These are all views of the rain free base of the cell I chased today as it approaches my location from the west. The updraft this base was part of was most definitely rotating, so it assuredly kept my attention.Trying to produce a wallcloud!Getting cl…
Wall cloud over eastern KG county.Nice structure shot.Gathering scud.Funnel over eastern Stafford county.Chased a cell on the cold front today that had a nice mesocyclone signature and rotating rain free base that literally passed over my head…I wasn…
After reviewing the video that was rolling as the wallcloud approached Dahlgren this afternoon I remembered that I may have witnessed a funnel but wasn’t sure. (A disadvantage of solo chasing is that there’s only one pair of eyes to watch everything.)…
As I indicated in my previous post I had set up shop on the banks of the Potomac to watch the northern complex pass by over Maryland when the southern cell shown above flared and exhibited this Tornado Velocity Signature (TVS) on radar. Not being able…
I’m sitting on the southern bank of the Potomac at the Rte 301 bridge watching as a large TS complex streams southeast across the river over Maryland. Southern MD is not my favorite place to chase so I’m staying put for a while. The only other chasea…
Well, Friday does still look promising but tomorrow looks even better now. As shown above the CAPE (instability) is decent, but added to that is a cold frontal passage tomorrow afternoon accompanied by upper level winds and temperatures that are favor…
Given this depiction of high CAPE values (measure of instability) in our region Friday afternoon, all it would take for some really good storms would be a trigger to initiate lift (provided by a trough/cold front forecast to come thru) and some upper l…
This was the radar depiction about the time I decided to head out for a chase yesterday. SPC had our area under a severe TS watch, and this line of storms was plowing into very juicy air over the Virginia Piedmont. An hour later all of this activity …
After this morning’s storms I wasn’t certain how much time the atmosphere would need to recuperate, so I hedged my bets by taking a couple hours off work and heading home to meet today’s chase partner, Jonas, of the local newspaper. We left for Culpep…
Based on this graphic from the SPC and looking at a couple of forecast models there may be some chasing coming this week. Tuesday (and likely Wednesday) looks like the instability and moisture that will be streaming back into our region will mix with …
