Storm chaser Aaron Jayjack reports live from Iowa, explaining why storm chasers prefer to be on the south side of storms like the ones moving through the Upper Midwest on April 28.
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00:00Now we're joined by storm chaser Aaron Jajak joining us live from Armstrong in Northern Iowa.
00:06Aaron, it appears that you're on that cell that is a confirmed tornado warning.
00:11So how's this going right now?
00:15Yeah, that's right. This is a storm you're looking at right in front of me here, just to our north.
00:20It does have an observed tornado warning on it.
00:23So I think it's tucked back into the rain back in here somewhere.
00:26But we are headed that way right now to get up there.
00:30Obviously, you can see a very dangerous storm here.
00:32You can see this shelf cloud in front of it as it moves off to the east here.
00:36We're quite rapidly moving off to the northeast.
00:39So dangerous storm here. We do have a tornado watch in effect.
00:42This is tornado warning. So if you are in the path of this storm, it's racing off to the northeast.
00:46Make sure you get into your safe spot right now because, as we mentioned, it does have an observed tornado line.
00:52So we are just minutes away from being up here, right up underneath the storm.
00:56And we might be able to get a glance at it here in a couple of minutes.
01:00Back to you guys.
01:01All right. Thanks for that report there, Aaron.
01:03So, again, Aaron J. Jack approaching this storm from the south.
01:06And storm chasers want to stay.
01:07Aaron, if you're still with us, can Aaron still hear us?
01:11If not, we can then.
01:12Yeah, Aaron, can you tell our viewers why do storm chasers like to stay?
01:16I can hear you. I can hear you.
01:16Yeah. Why do storm chasers like to be on the south side of a supercell?
01:19What's the benefit of being on the south side versus the north side?
01:22Well, generally on the south side, you're going to get a better view into the storm, into the base of the storm.
01:29If you're north of the storm, you're going to, depending on how far north, if you're completely north of the storm, you're going to be looking through rain and hail.
01:36You're not going to see the rain-free updraft base, which we're kind of looking at right now is in that updraft, that rain-free updraft base location.
01:44Now, you can get a little bit north of a tornado before you get into the rain, but generally, if you get up north of the tornado closer to the rain,
01:53you're going to start getting that big hail, damaging hail that can destroy your vehicle.
01:57So you stay to the south, you're going to be able to stay out of that hail, out of that heavy rain, which definitely is a good thing.
02:04But it can also sometimes hamper viewing, actually, if the tornado gets wrapped in rain, and then you're going to lose visibility.
02:10Back to you, Nelson.
02:11All right, Aaron, thanks for explaining that again, and I think our viewers are seeing a pretty good example.
02:15If you're on the north side of this, you're going to get hammered by one to two-inch diameter hail.
02:19Heavy rain obscures the view, but again, Aaron's coming up from Armstrong from the south side.
02:23He's getting a good view of the base of this storm.
02:26Now, it is rain-wrapped, so again, there's going to be some observation difficulties regardless because we have a lot of high dewpoint air.
02:34But again, if there's going to be a tornado to see, and there likely is a little closer to the core of that storm,
02:39he's putting himself in position to see that without losing his windshield and so forth.
02:43So, we're going to see that this storm is going to be a pretty good look at, and our team is going to be a pretty good look at this storm.
02:49So, let's talk to everyone, and we're going to be down with an air-wing to the air-wing to the air-wing to the air-wing to the air-wing to the air-wing to the air-wing.