Tornado Chasing
Chasecation 2015 Day 14 – Another bust saved by lightning
The Kansas/Nebraska border was an almost-perfect play, except the atmospheric cap that had been absent all spring suddenly decided to…
Tornado Chasing
Chasecation 2015 Day 13 – Another state, another supercell
Today took us to Wyoming to take another stab at getting some upslope tornado action. What was originally thought to…
Tornado Climatology Tornado Maps
Here’s where tornadoes typically form in June across the United States
June is typically the final month of peak tornado activity in any given year. What it often lacks in huge…
Tornado Chasing
Chasecation 2015 Day 12 – Incredible lightning show
I don’t throw superlatives into my discussion often, so take note of that fact when I tell you that today’s…
Tornado Chasing
Chasecation 2015 Day 11 – Winding through the Black Hills
Today brought us to the Rapid City, South Dakota area on the northern end of the Black Hills. A brilliant…
Tornado Chasing
Chasecation 2015 Day 10 – Supercells on the KS/CO border
Today we found ourselves tracking south out of North Platte, Nebraska to get to an area that had good convergence…
Tornado Must Reads Tornado Outbreaks
May 31, 1985: A tornado outbreak out of place
You might expect a volley of violent tornadoes in the Plains or the South, but not in Pennsylvania and surrounds.…
Tornado Chasing
Chasecation 2015 Day 9 – Time for some northern Plains action
We spent today traveling north to Nebraska to position ourselves for the next week of storm chasing, which looks to…
Tornado Chasing
Chasecation 2015 Day 8 – Missing the “fluke”‘ tornado
There was a very pretty tornado in eastern New Mexico today… and we missed it. There were signs of having…
Tornado Chasing
Chasecation 2015 Day 7 – The curious horse
Today’s chase was pretty mundane overall, with tornadic storms hard to come by as we traveled across southeastern Colorado and…
Tornado Chasing
Chasecation 2015 Day 6 – Multiple tornadoes near Canadian, Texas
Aside from terrain issues, it was a very good day for chasing tornadoes as a cyclic supercell dropped multiple twisters…
Tornado Chasing
Chasecation 2015 Day 5 – Brief tornado in western Oklahoma
After patiently, but not so patiently, waiting for storms to form in the secondary target of west-central Oklahoma, an outflow…