A total eclipse of the sun was predicted (with 100 percent certainty) to cross the United States on August 21, 2017. I believe… [Read More]
June 3, 2017 Hooker Supercell and Sunset
Start: Oklahoma City End: Hugoton, KS SPC Day One Outlook SPC Storm Reports June 3rd — it is the end… [Read More]
May 3, 2017 Weak storms in western Oklahoma
Start: Oklahoma City End: Shamrock, TX 293 miles SPC Day One/20Z SPC Storm Reports My first tour with Tempest Tours in 2017… [Read More]
March 13, 2017 Fogbow at San Nicolas Island
Dense fog is not uncommon on San Nicolas Island, where I work as a weather observer at the airport. On Monday, March 13, a… [Read More]
June 27, 2016 Ovid Supercell
Start/North Platte, NE End/Yuma, CO 346 miles Lunch at Valentinos in Ogallala SPC Day One 20Z spc-mesoscale-discussion-1064 spc-mesoscale-discussion-1065 spc-mesoscale-discussion-1066 spc-mesoscale-discussion-1067 Storm Reports Our… [Read More]
June 13, 2016 DIA Sunset
Start and end/Denver SPC Day One 20Z spc-mesoscale-discussion-894 spc-mesoscale-discussion-899 SPC Storm Reports The start of Tour 6 was tomorrow, and we were in… [Read More]
May 28, 2016 Large, Damaging Rainbow on the Ground — Baca County
Start, Oklahoma City End, Lamar, CO 429 miles lunch at Woodward (Braums) I think that every chaser knows where Baca County is. Is… [Read More]
May 24, 2016 In Dodge City with Auntie Crepuscular and Uncle Mammatus
Immediately following our approximately two-hour tornado chase from Fowler and Minneola, Kansas, to the Dodge City area, we found ourselves on the west side… [Read More]
June 22, 2015 Lemmon, SD, Northern Lights/Aurora
I had NEVER planned a trip to the great outdoors to view the Northern Lights (or the Southern Lights, for that matter). I… [Read More]
June 16, 2015 western Nebraska supercells
This chase day began in Guernsey, WY, and we targeted areas to the ESE from about Scottsbluff to North Platte. After our pizza lunch… [Read More]
June 2, 2015 Nebraska Panhandle supercells
Our group was in pretty good shape position-wise as we gathered for the morning briefing at the motel in Chadron. We had some time… [Read More]
May 23, 2015 Sheridan Lake, CO Linear Junk
Hmmm…this day barely deserves its own web site page. Tour 4, with Steve and Rook as guides, got out of OKC by about noon… [Read More]
March 1, 2015 Conejo Valley Thunderstorm
The first day of March had some fun weather possibilities…right here in my backyard. I wasn’t thinking tornadoes or severe weather, but with a… [Read More]
May 27, 2014 San Saba TX supercells
A slight risk of supercells with perhaps a tornado was forecast for Central Texas on May 27. We had lunch in San Angelo, and… [Read More]
May 2, 2014 Nebraska Panhandle hailer
On May 2, there was a risk of thunderstorms along a front in the Nebraska Panhandle (SPC did not indicate a risk for severe… [Read More]