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“Throwed rolls” and supercells

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Jun 5th, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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…



Curses, foiled again!

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Jun 4th, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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…



June 2: A supercell kind of day

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Jun 2nd, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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…



June 1st – A decent day in the panhandles

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Jun 1st, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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…



May 29 after dark tornado intercept video

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • May 31st, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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…



Today’s result: not a strikeout, but maybe a sacrifice fly

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • May 31st, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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…



Exhausted but exhilarated in Oklahoma

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • May 30th, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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…



Monday morning departure for second Hokie Stormchase crew

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • May 27th, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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…



A chase!

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • May 22nd, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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…



One year ago today: the Joplin tornado and the Hokie Stormchasers intercept in Iowa

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • May 22nd, 2012 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

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 …