The GFS model is forecasting a fairly juicy storm system headed for the Mid-Atlantic this coming weekend, which should help alleviate the recent dry spell. Ahead of it the warm air and moisture streaming northward from the Gulf of Mexico look to …
The SPC has issued a very rare Day 2 High Risk for severe weather in the Plains on Saturday. This could be a major tornado outbreak there and folks living in Oklahoma, Kansas, and surrounding areas should be on the alert. Being on a Saturda…
Guess Amarillo would have been a good place to spend last night…lucky guess on my part in the last post! Tomorrow, Dodge City KS is the target.
Uh-oh, watch out in Chunky and Gluck Texas! This storm is in the panhandle of Texas, about 30 miles north of Amarillo. That’s about 3 hours west of my original target for today’s chasing. Oh well…tomorrow looks likes ano…
Monday’s initial target of Hammon OK would have worked as a starting point as the two storms of the day formed roughly 60 miles north of there near Woodward, producing at least one confirmed tornado. For Tuesday I’d start in Clinton OK, expecting…
Two storms in NW Oklahoma both with hook echoes. Not far from my original chase target for today!
It’s Easter Sunday and I realize most folks have other things on their minds and hearts…but with the upcoming setup in the Plains this week I decided it was time to begin practicing target area forecasts for next month’s stormchase out that way. The…
After squeezing in one March chase the first half of April is lining up to be a typical storm chase denial month. I’ve had this happen several times before here in northern Virginia, scoring a productive chase or two in March and then being pretty muc…
Finally…I got out and chased a real live 2012 (visible) thunderstorm! Based on mesoscale models I had planned to head out in late afternoon to catch storms that looked to form and move southward into my chase region after 5 p.m. Nature had other id…
The SPC Day 3 convective outlook has at least some potential for severe storms nearby:True, the overall setup – with a weak cold front due to pass through the Mid-Atlantic that evening – doesn’t hold a lot of potential. Forecast CAPE (instability meas…
