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Convective setup for Christmas Eve

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Dec 23rd, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

As a sequel to my last post here is the new SPC Day 2 convective outlook for Christmas Eve:This morning’s (12/23) NAM run is the most bullish on this. It is showing SBCAPE values for southside Virginia near 200 j/kg with bulk shear values around 200 kt…


Convective setup for Christmas Eve

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Dec 23rd, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

As a sequel to my last post here is the new SPC Day 2 convective outlook for Christmas Eve:This morning’s (12/23) NAM run is the most bullish on this. It is showing SBCAPE values for southside Virginia near 200 j/kg with bulk shear values around 200 kt…


Storms-R-Us 2014-12-20 12:58:00

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Dec 20th, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Anybody for a high shear / low CAPE setup on Christmas Eve?Skew T sounding near Danville VAAnybody?


Storms-R-Us 2014-12-20 07:58:00

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Dec 20th, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Anybody for a high shear / low CAPE setup on Christmas Eve?Skew T sounding near Danville VAAnybody?


Storms-R-Us 2014-12-20 12:58:00

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Dec 20th, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Anybody for a high shear / low CAPE setup on Christmas Eve?Skew T sounding near Danville VAAnybody?


Potential poster photo from 15 Jul 2014 chase

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Dec 16th, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Each winter over the past several years I have chosen two storm chase photos that I’ve taken and have printed and framed them to hang in my “chase gallery” (one wall of the garage). Typically one picture is from a Great Plains chase and the other is fr…


Potential poster photo from 15 Jul 2014 chase

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Dec 16th, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Each winter over the past several years I have chosen two storm chase photos that I’ve taken and have printed and framed them to hang in my “chase gallery” (one wall of the garage). Typically one picture is from a Great Plains chase and the other is fr…


Potential poster photo from 15 Jul 2014 chase

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Dec 16th, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Each winter over the past several years I have chosen two storm chase photos that I’ve taken and have printed and framed them to hang in my “chase gallery” (one wall of the garage). Typically one picture is from a Great Plains chase and the other is fr…


Hailstorms of Apr 2 2005

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Dec 4th, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local
Given that the 2014 chase season is officially over I needed something to help stave off SDS (supercell deprivation syndrome) so I’m using the blog to republish this Fredericksburg area chase account from 9 1/2 yrs ago:
“April chasing opened with a bang on the second day of the month when the Storm Prediction Center outlooked eastern Virginia for a slight risk of severe storms anda 5% tornado probability, a significant figure of merit for the Mid-Atlantic. The first action of the day was focused on a warm front lifting northward as I chased east of Fredericksburg during the late morning, catching only a glimpse of a small shelf cloud. After lunch I rendezvoused with my son in Thornburg where we parked his car and consolidated our gear into mine. From there we rolled west and then south on Virginia Route 208 underneath a low overcast, hoping that an approaching upper level pool of cold air would provide the impetus for some strong updrafts.
We covered only five miles of two lane macadam before breaking into brilliant sunshine, immediately glimpsing hard-knuckled convection boiling up to the south in response to the aforementioned cold pool. Our interception course led us across Lake Anna into Louisa county, and somewhere south of the metropolis of Mineral we gloried in our first pea-sized hailfall of the day. Continuing east and then south to stay with the most active cells we enthusiastically enjoyed three more hailfalls, one of which occurred with the sun shining and thus enabling the following cool photo:
Photo by Nathan White
In an attempt to keep up with the best convection we looped through the town of Louisa while tracking a feature that appeared at first to be a ragged wall cloud but was really another shelf cloud from an outflow-dominant storm. Not having mobile internet and thus without radar access we then miscalculated the convective line’s movement, thinking it was headed due north when it was quickly steaming northeastward. As a result we wound up out of position to catch up with a very interesting lowering at the back of the southernmost cell. However, we were afforded a great view of the overall storm structure and witnessed multiple rainbows while thoroughly enjoying ourselves.
The 5% tornado probability didn’t verify for us as we saw no funnels and heard no tornado reports but we really didn’t care. This early April chase proved to be one of the bright spots of an otherwise abysmal 2005 Virginia chase season. Serendipities come when they come!”

Hailstorms of Apr 2 2005

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Dec 4th, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Given that the 2014 chase season is officially over I needed something to help stave off SDS (supercell deprivation syndrome) so I’m using the blog to republish this Fredericksburg area chase account from 9 1/2 yrs ago:”April chasing opened with a bang…


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