I did head out yesterday afternoon under the SPC’s “See Text” for Virginia but only half-heartedly as I didn’t want to range very far nor very late. Thus I wound up traversing parts of Pittylsvania, Campbell, Bedford, and Franklin counties withou…
Well, it wasn’t really three chases in one but there was the potential for it as three separate storm complexes crossed my chase target in Pittsylvania and Halifax counties on Sunday July 28th. With a pre-frontal trough firing storms followed by …
The 0Z NAM is pessimistic about strong storm potential Saturday but the 0Z GFS is more bullish. Here’s the CAPE (instability) forecast graphic for 21Z Saturday:The helicity – and thus shear – values are also a bit stronger on the GFS solution whi…
With the absence of shear the main thing to watch is CAPE (instability) this time of year. Even so the situation yields itself to popup storms that tend to form and rain out within 30-45 minutes, rendering storm chasing a euphemism for “Whack-a-M…
Alerted by early afternoon radar trends I rolled down the driveway at 2:30 pm and headed toward Lynchburg, stopping in Bedford to gas up the chasemobile and recheck radar. At that point neither the cells I had been watching nor the environment th…
Tomorrow there is a small (30%) chance of storms south of I-64 and east of the Blue Ridge mountains. CAPE is okay (>2500) but shear is almost non-existent while storm motion is very slow…I could probably chase on foot and keep up. …
Yesterday marked one month from our return from the second Hokie Stormchase trip. While it was a very busy 3+ weeks with a lot of mileage under our belts the urge to continue chasing the convective monsters of the Plains remains. The collec…
The title refers to the fact that I somehow managed to chase between two line segments today, staying on the southern “Tail End Charley” cell of the northern segment before the line closed up east of Halifax. But I’m getting ahead of myself…Eve…
This is a compilation of video from the storm I intercepted about 4 miles north of Charlotte Courthouse yesterday, June 26th (despite the wrong date I give on the last video part). Nothing spectacular but it was a good spot from which to observe …
The blogpost title seems to be the 2013 theme. It was no surprise that today’s Slight Risk convection lined out quickly as there wasn’t much shear to foster discrete cells. What was a bit disconcerting was that the storms lined out before c…
