Wild Day in Missouri
Today’s storm chase felt like a tale of two stories to me. It started in northeastern Missouri with several discrete thunderstorms firing. For whatever reason, aside from the ongoing joke of “2015ing,” most of...
Monthly Archive: June 2015
Photos from Colorado
Thunderstorms developed during the afternoon of June 18th, 2015 across eastern Colorado. Although these storms stayed predominantly non-severe, they showed rotation late in their life cycle.
June 24th Afternoon Update
A severe thunderstorm and isolated tornado threat exists across portions of the middle Mississippi River Valley late this afternoon into the early evening hours. While severe thunderstorms with large hail and damaging winds will...
Afternoon Update: June 22 Severe
The evolution of today’s severe weather threat was assumed to be complex from the start and it’s certainly unfolding that way. A potent mesoscale convective complex (MCC) developed over the Dakotas late Sunday night and...
June 22 Severe Threat
There is the potential for a regional severe weather event on June 22nd. The threat zone extends from portions of the middle/upper Mississippi Valley into the western Great Lakes. All severe weather hazards are...
Northern Plains: June 19
A severe thunderstorm threat is expected to develop late this afternoon into the evening hours across portions of the northern Plains. The setup includes an area of surface low pressure ejecting from Wyoming toward...
Tornado Threat: June 17
As the remnants of Tropical Storm Bill move northward through the southern Plains, a modest threat for tornadoes may develop on Wednesday. Typically with landfalling tropical systems, the northeast quadrant is where there is...
Severe Threats: June 18-21
As the calendar passes deeper into June, there is typically a steady drop-off in the frequency of severe weather threats across the U.S. Last year featured a grand finale to the severe weather season...
Winona Tornado
After a long day of storm chasing through eastern Colorado, I headed east into Kansas as the sun was beginning to set. At the southern flank of a line of thunderstorms, a section of...
Wyoming Funnels
An interesting first chase in Wyoming landed a couple of funnel clouds. They were associated with a relatively weak looking cell on radar, but wind shear and upslope aided in assisting the rotation. This...
Sunset Structure
Tuesday was a long day of storm chasing across the Dakotas. Not many storms reached severe limits, but there was plenty of neat structure to observe. The above photo is from about 9:30 p.m....
Heading North
After a travel day on Monday that finished with a storm chase in South Dakota, today looks to feature an even greater severe weather threat across the northern Plains. Both of the Dakotas come...
Black Hills, SD Supercell
After starting the morning in Albuquerque, New Mexico, I managed to leave by 6 a.m. and arrive in South Dakota before sunset. (That was over 800 miles of driving, nearly non-stop.) A supercell thunderstorm...
