Texas Panhandle: March 27, 2019
Heading out for this chase, I knew there was the potential that storms would not fire at all. The environment was fairly marginal, more specifically, there was very little, if any, meaningful large-scale forcing....
Category: Storm Chasing
First Chase of 2019
It’s February and it’s Oklahoma. Although I had never chased this early in the year in this area, stranger things have happened. When I saw an opportunity for storms only a couple of hours...
Five Years of Chasing, a Retrospective
I just finished my fifth year of storm chasing in 2018. Sometimes it’s hard to believe it’s been that long, while at other times it feels like it’s been much longer. Although I did...
2018 Travels, Stats
This was my fifth full year storm chasing and while it did not feature a lot of tornadoes, there were plenty memorable storms and other experiences. The year 2018 started in a unique way,...
Colorado Supercells: June 19, 2018
It took a while, but one of the best storm chases of the year took place in eastern Colorado on June 19th. The early part of this season was very slow in terms of...
Southeastern Nebraska: June 11, 2018
I started the day focused on southeastern Nebraska with the potential for a few tornadic supercells. By mid-afternoon, storms in northeastern Nebraska started to rotate fairly quickly, but I wanted to hold off for...
Montana Mammatus: June 8, 2018
This chase day was all over the map. I started in central South Dakota, as I was leaning toward targeting a warm front somewhere in the vicinity of southwestern Minnesota, but kept options farther...
Transient Supercells: May 23, 2018
Another panhandle chase, this time in the Nebraska panhandle, featured transient supercells, passing from northeastern Colorado into western/central Nebraska. Multiple isolated storms developed in northeastern Colorado during the afternoon, but it took some time...
Texas Panhandle Storms: May 18, 2018
The day started in Dodge City to keep multiple chase targets in range, but it became clear fairly quickly that I was going to favor the Oklahoma/Texas panhandles. The moist axis verified well and...
Cimarron County, Oklahoma: May 16, 2018
An isolated thunderstorm developed over the western portion of the Oklahoma Panhandle yesterday. While the thunderstorm was not particularly intense, it did moved fairly slowly, allowing for me to sit in one location and...
Fire-Induced Supercell: May 11, 2018
This was one of the most interesting chase days in my career and it seems fitting that it would happen in the Texas panhandle. Due to the variety of storms I’ve seen in the...
Nebraska Supercell: May 10, 2018
The “southern strategy” paid off on Thursday, as I chased a relatively isolated supercell from far northeastern Colorado into southwestern Nebraska. Around mid-afternoon, multiple thunderstorms developed in the northeastern Colorado vicinity, but it took...
Outflow Dominance: May 9, 2018
Not every successful storm chase requires a tornado and sometimes the least impressive looking atmospheric setups produce some photogenic storms. Today’s storm chase featured very low confidence that anything impressive would form, as the...
Ohio Valley Severe Threat: 4/3/18
Three regimes for potentially severe convection on Tuesday are as follows: Warm front from central Indiana to central Ohio. Pre-frontal trough from central/southern Indiana into western/central Kentucky and southwestern Ohio. Cold front from west...
Where Did I Chase in 2017?
This was my first full chase year based out of Oklahoma. I did not chase nearly as many events as in 2016, but I witnessed at least three tornadoes in Oklahoma, one on which...
Alabama Hail: March 19, 2018
The first legitimate storm chase of the season took place in northern Alabama, where significant severe thunderstorms produced destructive hail and tornadoes. Most of the tornadoes were rain-wrapped or occurred after dark, but I...