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First Virginia SPC "Marginal Risk" issued today

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Nov 6th, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Today marks the first issuance of the new “Marginal Risk” category for severe storms here in Virginia. The Storm Prediction Center instituted their new five risk level system last month. The low-topped convective line that blasted across northern …



First Virginia SPC "Marginal Risk" issued today

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Nov 6th, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Today marks the first issuance of the new “Marginal Risk” category for severe storms here in Virginia. The Storm Prediction Center instituted their new five risk level system last month. The low-topped convective line that blasted across northern …



First Virginia SPC “Marginal Risk” issued today

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Nov 6th, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Today marks the first issuance of the new “Marginal Risk” category for severe storms here in Virginia. The Storm Prediction Center instituted their new five risk level system last month. The low-topped convective line that blasted across northern …



Four year anniversary of a fruitful late October chase

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Oct 27th, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Four years ago today a strong cold front triggered severe storms across the Mid-Atlantic that resulted in the SPC issuing this probabilistic outlook graphic:This, in turn, led to the following storm reports from that day:Having followed the progress of…



Four year anniversary of a fruitful late October chase

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Oct 27th, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Four years ago today a strong cold front triggered severe storms across the Mid-Atlantic that resulted in the SPC issuing this probabilistic outlook graphic:This, in turn, led to the following storm reports from that day:Having followed the progress of…



Four year anniversary of a fruitful late October chase

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Oct 27th, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Four years ago today a strong cold front triggered severe storms across the Mid-Atlantic that resulted in the SPC issuing this probabilistic outlook graphic:This, in turn, led to the following storm reports from that day:Having followed the progress of…



"See Text" goes away today

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Oct 22nd, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Today the Storm Prediction Center shifted to its new five tiered convective outlook system. In doing so the fabled “See Text” category has disappeared. Thus I felt it my civic duty to share photos of a couple of Virginia storms that I’ve intercepted un…



“See Text” goes away today

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Oct 22nd, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Today the Storm Prediction Center shifted to its new five tiered convective outlook system. In doing so the fabled “See Text” category has disappeared. Thus I felt it my civic duty to share photos of a couple of Virginia storms that I’ve intercepted un…



"See Text" goes away today

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Oct 22nd, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Today the Storm Prediction Center shifted to its new five tiered convective outlook system. In doing so the fabled “See Text” category has disappeared. Thus I felt it my civic duty to share photos of a couple of Virginia storms that I’ve intercepted un…



A not-so-successful day

By From http://stormsrus.blogspot.com/ • Oct 14th, 2014 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

After checking radar this morning and taking a quick peek at the short term models I voted to go all in for chasing today…and bag tomorrow morning. It looked to me that the main line was going to come thru a couple hours earlier than I’d originally t…