After yesterday’s rain/sleet/snowstorm I decided to keep up the old chase photo posts with this one.  Taken at Todd’s Tavern VA, the clump of trees in the foreground was 150 yards away and the tornado was just behind it.  You can see the rain…

This picture is from May 2002 during my first Tornado Alley chase.  A line of strong storms was approaching our position from the right side of the picture, and the resulting outflow created the two gustnadoes in the center of the photo as well as…

“Mothership” rotating wall cloud from 25 May 2004 chase, Spotsylvania county, Brock Road Elementary school parking lot.  Posted to relieve mid-winter SDS!!

I’ve been perusing pictures of past chases to keep up the spirits during the nadir that usually occurs this time of year.  It’s really not long until spring, but it seems so far away that storm chasing has become a distant memory.  I am keepi…

I don’t have a clue.  How’s that?  With the models performing as poorly as they have so far this winter here in Virginia I won’t even hazard a guess as to what this year’s chase season might look like here until we get a lot closer to spring….

The snowy weather we’ve been dealing with has occupied my weather thoughts recently, but I did have time to put together a spreadsheet that sums up my Virginia storm chasing experience over the 9 seasons from 2002 to 2010.  (Note that I said “Virg…

I don’t think I’ll publish this season’s results in book form as I have previous years.  There simply wasn’t enough action to put into manuscript form.  I summarized the season in a spreadsheet and discovered that I actually did spy five defi…

With this morning’s setup all three questions might apply.  I got up earlier than normal to check radar and found that by 5:30 a.m. a nice line of storms had already formed ahead of the cold front and was progressing northeastward at a leisurely c…

With this morning’s setup all three questions might apply.  I got up earlier than normal to check radar and found that by 5:30 a.m. a nice line of storms had already formed ahead of the cold front and was progressing northeastward at a leisurely c…

Are you kidding me?  Tomorrow morning is December 1st, and east of the Blue Ridge the Old Dominion is forecast for a 5-10% chance of tornadoes!!  You bet I’ll be out tomorrow morning to catch the FROPA just after 7 a.m.!  I’m keeping my …