Start: Amarillo Brunch: Ye Olde Pancake Station in Amarillo End: Lubbock/320 miles Storm Reports SPC Day One/20Z Tour 4 guests finally had a chase day… [Read More]
May 20, 2023 Lightning Show at Capulin
Start: Oklahoma City, OK Lunch: Woodward fast food End: Clayton, NM/485 miles The first day of Tour 4 out of OKC started out on the… [Read More]
May 13, 2023 Northwestern Iowa Tornadoes
Start: Sioux City, IA Lunch: No lunch Dinner: Las Flores Mexican Restaurant in Rockwell City, IA End: Carroll, IA/296 miles Storm Reports SPC Day One/1630Z… [Read More]
May 12, 2023 Eastern Nebraska Supercells (or, NOPE, we didn’t see the Spalding tornadoes)
Storm Reports SPC Day One/20Z Surface Map for 3 p.m. CDT above This was a frustrating chase day, as the best storms with the very… [Read More]
May 11, 2023 Alex, OK Supercells
Start: Wakeeney, KS Lunch: Woodward/Chases BBQ End: El Reno, OK/594 miles Storm Reports SPC Day One/20Z Surface obs at 4 p.m. CDT above. “S” marks… [Read More]
May 10, 2023 Selden KS Supercell
May 9) Start: Kiowa, KS/lunch: Yur Place in Hardtner/End: Burlington, CO/370 miles May 10) Start: Burlington/lunch: fast food in Limon/end: Wakeeney, KS/541 miles First, a… [Read More]
May 6, 2023 Archer and Throck storms (and gaudy rainbow)
Begin: Killeen, TX Lunch: Billy’s/Cisco End: Wichita Falls, TX/359 miles Storm Reports SPC Day One/20Z Another chase day in Texas for Tour 2, and we… [Read More]
May 5, 2023 Marble Falls, TX Supercell
Begin: Abilene, TX Lunch: MA’S Crossroads Grill/Santa Anna End: Killeen, TX/318 miles Storm Reports SPC Day One/20Z Surface plot above, 4 p.m. CDT/the red S… [Read More]
May 4, 2023 Crowell and Paducah Supercells
Begin: Woodward, OK Brunch: Pollyanna’s at Woodward End: Abilene (461 miles) Storm Reports SPC Day One 20Z Prospects today looked rather good, at least before… [Read More]
May 2 and 3, 2023 Barely Severe in Texas
Tour 2 out of OKC started out very slowly as we waited for Gulf moisture to come back north. Here are the day-to-day particulars from… [Read More]
April 26, 2023 Clyde and Goldthwaite severe. Or, sagging outflow boundary ruins tornado prospects.
Our group had a good supercell chase near Ballinger on April 22, but a cold front swept southward into far South Texas early on the… [Read More]
April 22, 2023 Ballinger to Doole, TX supercell
This post is for the impressive storm near Ballinger on the 22nd. Tour 1 out of OKC started on April 20th, with Matt P. and… [Read More]
Westlake Village Climate Data
DAILY DATA/MAX AND MIN TEMPS AND 24-HOUR PRECIP (midnight to midnight) Westlake Village/Hidden Canyon station from 1999 to 2012: Westlake Village/Northgate station from 2013 to… [Read More]
March 22, 2023 A tornado in Montebello
A potent storm swept through Southern California on Tue, March 21. On the next day, energetic cyclonic WSW flow continued over Los Angeles County above… [Read More]
January 12, 2023 LAX Visibility Markers
At Los Angeles Airport (LAX), weather observers are tasked with determining the “prevailing visibility” for each observation. As a weather observer, I figured that it… [Read More]