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 20, 2008 Keota, CO High Plains Gets Shafted
Or, High Plains gets a fun hail shaft. The previous four days were down days. Our group poked around Big Bend on the 16th and… [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 28, 2007 Torrington, WY
Rotating updrafts south of Torrington, WY, were strongly deviant and moved west in weak northerly flow aloft. This one above has a dinky, bare-bones rotating… [Read More]
June 27, 2007 EC Wyoming
High-based storms on this day in extreme eastern Wyoming were not entirely uninteresting. But almost.
June 24, 2007 central ND
This day is a blur. I think we had lunch in Bismarck, and targetted an area southwest of Bismarck. Storm towers went up late in… [Read More]
June 23, 2007 SW Manitoba supercell
June 23 was a Saturday, the first full day of chasing for Tour 6—-a day which was doomed from the start. This was the day… [Read More]
June 15, 2007 Central South Dakota CB
short version: Brian and I were almost ready to blow off the day, chase-wise, from SW ND, when a cell developed to our SSE in… [Read More]
May 30, 2007 Capulin, NM LP Supercell
The chase prospects on May 30th were fairly slim, but one must always be mindful of High Plains Magic. Or, in this case, Raton Mesa… [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]
August 18-21, 2006 Monsoon Chase
Charlie B. and I spent a few days this August driving back and forth on Interstate 10 in SE AZ and SW NM. …A faint,… [Read More]
June 29, 2006 Monument Rocks, KS
A neat rock formation rises from the flats of southern Gove County, KS. We were there at mid-afternoon while waiting for storm initiation, and the… [Read More]
June 27, 2006 Beatrice, NE Hailstorm and rainbow
June 24, 2006 El Paso County, CO storm at sunset
Something finally worth looking at on this day, a bit east of Colorado Springs. I caught one decent lightning strike and thought I had a… [Read More]