Mark Ellinwood

Chasecation 2017, Day 5: How low flow can you go?

We found the storms of the day in North Dakota today, which produced some interesting structure and lightning.

7 years ago

Chasecation 2017, Day 4: Where all the storms at?

With little to no storm action in sight today, we headed north to get in position for Friday's chase.

7 years ago

Chasecation 2017, Day 3: Blobfest yields okay day

We were not expecting much from today, but we did not get our wish of a happy mesoscale accident.

7 years ago

Chasecation 2017, Day 2: Just trying to not bust

Today we ventured into Kansas to see if we could find the least mundane storm of the day.

7 years ago

Chasecation 2017, Day 1: Positioning for Tuesday

We used today as another travel day to get ourselves ready for chasing on Tuesday.

7 years ago

Chasecation 2017, Day 0: On the road again

The U.S. Tornadoes crew is REUNITED for 2017! We leave MD today to begin our ~2 week journey to wherever…

7 years ago

Tornado Threat Forecast: May 23-29, 2017

For late May, it's harder to get quieter than this. Aside from Friday and Saturday, tornado threats over the next…

8 years ago

U.S. Tornadoes on the WeatherBrains podcast!

Last night, James and Mark were guests on WeatherBrains, a podcast dedicated to talking about all things weather.

8 years ago

Tornado Threat Forecast: May 18-24, 2017

Today and Friday will be active across the Plains and into the western Midwest, with dozens of tornadoes possible.

8 years ago

Tornado Threat Forecast: May 16-22, 2017

Fairly strong tornado potential today through Thursday before a much quieter pattern takes over this weekend into early next week.

8 years ago

Tornado Threat Forecast: May 11-17, 2017

Aside from today, it looks fairly quiet through the weekend. Then things start to pick up at the start of…

8 years ago

Tornado Threat Forecast: May 9-15, 2017

A slow-but-steady mid-May tornado threat appears to be in the works, mostly favoring the normal May targets of the central…

8 years ago