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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Chasecation 2015 Day 4 – From wedge to wimpy After the mile-wide EF-1 wedge tornado last night, we were hoping for a second miracle storm in Kansas to save…
Chasecation 2015 Day 3 – Large tornadoes after dark Day 3 has us spending another night in southwestern Kansas after a long day concluded with large tornadoes northeast of…