Sunsets and Storms

June 21, 2010 Yuma County, CO HP Beast

The day of the summer solstice, 2010, was long, long, long, and we needed every minute of it! The day prior featured a great look… [Read More]

June 17, 2010 western KS supercell

We began the final day of this 4-day tour in Dumas, TX, and headed north into western Kansas towards a dry line/cold front intersection. Initial… [Read More]

June 15, 2010 Tatum, NM LP Supercell

This was Day 2 of the short 4-day “mini-tour” out of OKC, and our group was in Lubbock. SPC showed a slight risk for severe… [Read More]

June 13, 2010 NE TX PH outflowish junk

A good chase day for many, but our group was unable to reach the target area in time. This was the “arrival day” in Oklahoma… [Read More]

June 7, 2010 Eastern Colorado Top 500 sunset

Our new tour group (T6) hit the road out of OKC and headed to the High Plains of extreme eastern Colorado via I-35 and I-70. … [Read More]

June 1, 2010 Palo Duro, TX Lightning

I played with some weak storms in the TX Panhandle this evening, as I need to be back in OKC tomorrow. We reached the edge… [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 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 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]

April 30, 2010 western IL bust

Wow, I had successfully forgotten that this day ever occurred, and now I am forced to think about what happened. Or what did not happen. … [Read More]

July 1, 2009 Capitol, MT storm

Our group began this chase day in Lemmon, SD, and our target area was not too far away—southeast MT and into extreme western SD. We… [Read More]

June 30, 2009 Carlyle, MT, Tornadic Supercell

A big day in Montana, and my first Montana tornado! We went north from Baker, MT, about 18 miles, and came upon a developing supercell… [Read More]

June 29, 2009 Alliance, NE high-based mediocrity

What more can be said about this chase day that hasn’t already been said? Well, a whole bunch, given that today’s activity was run-of-the-mill and… [Read More]