After a Chinese food lunch in Alliance, we needed to drift northeast and east just a little. I was relatively comfortable sticking close to the… [Read More]
June 19, 2008 Potter, NE small supercells
The southern Nebraska Panhandle along I-80 was the hot spot today. A strong updraft or two developed in the vicinity of Kimball, and moved east. … [Read More]
June 14, 2008 SE TX PH CB…
…which, as everyone knows, stands for “southeast Texas Panhandle cumulonimbus”. Our target area on this day was along I-40 between Shamrock and Amarillo. And, the… [Read More]
June 13, 2008 SW OK Storms
A boundary ran roughly SW-NE through southwest Oklahoma, and we watched towers struggle against the strong cap for much of the afternoon near Chickasha. A… [Read More]
June 12, 2008 Lyon County, KS Severe storms
This was a long day, as I began in Storm Lake, IA, and had to meet Brian and the Tour 5 group in Lincoln, NE…. [Read More]
May 30, 2008 Southeast Kansas storms
Back to southeastern Kansas again! This was the final chase day for Tour 3, so it was nice that our target wasn’t too far from… [Read More]
May 25, 2008 Central Kansas Storms
The big play this day was in Iowa, where the Parkersburg monster tornado formed. We began the day in Salina and played central Kansas. We… [Read More]
May 6, 2008 Southern TX Panhandle storms
On this Tuesday we hit the road a little on the early side (from Dodge City), as we needed to be in the Lubbock, TX,… [Read More]
April 26, 2008 San Angelo, TX supercell
It is chase season again on the Great Plains! I abandoned Los Angeles on Friday, April 25th, and stayed in Las Cruces, NM, on Friday… [Read More]
July 4, 2007 Perryton, TX
The target on this day was southwest Kansas, but shear was blah and the chances for a supercell were slim. We lingered around “old town”… [Read More]
July 2, 2007 Brockton, MT, supercell
This was the first full day for Tour 7, and my driver was Brad Carter. Much like the first day of Tour 6 a week… [Read More]
June 14, 2007 NW North Dakota LPs and CGs
short version: Brian and I wandered north and west from Minot towards Kenmare and vicinity. Shear was great, CAPE was so-so, and a front was… [Read More]
May 19, 2007 Lame Deer, MT CB and CGs
Prospects for a nice storm were decent on this chase day. We took U.S. 212 west from Belle Fourche into Montana, and as far west… [Read More]
May 18, 2007 Belle Fourche, SD night lightning
Weak storms developed west of Sundance, WY and barely kept us from falling asleep. After getting our rooms around 10 p.m. in Belle Fourche, a… [Read More]
May 15, 2007 West Texas lightning
CGs east of Van Horn, TX. Not much happened on this day during daylight hours. The tour group dropped south through eastern New Mexico and… [Read More]