I finally got around to putting this together, a compilation of storm chase footage taken from May 19, 2010. Laugh at the questionable driving abilities of other chasers, enjoy the spookiness of loud tornado sirens, and most of all enjoy the video. 00:25 Large tornadic circulation begins 01:49 4x Speed of tornado evolution 02:22 Tornado begins to lift [read more...]
Storm Chase
I’ve created several new videos, including never before released footage of a storm chase I performed May 25, 2010 in the Texas Panhandle. I observed two separate supercell thunderstorms along US 385 in Channing, TX and Dimmitt, TX. I also observed a tornado, though at the time it wasn’t very obvious. No condensation funnel developed, [read more...]
May 252010
On May 25, 2010 I performed a brief storm chase in the Texas panhandle. I was able to chase two separate supercell thunderstorms before the day ended, with one possible tornado.
May 202010
Storm chase on May 19, 2010, a high risk day in central Oklahoma. At least one tornado, and several funnel clouds were observed from a long lived supercell thunderstorm.
Wow, amazing day! Tornado warned storm plowed through the area just 4 miles south of Frisco after 7pm bringing widespread high wind reports and some tornado damage to areas just west of Frisco. I took the liberty to take screen shots of the storm as it moved through the area, and draw a storm track [read more...]
May 232009
Looks like the chase days for the rest of my vacation are numbered. Low pressure system camping out in the Gulf is moving ashore Saturday, killing any chances of wide spread organized severe weather through Tuesday. To top it off, it will be rain showers and general thunderstorms all Memorial Day weekend, so sight seeing [read more...]
Well, after an exhausting 34 hours of driving in 54 hours time, I am back home. I used Thursday to travel back from Kearney Nebraska to Frisco Texas. Looking at the upcoming weather forecasts, looks like I am not missing much. I read a cool blog entry where the VORTEX2 team actually intercepted a supercell [read more...]
This will be short as I have a massive headache right now. Finally, got to go chase storms after all these years of me talking about it, it finally happened! However it was not a great day for chasing. I got to Alliance, Nebraska around 2:30pm then sat and waited for storms to kick off. [read more...]
At kind of the last minute, I decided to drive 11 hours up to Kearney Nebraska. This puts me in a 4 hour drive away from a target area of either west or north Nebraska where there is a potential for elevated supercells to develop. I arrived up here at around 10:15pm which was 45 [read more...]
May 192009
Day 3 out of 11, I didn’t leave this area at all. Once again, nothing happened. The most interesting stuff was heavy rain in Florida, and some random high wind and hail reports in the western states. Today was supposed to be yet another home chore day but it became home bored/nap every few hours [read more...]
