Start: Valley Park, MO/lunch: Poplar Bluff McDonalds/End: Hope, AR/517 miles Storm Reports SPC Day One SPC MD 2:18 p.m. CDT Arkansas Another chase day in… [Read More]
April 27, 2026 Mississippi River Chase near St. Louis
Start: Webb City, MO/Lunch: Arbys in Sullivan, MO/End: Valley Park, MO/521 miles Storm Reports SPC Day One SPC MD Missouri 11:56 a.m. CDT SPC MD… [Read More]
April 26, 2026 Tornado near Sycamore, Kansas
Start: OKC/Lunch: Los Potros Mexican in Blackwell, OK/End: Webb City, MO (near Joplin)/446 miles Storm Reports SPC Day One SPC MD OK 1:56 p.m. SPC… [Read More]
April 25, 2026 Moderate Risk Storms in Southern OK
Start: OKC/Lunch: Paul’s Valley Braums/End: Purcell, OK/220 miles Storm Reports SPC Day One SPC MD for OK at 3:04 p.m. CDT Hopes were rather high… [Read More]
April 23, 2026 Played KS and missed the show in OK
Storm Reports SPC Day One SPC MD for OK SPC MD for KS SPC MD for OK/KS at 6:50 p.m. This chase day is one… [Read More]
April 15, 2026 Sunset Rainbow at Eastman, OK
Storm Reports SPC Day One SPC MD 3:55 p.m. CDT This was a bonus chase for many of the Tour 1 guests, as the official… [Read More]
April 14, 2026 Western OK Marginally Severe
Storm Reports SPC Day One SPC MD 2:39 p.m. CDT Expectations on this chase day were somewhat high, as SPC showed a 5 percent hatched… [Read More]
Professional Article Debunking Death Valley’s 134F Temperature is Published
This entry written in February, 2026 I was contacted by Dr. Roy Spencer (of the University of Alabama in Huntsville) in November, 2024, regarding my… [Read More]
Highest Temperature Reports in Death Valley (and California)
This write-up was uploaded to my web site on October 9, 2025 (and was updated on November 14, 2025, in the Stovepipe Wells section). A… [Read More]
September 18, 2025 Boron, CA Supercell Chase
On this day I managed to chase, observe and photograph perhaps the best California supercell storms that I have yet to witness! And, I was… [Read More]
Badwater Monthly Data NASA station JJA 1998-2019
Photo above: The Badwater weather instrumentation in July, 2024. This is where McKay’s NASA station at Badwater was located from 1998 to 2019. The NWS… [Read More]
Death Valley Long Term Climate Data
I find myself often digging into old climatological publications for Death Valley weather and climate records. This entry is designed to help stick much of… [Read More]
June 27, 2025 Ideal, South Dakota Supercell
Start: Chadron/lunch: Antelope Cafe in Gordon, NE/End: Valentine, NE/415 miles Storm Reports SPC Day One 20Z Mesoscale Discussions. 2:45 p.m. CDT. 5:07 p.m. CDT. 6:47… [Read More]
June 24, 2025 Severe Bennett to Merino, CO
Start: Lamar, CO/lunch: maybe near Greeley??/End: Julesburg/476 miles Storm Reports SPC Day One 20Z Mesoscale Discussions. 1:35 p.m. CDT. 5:05 p.m. CDT. We got out… [Read More]
June 23, 2025 Baca County Supercell
Start: Sidney, NE/lunch: Arbys and Subway in Limon/End: Lamar/568 miles Storm Reports SPC Day One 20Z Mesoscale Discussions. 4:45 p.m. CDT (no SPC MD for… [Read More]
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