I had little inclination to chase today as the parameters didn’t look favorable for anything interesting but Mother Nature had other ideas. When storms fired in North Carolina under a severe thunderstorm watch they moved north and east into reachable c…

After blowing a good chase opportunity Wednesday afternoon June 4th I was permitted a reprise when the main convection arrived near sundown. Tornado watches had been issued west of Roanoke but I was still surprised when one was issued for our immediate…

I really didn’t hold out hope for chasing this afternoon but I did bite on a line of cells that was pivoting northeast across the area. I watched radar for a while and decided the line was holding its own so I rolled down the driveway to target the sou…

Rats! I was looking forward to coming off the VT Hokie Stormchase and jumping into chasing here in Virginia. The first half of June is normally fairly active convectively in the Old Dominion but so far things don’t look promising. Each successive model…

We began the day in Rankin TX having spent the night in the most expensive and worst quality hotel of the trip. The oil boom has driven prices thru the roof in many small Plains towns and this was a prime example. Fortunately none of that affected the …

Realizing that this could be the last day to chase given the location and time constraints for this chase we went all out today. In baseball parlance we swung for the fence and wound up hitting a triple…three separate supercells, that is.Starting fro…

The morning began the same way the previous day had with a mesoscale convective system soaking us as we loaded our gear into the vans. We fled west from Colorado City TX to eastern sections of New Mexico to climb back into the sunshine. We found some c…

Last night in Clovis NM I awoke a number of times to bright lightning and booming peals of thunder, usually music to a stormchaser’s ears Yesterday’s storms had coalesced into a mesoscale convective system (MCS) that poured rain down across a wide area…

We didn’t really skip chasing today but we did decide to take it easy and not zoom down the road to reach a chase target several hours away. After 5 straight days of traveling and chasing – and touching 13 states – today’s setup didn’t look enticing en…

Whew! I’m not sure I can capture all that happened today but here’s at least a brief summary The setup didn’t look favorable today for supercells in our target area of eastern New Mexico but storms were abundant. We rolled south out of Lamar CO this mo…