After a chase in southern Kansas Sunday that included being on the storm that produced the Wichita tornado (we had pulled off that very cell prior to that because it was getting too close to the congested metropolitan area) the Hokie Stormchasers ta…

As Maxwell Smart used to say:  “Missed it by that much”…   We departed North Platte Nebraska this morning at 10 a.m. after our morning deliberations pushed us to target northern Kansas instead of staying in the Cornhusker state.&nbs…

The National Weather Service office in Dallas/Ft. Worth published their storm surveys today with a total of sixteen tornadoes in their area of responsibility.  “Our” storm – the Alvord/Wise county cell, produced an EF-0 tornado with an estimated p…

We began today in Conway AR knowing that we would be headed to the Wichita Falls TX area to chase given the setup and conditions.  After hours of pushing westward on I-40 we dove southwestward onto I-44 near Oklahoma City and wound up punching thr…

Instead of fighting to load videos here I have edited and uploaded a two part video of the rotating “mothership” mesocyclone and wall cloud I intercepted just west of Lynchburg while parked just off Rte 460.  I noticed this complex to my west had …

Today didn’t start out to be a major chase day…conditions were marginal and I couldn’t actually begin chasing until early afternoon.  But the weather has a mind of its own and I wound up chasing three separate storms today, the last two both sev…

This video – at eight times normal speed – was edited from my fixed video camera footage and is decidedly NOT high definition.  It was taken just after I’d witnessed and taken digital stills of a white funnel underneath the storm base.  When …

For some reason either Blogger or I was being stupid last night (probably both) and nothing would work right so I posted a mini-writeup for our May 6th chase over on the Virginia Storm Chasing page on Facebook.  The overall summary was that we wer…

The GFS has remained consistent over the past few days regarding instability on the east side of the cutoff low forecast to cross North Carolina.  This translates into the potential for storms in southeastern Virginia.  Here are today’s 12Z f…

At a time of year when chasers anticipate fast-moving weather systems and very dynamic conditions we are faced with a highly blocked pattern in which nothing is moving very fast.  While the upper Midwest deals with a May snowstorm(!!!) the East Co…