This chase started with my son and I checking out the “Tail-end Charlie” cell in a line traversing Halifax county. Then we doubled back west to catch a storm in Pittsylvania County that dropped a wall cloud and eventually became tornado-warned near Ric…
The middle part of May chasing in Virginia was interrupted by chasing in the Plains with the Hokie Stormchasers. The day we got back – May 23 – storms rolled thru the Roanoke Valley and I literally went in our back yard to watch and photograph. T…
I was in northern VA Saturday May 11th but had my chase gear with me even tho’ the setup was marginal. I wound up chasing three separate storms – all sporting wallclouds – in three separate locales: Amelia Courthouse, Blackstone, and Lynchburg. &…
An upper level low pinwheeled storms in a northwesterly direction across the Old Dominion this day in May. After several redirections that involved rerouting from the original target of the western Richmond suburbs to wandering around in the Appomattox…
I don’t have much documentation on the May 6th chase other than a few photos and a video of a cell west of Greensboro NC. The video shows a bit of shear evident between different cloud heights around this cell but not much happened other than the…
Updraft near Ferrum CollegeEver have a 50/50 chance and pick the wrong one? That’s what happened this day when I chose to chase the southern segment of a convective line and it dissipated while the northern segment grew. Oh well…
The first successful chase of 2013 became a much more complex event than I’d originally planned. While on my way to Gretna to pick up my son and chase partner I received a phone call from a Richmond TV station. They wanted me to chase the setup f…
Anxious to kick off the 2013 chase season my son and I dived south into North Carolina in hopes of catching a storm in a marginal setup. By the time we maneuvered our way thru unfamiliar territory and found a – rare – spot to view the updraft we …
It’s now officially post-Thanksgiving so I am starting the year in review. This photo was snapped January 30th on the first chase of this calendar year as a convective line swept into the Roanoke valley. There was no lightning, thunder, or hail t…
Besides the fact that today is Veterans Day – my personal bookend to chase season – a more obvious hint that convective storm chasing for 2013 is complete is an Arctic blast headed our way tonight. Despite the drastic change in air mass behind this nex…
