase. The amazing power of the storm, the dynamics, the surreal, unbelievable beauty, a bit of danger and intrigue and good fellowship with others fascinated by the storm and a chance to share it.

[Verne Carlson]

My video from Garden City, KS is now up >> HERE << (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsNNSfaIcxo)

[David Drummond]

Several videos available of these tornadoes on my YouTube Channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/DrylineMedia


A few video grabs from that incredible day:

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[Patrick Martin]

Chased southwest Kansas on Wednesday, with a target of Garden City KS. Left Denver at 11am via I-70. Stopped in Colby to fuel up and saw cells on radar going up near Scott City being severe warned. Dropped south on hwy 83 to check them out. Got a few pretty pics and some small hail west of Scott City. Noticed a new cell near Garden City and continued south on hwy 83. Played on a few county roads north of town, saw the cell split, and went with the right split. After moving east on hwy 400/50 and playing in some marble size hail, noticed rotation indicator near Holcomb, went to check it out. Found a wall cloud with rising motion, but had to retreat after marble hail turned to golf balls and baseballs. Got back to hwy 83 south, and punched the core to get in front of the cell. Stopped to chat with Verne Carlson, when he spotted a dusty gustnado/tornado in the field behind us.
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After being overtaken by the hail core (again) moved east and south and while en route saw the truncated translucent and then a dusty landspout. Pics are contrast enhanced to show.
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Made my way several miles to the south and east and stopped just west of the intersection of county roads 941 & 942 and captured multiple pictures of the amazing structure of this storm. My thanks to Chris Strahan for nowcast support throughout the day. This storm and chase far exceeded my expectations for the day.
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[nmjameswilson]

I headed out of Kansas City around noon after lunch with my son and targeted the Garden City area. As i got within an hour of Scott City i saw the Garden City cell and headed South to meet it. I saw nice structure and encountered marble sized hail just to the South of Garden City. Lucky i was not about one mile more to the West where golfball and above hail fell. I started filming the below video as i drove to get a better view. I ended up on a road that looped back to town which killed the chase for a moment. I wrapped around the storm heading a bit West then South, all dirt roads in Kansas are VERY SOAKED from the rains we have had so chasing in a bit tuff. I ran through the damage of a small tornado where poles where snapped and irrigation systems were thrown about. I worked my way to US-83 and a bit East where i ran into a dairy farm that was hit and had many cows cut up and killed from metal that was thrown around. I stopped to take a couple quick photos but i heard a hissing behind me, it was a gas meter broke open. With lightening in the area and such i was worried about a spark so i cut out quickly. I saw rotation just to the South so i hit US-83 to get closer but by this time the road was closed, i tried to find a good way around but it was getting dark and once again the roads are so wet. I stopped and got some good lightening photos and eventually had to cross some fields to get back to Garden City for the night as US-83 was closed for the night.

I did not see any large tornados but this chase had a little bit of everything that made it fun. From gustnados, large hail, lightening, structure, damage it was a very fun chase.

My latest video is uo and can be seen Here. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niKulXO8ekU)

BTW ... i'm new to video posting and editing ... how do you put your name on the video for the entire running time? Thanks

[Dann Cianca]

Can't really add anything too exciting. Worked until 3PM in Denver and thought I'd try my luck on the dryline on I-70. Go to the Kansas border right when a storm went up. Unfortunately, the surface moisture mixed out and we lost it. Did get some pretty pictures of a wildfire, the storm, and the sunset. Brief video and tons of pics on my blog:

http://blog.bigskyconvection.com/2009/05/2009-storm-chase-vii-brief-april-29th.html

[Steve Miller TX]

Finally got my video uploaded of the Cedar Hill, Texas event....pretty interesting structure of the large tornado on top of the Caprock from my vantage point several miles east. It ropes out towards the end while a second brief tornado forms towards the right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRb8_ED8_qo

[Ben Holcomb]

Finally got my recap up from the 29th (only a week late!) at http://www.benholcomb.com/20090429.html

[Chris Nuttall]

I was able to chase the supercell near Panhandle, TX. I pretty much had the storm to myself, a rarity nowadays, and a pleasant surprise. I intended to get ahead of the storm near Four Way north of Amarillo, but didn't get there in time. Then, I decided to intercept the storm at Fritch...but didn't get there in time. Fortunately, it turned out the best.

The storm took a hard right turn and really wrapped up producing two tornadoes north of Panhandle. (http://www.stormkiller.com/component/option,com_gallery2/Itemid,112/?g2_itemId=1029) I was about 4-5 miles away, and could not see any debris on the ground, but a sheriff closer to the storm did see debris from the funnel in the left portion of my video. In the video, you can see an old wall cloud occluding to the right, which produced one tornado, and a new funnel/tornado forming on the SW flank (left side), which produced the tornado reported by the sheriff. Looking over the radar archives, it's interesting to note that an outflow boundary from the storms farther to the SE intersected the Panhandle cell at nearly the same time (within 1-3 minutes) of the sheriff's report and my video.

I stayed way out ahead of the storm, and filmed a great wide shot of it, including some "bolts from the blue." (http://www.stormkiller.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1034&g2_serialNumber=4&g2_GALLERYSID=333674a38852b0add1316c48ca24349a) I eventually broke off the chase around north of Clarendon, and took US-287 back to Amarillo to avoid the hail. A very productive chase that also happened to be extremely close to home.

Here a few of the pictures I took. More pictures (http://www.stormkiller.com/component/option,com_gallery2/Itemid,112/?g2_itemId=1011) and videos (http://www.stormkiller.com/component/option,com_gallery2/Itemid,112/?g2_itemId=1021) can be found on my website. I'm still working on a full event report, and I'll post that when I get it done.

http://www.stormkiller.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1012&g2_serialNumber=3&g2_GALLERYSID=333674a38852b0add1316c48ca24349a
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[Stephen Locke]

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Photographs and account. Here: (http://www.stephenlocke.com/blog/Site/Stephen%20Locke%20the%20Tempest%20Gallery/8B3861A3-4C31-475D-81E5-83E37A183722.html)