Update 1:15 pm CDT 6/5/12: Paducah KY National Weather Service office has confirmed both an EF-2 tornado and a 100 mph+ downburst on one of the supercells we were watching yesterday evening. Tragically it also caused 3 fatalities northeast of Sik…
Sunday June 3rd looked promising to the Hokie Stormchasers as the forecast models, several NWS forecast offices, and the Storm Prediction Center all pointed to a significant potential for supercells and some tornadoes in the eastern Kansas / Oklahoma r…
Believe it or not we’re staying our 4th night in a row in the same hotel in Guymon OK. (That’s a record for the Hokie Stormchasers.) We rolled west and north this morning, winding up in the far southeastern corner of Colorado in a very nice…
We are currently spending our third night in a row (very unusual) here in Guymon, a town in the Oklahoma panhandle. Today we chased storms west and south under a setup that was less than ideal but still provided some picturesque views. At o…
The link below is to the video I took during the Hokie Stormchasers’ after dark tornado intercept near Union City OK on May 29th. I managed to lighten it a bit with some simple video editing tools but it still looks much darker than the view that…
I have to admit, I was a bit wary when I found out the Storm Prediction Center had posted a Moderate Risk for severe storms for Wednesday. I haven’t had the best of luck with Moderate Risks and unfortunately today was no exception. To sum i…
After yesterday’s 860 mile journey from Blacksburg to western Arkansas, and after this morning’s 6 hour jaunt to our target area we Hokies were weary travelers…at least until the storms started firing! We had planned to play a warm front up nor…
The second Hokie Stormchase crew is heading out for parts west on Monday, Memorial Day. At the moment it appears that we’ll be targeting southwestern Oklahoma for a late day chase on Tuesday, necessitating a long drive Monday to position ourselve…
Although we didn’t see anything spectacular from this evening’s pulse storms my son and I chased together for the first time in over 3 years. We headed east from Roanoke to intercept cells traversing the U.S. 29 and 501 corridor but were frustrat…
A year ago today the Hokie Stormchasers were celebrating a successful tornado intercept near Marengo Iowa when the news of the devastating Joplin MO tornado came over the airways. It immediately sobered us as the bad news kept coming. Even …
