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Cute Video of Zippy Eating...

My Canon XH-A1s for Sale on eBay...

My Canon XH-A1s for sale on eBay...

Go to Bid HERE...

Jim Ellis for Mayor Audio Ad put to Pictures

Incredible Lightning Video by Stephen Locke...

Very Nice Work by Stephen Locke...

MESO Storm Chase 2011 - Multi-Media Piece...

A very cool multi-media piece my brother Matt Detrich of the Indianapolis Star shot of our storm chase group MESO this spring on his first ever storm chase, although we did not score a tornado this year he, and we, got some amazing photos. Also a side note, my blog has gone over the 100,000 unique clicks in the past week, thanks to all of you that have visited in the past and keep coming back...

G-Form Extreme iPad Case, in my Hands, in Time...

The G-Form Extreme iPad Sleeve on my desk today.

With the help of Cathy from G-Form, I now have in my hot little hands one of their newest products to protect my iPad for my upcoming storm chase into the plains, before its official release. The G-Form iPad Extreme Sleeve™ protects your iPad or iPad2 from impact by utilizing RPT-Reactive Protection Technology, a combination of PORON® XRD™ material and proprietary G-Form design and manufacturing. The Extreme Sleeve™ is water-resistant, soft, flexible, lightweight and changes its molecular structure on impact. Cathy tells me it is a bit of miracle molecular manipulation that makes the sleeve so impact resistant. They have a bunch of great products and I recommend a visit to their website.

04/27/11 Tornado Outbreak Captured from Space...

A Nice Little Bit of Coverage Last Night...

Fremont photographer turns stormchaser: foxtoledo.com

Sad, Amazing, Devastating, How to Describe Yesterday?

I have seen four major tornado outbreaks that stand out in my mind, 1974 Super Outbreak, where I saw my first tornado, May 3rd 1999, November 10, 2002, and yesterday, April 27th, 2011.

The 1974 Super Outbreak, raised my awareness of tornadoes as I got my first glimpse of the power of Mother Nature as I watched my first tornado. May 3rd, 1999 I drove overnight to Oklahoma City, OK to cover the aftermath of the outbreak for the news agency I was working for at the time. I was one of the first photojournalists let into the Moore and Midwest City area, and the city of Bridge Creek, OK, as I entered with the Pegasus Project, an animal search and rescue team. The F-5 tornado wiped most of those cities off the map, literally. I spent several days shooting the totally destructive force of the twisters that hit the area.

On November 10, 2002, I had the day off from my job, and was celebrating my 40th birthday by watching the weather during the outbreak, we were under a tornado watch here in Ohio. I saw a huge cell heading NE towards Findlay, Ohio. I knew it would track towards, Tiffin, Ohio and I live just 15 miles from Tiffin. I jumped in my truck, and drove through the most intense thunderstorm I have ever witnessed. The rain stopped as I entered Tiffin, but was running into some quarter sized hail, I turned West down Second Street and then South on Nelson St., that is when I saw a white funnel cloud drop from the clouds and immediately turn black, I stopped in the middle of the street and threw my truck into park, threw open the door and fired off several shots with my 20-35mm lens. Little did I know that my photo would be named one of Time/Life Picture of the Year for 2002.

Yesterday I sat at my desk, glued to the TV watching the Weather Channel live coverage as the tornado worked its way from Tuscaloosa through Birmingham LIVE on TV, had Radar Scope running on my iPad, live streaming of chasers on my laptop, and streaming radio from Birmingham on my iPhone. I don't see how people can claim they had "No Warning" of the impending disaster. I could see it in 1974 maybe, but today with 24/7 coverage on TV, FaceBook, Twitter, e-mail, cell phones, iPads, I just can't understand. 

Today reality sets in, the Associated Press reports that at least 307 people are dead, 210 in Alabama. This will no doubt go down in history as one of the largest, if not the largest outbreak in history. There were 32 deaths in Mississippi, 34 in Tennessee, 14 in Georgia, 12 in Arkansas, five in Virginia and one in Kentucky. Hundreds if not thousands of people were injured - 600 in Tuscaloosa alone. All I can say is that people need to be more aware of weather forecasts and maybe sign up for mobile alerts to their cell phones. A simple move like this may save your life.

The storm prediction center received 164 tornado reports around the region, but some tornadoes were probably reported multiple times and it could take days to get a final count.

As I watched the monster tornado move from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham, just a small parcel of it almost 300 mile track, I could not help but to be reminded of the day I watched 911. I had a deep down feeling of dread in my gut knowing hundreds of people might be getting killed, as I watched live on TV. Through all my years of storm chasing, I have seen many bad tornadoes and deaths, but it sure does not get any easier to see things like this happen.

 

1974 Super Outbreak - Xenia, Ohio

The 1974 Xenia tornado that wiped out half of the town in Greene, Co Ohio.

 

May 3rd, 1999 Outbreak - Oklahoma F-5

Sylvia Andrews, a resident of Mulhall, OK, begs a rescue worker to help find her dog which had wandered off. Later the rescuers found her dog and she finished her trip to the post office. Behind her is the water tower which was knocked over by the tornado and washed her home off its base with her inside.

Paula Sanders sifts through the rubble of what used to be her home in Del City, OK. This is the area President Clinton toured on Saturday.

A 2 x 4 is stuck in the windsheild of a truck in Midwest City, OK.

 

November 10th, 2002 Outbreak - Tiffin, Ohio

View of the Tiffin, Ohio tornado looking South down Nelson Street.

A resident of Port Clinton, Ohio in front of whats left of his home.

An inspector for the gas company in Port Clinton looks at a destroyed home.

 

April 27th, 2011 Outbreak - Alabama

SPC Tornado report graphic.

Amazing Photo from Twitter

Yesterday's SPC Tornado Watch graphic.

Photo of the Tuscaloosa tornado by the Dusty Compton via AP.

...SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK ONGOING...

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
636 PM CDT WED APR 27 2011

A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION IS CURRENTLY UNFOLDING ACROSS CENTRAL
ALABAMA...AND SUPERCELLS HAVE ERUPTED ACROSS THE NORTHERN AND
WESTERN SECTIONS OF THE CWA THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW TORNADOES HAVE
ALREADY TOUCHED DOWN...AND REPORTS OF MAJOR DAMAGE ARE STARTING TO
COME IN. THE 18Z SPECIAL SOUNDING THAT WAS PERFORMED PRESENTS A
DESTRUCTIVE SETUP...WITH 2700J/KG OF CAPE...EXTREMELY STEEP LAPSE
RATES...AND DRY AIR ALOFT. 0-3 KM HELICITY VALUES ARE ALMOST 700.
THE PARAMETERS WILL ONLY WORSEN AS WE GO THROUGHOUT THE REST OF
THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE TIME FRAME FOR THE WORST SEVERE
WEATHER WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS FOR
NORTHWEST SECTIONS OF THE STATE...ROUGHLY FROM 2PM TO
8PM...CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE STATE...INCLUDING THE BIRMINGHAM
METRO AREA...FROM 4PM TO 10PM...AND THE SOUTHEAST SECTIONS FROM
6PM TO 2AM. I CANNOT STRESS HOW SERIOUS THIS SITUATION IS. DO
WHATEVER YOU CAN TO PROTECT YOUR LIFE AND PROPERTY NOW...YOUR LIFE
MAY DEPEND ON IT! ALL WEATHER WILL CLEAR THE AREA AFTER 6Z
TONIGHT...SO THE CLEANUP PROCESS CAN BEGIN.

 

4-27-11 Tornado Tuscaloosa, Al from Crimson Tide Productions on Vimeo.

May everyone's thoughts and prayers be with the victims of yesterdays tornado outbreak in the South...

Girard, Illinois Tornado - 04/19/11 - Just Rated EF-3...

Here is a video from a chase with Dave Marshall and I. We bagged this monster around 4:50 p.m. as it crossed SR 4, just outside Girard, Illinois. Not bad for the first chase of the year, as I prepare to leave for chasing in the plains in two weeks. Here is a link to my Flickr site where I will be parking my stills from the day's shoot. It was quite a day!! I made many friends this day also, at the pre-chase convergence at the McDonalds in Effingham, Il.

Photo of tornado as it crosses SR 4, just North of Girard, Illinois.

 

Girard, Illinois tornado - 04/19/11 from Allan Detrich on Vimeo.

 

This is an image from GRL 2 from the time of the tornado.

 

Here is a photo of me (bottom right by the truck) taken by Milwaukee photographer Jennifer Brindley as I am out shooting the tornado and trying to keep people from driving into the tornado at the same time...

Extreme Protection for Your iPad...

For Sale - Sony HVR-Z7U - Mint ++ LOTS OF EXTRAS!!!

Sony HVR-Z7U - Mint PLUS LOTS OF EXTRAS!!!!!!

See it on Ebay, and contact me at [email protected] for details or sale, little use, must sell soon!! 

Thanks,

Allan

PICTURES Music Video Re-Edit...

"PICTURES" Music Video Re-Edit from Allan Detrich on Vimeo.

PICTURES Music Video shot and directed by me, Song by Chuck Chura, co-written with Michael Coleman. Actors Sean Scarlett and Kelly Dettmer, and Rob Dahm as the cop. Filmed in Femont, Ohio with a Canon 5D Mark II digital camera.

My New, Yes He Can, Music Video...

My newest music video, Yes He Can, featuring Terry Davis, song written by Michael Coleman and Terry Davis. Video and editing by Allan Detrich. Directed by Michael Coleman and Allan Detrich.

Yes He Can! from Allan Detrich on Vimeo.

Parts of Ohio Upgraded to Moderate Risk...

DAY 1 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK 
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0140 PM CST WED FEB 11 2009
 
 VALID 112000Z - 121200Z
 
 THERE IS A MDT RISK OF SVR TSTMS ACROSS ERN KY...SRN OH...WRN WV...
 
 THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS SURROUNDING THE MDT RISK FROM
 WRN PA TO ERN AL...
 
 OH/TN VALLEY...
 
 INTENSE UPPER TROUGH WILL EJECT ACROSS THE OH VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON
 AS VERY STRONG H5 SPEED MAX...ON THE ORDER OF 110-120KT...LIFTS
 ACROSS TN/ERN KS INTO SRN WV. EXIT REGION OF THIS FEATURE WILL
 INDUCE VERY STRONG VERTICAL MOTION ACROSS THE OH VALLEY AHEAD OF
 COLD FRONT...AS EVIDENT BY H5 HEIGHT FALLS ON THE ORDER OF
 270-300M/12HR. NEEDLESS TO SAY THIS FOCUSED DYNAMIC SYSTEM WILL
 CONTINUE TO FORCE A NARROW LINE OF CONVECTION ALONG SURGING COLD
 FRONT...ESPECIALLY ACROSS ERN TN/KY INTO SRN OH/WV. LATEST RADAR
 DATA SUGGESTS WELL DEFINED SQUALL LINE...WITH EMBEDDED SMALL
 BOW-TYPE FEATURES...IS MOVING EAST AT ROUGHLY 40-45KT...WITH
 INDIVIDUAL CELLS RACING NEWD IN EXCESS OF 50KT. THIS ACTIVITY IS
 EVOLVING BENEATH STRONG JET CORE AND IS EXTREMELY SHEARED WITHIN
 INCREASING SWLY DEEP LAYER FLOW. THERE IS INCREASING CONCERN THAT
 VERY STRONG DAMAGING WINDS MAY BE NOTED WITH MORE ORGANIZED BOW
 SHAPED STRUCTURES. LATEST SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATES SUBSTANTIAL
 SUNSHINE HAS DEVELOPED AHEAD OF THE LINE ACROSS SERN OH/ERN KS INTO
 WV WHERE SFC-3KM LAPSE RATES ARE APPROACHING 7C/KM. ALTHOUGH
 LIGHTNING IS NEARLY ABSENT WITH THIS LOW TOPPED CONVECTION...VERY
 STRONG WINDS MAY BE TRANSFERED TO THE SURFACE MORE EASILY AS
 BOUNDARY LAYER DEEPENS. FOR THIS REASON HAVE INCREASED THE
 PROBABILITY FOR SIGNIFICANT WIND DAMAGE WITH SQUALL LINE AS IT
 SPREADS NEWD.

New Music Video online - Reptilian Brain...

A new music video I shot for the recording artist FLOWHITE is now online, and you can buy the mp3 and the video HERE. FLOWHITE is from Cleveland and we shot his video last week in the studio of Danny Vega. I think this is a relationship that has legs and many more videos are in the future! If you want to see it in high quality click HERE.

FLOWHITE - Reptilian Brain from Allan Detrich on Vimeo.

Flo White Music Video "Reptilian Brain" in the Can...

I went to Cleveland yesterday and shot for a couple hours on the newest music video for the artist Flo White. The unusual rap artist has a style all of his own. We filmed the "Reptilian Brain" and now the tape is on the way to Austin, TX for editing. We shot the video int he studio of photographer Danny Vega, he was a great help in the lighting area. Will let you know when I get a copy of the video online! Flo White is available on iTunes.

What a Drive...

I am writing you from my hotel room in South Kingston, Rhode Island. I left home this morning at 8 a.m. and just arrived here at 7:35 p.m., just over 700 miles. I am here doing a video shoot for the next 4 days. From what I saw on my last 50 miles driving in I-95, and down to the hotel, it reminds me alot of Maine, where I worked for nearly six years. My GPS showed a stopping time of just over 17 minutes for my entire trip out here, I really hate to waste time stopping. I filled up in Ohio for $3.75 before I left and, put a little gas in my truck in Connecticut for $4.39, I can wait to find it cheaper elsewhere. I am looking forward to seeing some sites if I get a little time off.

I just got one of the last pieces I needed for my Diana camera history book e-mailed to me tonight from Jonathan Bailey of Maine. I hope to get the book done next week sometime and take it to my proofreader for the final OK.