After a shortened trip the Hokie Stormchasers are back home. The weather pattern was just not productive for the May chase team this year as we left a couple days later than planned and came home a couple days earlier. The moisture from the…
In a word…we punted today. Originally we had planned to chase yesterday in western Nebraska and then head north to catch storms today in South Dakota. However, after we had looked at the model solutions for tomorrow we realized that…
We started out the day in York Nebraska with a target of North Platte with an eye toward cruising northward from there toward the South Dakota border. However conditions and models convinced us to turn south at North Platte, and we wound up inter…
We left Danville Illinois Wednesday morning and motored westward all day long, winding up in York Nebraska tonight. The crew of each of the 3 vehicles spent most of the day alternately sleeping (except for us drivers!) and reviewing models to ref…
Yes, the Hokie Stormchasers left Blacksburg this morning and headed for parts west. At the moment we are in a hotel in Danville Illinois as an interim stop on our way to the Plains for the 2012 stormchase trip. We left behind – begrudgingly…
Given the “quiescent” (a term being tossed around a lot by the Storm Prediction Center) weather pattern in the Plains for the early part of next week our departure has been pushed back to Tuesday. This will allow us to save some time and money by…
The 2012 Hokie Stormchase is currently down to mere days before departure. The buzz will be getting louder as this week progresses and we iterate on (a) when to depart Blacksburg and (b) what direction to head based on the weather model solutions…
Today’s setup appears to be a bit more promising than recent days, but if I get to chase it will be by default as I’ll be on the road anyway. I will have cameras and radar access available so if anything chaseable pops up I’ll get on it. Th…
A year ago today I was doing two important things: (1) It was my very last week before retiring from work and (2) I was out storm chasing during the biggest April tornado outbreak in U.S. history.This summary article from the NWS Blacksburg offic…
Every April I anticipate several good Virginia chases and pretty much every year I’m disappointed. As the chase season revs up in the southern Great Plains I naturally think the same thing will begin here in central and northern Virginia and it j…
