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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 9:13AM

June 10 storms - Putnam/Kanawha Counties

By DAN ROBINSON

Editor/Photographer

From Dan: How the crime of copyright infringement took $1 million from me and shut down my operation.

In September of 2025, my work is generating the most income it ever has in my career. Yet, I'm being forced to shut down my successul operation, against my will, due to one cause alone: 95% of that revenue is being stolen by piracy and copyright infringement. I've lost more than $1 million to copyright infringement in the last 15 years, and it's finally brought an end to my professional storm chasing operation. Do not be misled by the lies of infringers, anti-copyright activists and organized piracy cartels. This page is a detailed, evidenced account of my battle I had to undertake to just barely stay in business, and eventually could not overcome. It's a problem faced by all of my colleagues and most other creators in the field.

Another round of storms for the Charleston area on Tuesday. While most of these earned severe thunderstorm warnings, I didn't see anything that met that criteria in the 3 cores I sampled. Dime-sized hail at Institute was the largest I saw, when I intentionally let a core pass overhead. Once again, it was rather interesting to watch everyone panic here during small hail - traffic was creeping and cars were pulling over everywhere on Route 25 and I-64 while this was happening. I wonder what West Virginians will do when we actually get *real* hail (golfball-sized and up). For the 8th time this year, a 1" hail report came in from South Charleston a few miles away.

The only stills I shot yesterday were in Teays Valley of an isolated thunderstorm over Hurricane. The storm had an updraft base and precip core in all the right places, but I'd hesitate in calling it a supercell as I saw no rotation either visually or on radar. The stuff under the base here is ragged 'scud' material, not rotating but rather pushing uniformly eastward in cold outflow. Nothing remotely tornadic. Surface winds out of the west and unidirectional upper winds didn't lend themselves well to anything more than this. The viewing location was the new I-64/US 35 interchange, which has become one of my favorites in Putnam County as it is one of the few elevated vantage points without trees or power lines in the way (for now anyway).