Chasecation 2015

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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