If I was so inclined I’d be paralleling the southern cell of this complex on Rte 20 in Orange county. It looks like a beauty, with some rotation indicated on doppler at the southern edge as well as some hail. Bet there’s a wallcloud there…but I don…
Now that July 2009 is in the weather books it still startles me that July is the month that Virginia experiences the maximum number of tornadoes. One would think that April or May would provide the most, and certainly the strongest tornadoes tend to h…
The porta-pottie in the lower right corner symbolizes where things went for today’s chase opportunities. We were under an SPC-issued Slight Risk for severe weather with conditions similar to Wednesday’s setup, but Mother Nature didn’t cooperate today….
The SPC Day 2 text discussion and at least one forecast model indicates that we could have a repeat of the storms yesterday, with a decent chance of tornadic activity in the area. The hitch for me is that I have dinner and movie plans for tomorrow eve…
This is a video clip showing the funnel and wall cloud I observed just before 6:00 pm today. I’ve edited the clip and darkened it to show the feature a bit better. It actually lasted longer than I remembered!
When the SPC indicated a 5% tornado probability for our region I immediately checked the models and verified the chance. Thus when cells began firing this afternoon I was able to head out to attempt a mid-afternoon intercept of one in eastern King Geo…
Here we are at the end of July and summertime heat and humidity have finally made more than a passing appearance in our area. With dewpoints in the low to mid 70’s and high temperatures at or near 90 degrees we have more typical Fredericksburgian (is …
This was representative of the radar all afternoon: storms to the north, storms to the south, and none reachable from my chosen departure point (Culpeper). Oh, I never made it there as I jumped on a lone storm that exploded over Spotsylvania county …
Today wasn’t supposed to be a chase day. The upper level support via a shortwave trough was to stay far to the north, with a cap in place further south in our area. However, as witnessed by the rain and thunder outside my window right now, the models…
Okay, I caved and decided to intercept the short line of storms shown in the radar view in my previous post. Since it was moving basically eastward I saw that I could intercept the south end of the line by heading down to the Thornburg vicinity, so th…
