video of Campo Tornado on youtube The Campo tornado chase posts are in two parts on Stormbruiser. Part One covers the preliminaries from about… [Read More]
Archives for May 2010
May 31, 2010 Campo, CO tornadoes Part 1 of 2
Memorial Day 2010 was a big day for chasers in Baca County, CO. A supercell went up early in the afternoon, spit out a couple… [Read More]
May 30, 2010 Billings, OK Messy storms
Kirstie and I had a few days to chase together in my X-terra between the end of Tour 4 and my flight back to California. … [Read More]
May 26, 2010 DIA supercell, CO
Our day began in Goodland. My target area was the Cheyenne Ridge area around Cheyenne, but it was a shaky target! I posted the following… [Read More]
May 25, 2010 west-central KS tornadic supercells
This was a somewhat odd chase day. We began in Murdo, SD, and had a long drive to make in order to get to the… [Read More]
May 24, 2010 Howes and Faith, SD tornadoes
A great tornado chase today! Our chase tour (with Brian Morganti and Chris Gullikson) started out of OKC two days prior, and we were quite… [Read More]
May 23, 2010 Goodland, KS tornadoes
We began the day in Dodge City, with a target of somewhere around Atwood, KS, in the northwest part of the state. A warm front… [Read More]
May 22, 2010 nowhere near Bowdle, SD
A HUGE day! Severe weather parameters proclaimed “all storm chasers shall place themselves in front the South Dakota surface low!” It was an easy forecast. … [Read More]
May 20, 2010 Hill County, TX marginal severe
On this, the final full chase day for Tour 3, we had a chance for severe weather down in the DFW region, along a boundary… [Read More]
May 19, 2010 Blaine and Kingfisher counties, OK, tornadic supercell
High risk! High risk in OK! High risk in OK in May! High risk in OK in May near OKC! High risk in OK in… [Read More]
May 18, 2010 Moore County, TX tornadic supercell
From Portales, NM, we headed north towards the western OK PH. Conditions appeared favorable for supercells here, and as it turned out, we overshot to… [Read More]
May 17, 2010 Artesia, NM severe storms
This day began in Odessa, TX, and we motored northwest into NM for some fun. Near Artesia we watched a couple of strong storm towers… [Read More]
May 15 and 16, 2010 Marathon, TX convection
On both the 15th and 16th we were in Fort Stockton for lunch, and from there we headed southwest towards Alpine on U.S. 67. We… [Read More]
May 14, 2010 Permian Basin TX supercells and lightning
Today we woke up pretty much where we needed to be — in Midland, TX. A boundary was oriented WSW-ENE a little north of I-20… [Read More]
May 13, 2010 Reposition to SW TX
This morning we had the new alternator installed onto the van, and so we got a somewhat late start. Fortunately, the severe threat was fairly… [Read More]