I had a rare midday work shift on Wednesday, and several hours of daylight remained. What to do?! I had made precious few photo… [Read More]
June 20, 2012 Northwest Iowa shelf cloud
Today’s starting point was Redwood Falls, MN, with a slight risk for severe through central Iowa along an advancing cold front. We drove east… [Read More]
May 8 and 9, 2012 Big Bend scenery
A cold front cleared most of TX and we found ourselves with cool and overcast conditions at Fort Stockton on the 8th. There was… [Read More]
June 9, 2011 northeast KS bust
We thought that this might be a day with tornadoes in northeastern KS, north of Topeka, but the weather gods said NO. Here is my… [Read More]
May 29, 2011 Lincoln, NE little LP updraft
Tour 4 2011 for Tempest Tours began in OKC on Saturday, the 28th. The guides for this tour were Chad Cowan and Danny Gonzales. We… [Read More]
May 1 and 2, 2011 Desert Jaunt
The drive east from L.A. for my stormchase stint is typically drab and dull. This is especially true if I take Interstate 10 into Texas. … [Read More]
July 1, 2010 Pambrun, SK supercell
This was our third day in Saskatchewan, and our persistence in Canada’s best province paid off. Severe weather parameters were forecast to be fairly decent… [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 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 3-8, 2010 Last half of Tour 2
Unfortunately, the last half of this tour was a little short on good storms. On May 3rd, we viewed a dud cumulus field from a… [Read More]
May 3, 2010 Picher and Neutral, OK and KS
We had time to kill in between systems, so we poked around Picher, OK. Much of Picher was thrashed by a large tornado on May… [Read More]
March 14 and 15, 2010 Eureka Dunes
Brian and Nancy Morganti and I spent the first part of Sunday, March 14th, in and around Keeler and Cerro Gordo. After lunch in Lone… [Read More]
March 15, 2010 Red Rock Canyon
Red Rock Canyon is a desert area with colorful and stark scenery along Hwy 14, north of Mojave, CA. Parts of Red Rock Canyon look… [Read More]
December 3, 2009 Amboy Under the Milky Way
Amboy, California, is a tiny town buried in the middle of the eastern Mojave Desert. It is on old U.S. 66, but when Interstate 40… [Read More]
October 27, 2009 Neenach, CA Wind Chase
A rare full day off from work + windstorm forecast = local chase to the desert. A strong NW jet stream was moving over SoCal… [Read More]