I chose not to chase today but this complex of storms on radar near Lexington VA caught my eye:When I looped the image there were two different motion vectors apparent (the white arrows I’ve added). This complex was very slow moving and produced > 1…
After going thru my dashcam video captures from yesterday’s chase I put together a collage of the scenes. Each clip is labeled regarding what it shows and where – in general – it is located. Also each clip (as labeled) is sped up 4 times to show the mo…
After several days of cold air damming today’s approach of a digging upper level short wave promised to drag an old frontal boundary north and break us out of the gloom. That setup also held the potential for some decent shear near the wedge boundary a…
After processing and reviewing my non-HD dashcam video from yesterday’s (8/6/14) chase I am declaring the feature that I observed to be a possible funnel. (That’s less definite than a “probable” funnel…) Given the backlighting, the distance, and the …
With a cold front pressing southward today held at least a modicum of potential with CAPEs near 1000 and 0-6 km shear values over 30 kts. Thus I combed through the models looking for timing clues, watched radar, and eyeballed updrafts all around me. I …
Upon reviewing and speeding up my dashcam video from July 24th I realized that we may have missed a funnel underneath the original wallcloud. I sent the sped up video clip to NWS Blacksburg for them to review. After looking at the video and checking ra…
Given a steamy airmass over Virginia, a strong cold front approaching from the west, and significant upper level support providing plenty of shear I was very hopeful for a fruitful chase yesterday (Sunday 7/27). The only flies in the ointment I could s…
The strong cold front and upper level support that is at the leading edge of some very cool air for late July will first bring severe weather to the Mid-Atlantic. A possible (probable?) Mesoscale Convective System will cross West Virginia early tomorro…
Although I don’t think we chased under any severe watches today there was plenty of action that could (should?) have warranted a watch. After picking my son up in Gretna we wandered around Pittsylvania county for a while awaiting convection. We finally…
This is a photo of the ground-scraping wall cloud we witnessed from our position a few miles northeast of Yanceyville NC:Now, this is a velocity radar image at about the same time:See why we diverted from dinner to chase this last storm? Unfortunately …
