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 …
This wallcloud video has been sped up several times to show the rotation I was seeing yesterday in one manifestation of this repeating feature. Still don’t know if I actually witnessed a funnel from this location or if it was just scud.
Wow, that’s a lot of W’s! I’ve been busy posting over at StormsRUs due to the recent spate of chaseable weather and I’ve neglected this blog. We’ve had a lot of rain and wild weather this week, including the late night multihour storming Tuesday nigh…
Whew! Today was so eventful that it’s hard to convey what all happened. I was able to get away and head out early to the Culpeper vicinity, arriving there about 1500 as individual cells were beginning to swell. After some deliberation I took on the …
As I indicated in an earlier post the model progs for today appeared to hold a good potential for severity, and boy did it happen! As I write this an incredible lightning show is ongoing and even more severe cells are approaching the area. (I’m not c…
Closeups of 28 May funnel(s). Per a prior posting I suspect this was actually a tornado (ground touchdown) given that the visual funnel stretched at least 2/3rds of the way down. But I saw no debris underneath this feature, so I have no proof.Meanwhi…
