As I’m sitting here playing with my laptop a cell has been growing just west of Fredericksburg and is beginning to rumble, drop rain, and (by radar) spit out some hail. Forecasts for today talked about the potential for this as the upper level cold ai…

My son had informed me via cellphone that another storm was trailing in the first one’s footsteps, so I retraced my path back down to Ware’s Crossroads and then motored to the southeast side of Mineral to get ahead of it. It was impressive looking on …

Given today’s SPC forecast of yet another Moderate Risk for our region I was torn between being excited and dubious about the day’s chasing potential. However, I did succumb to the urge to check things out and was able to leave work early, just before…

This is the best photo (significantly retouched) showing one of the features just ahead of the heavy rainshaft that came along with yesterday’s storms that rolled through the area just after I got back into town. If I had been a half-hour earlier, if…

It looks like I picked a good weather week to be out of town on a business trip, but I just missed what looked like a decent chase this afternoon as I arrived back in town around 5:30 pm. I did see a decent shelf cloud to the southeast and snapped a c…

Given the heat and humidity outdoors I looked forward to spending Saturday afternoon inside editing and posting video from past chases and did just that. Upon finishing that effort I crawled into “my” chair in the family room and briefly dozed off, aw…

Given today’s high temperatures and humidities I decided to huddle inside and play with editing some videos from this spring’s chases. This clip is from the wall cloud I tracked in eastern Orange county. I darkened the image to show more detail, and …

The two vidcaps above are from storm #2 in King George county on June 4th. Note the feature to the left of the light pole; that is part of the wall cloud beginning to coalesce and provide evidence of rotation. The video clip is a portion of what I sh…

As I headed home I could see yet another darkened sky to the west. My son had jingled my cellphone and asked me if I had seen anything good, mentioning that another series of storms was coming our way. Tuning in to my trusty weather radio I began hea…

After a quick dinner I noticed a storm on radar near the town of Orange. After a couple of radar updates the storm began to split in two and my internal antenna began to twitch. Given the instability and rotational parameters what I had just witnesse…