Due to some flipflops in the models the forecast for our weekend is much better than it seemed earlier this week. The system in the Gulf of Mexico is being shoved westward and will now enter the U.S. mainland via the Mississippi River valley instead …
Tried to post this directly but wasn’t successful, so here’s the link for a shaky hand held video of a rotating Kansas wallcloud taken during our 15 May chase. It’s sped up 4x. (This is why I use a monopod mount for the videocamera most of the time.)…
A few vidcaps from just south of the approaching squall line from a no-name dirt road in extreme northern Oklahoma. I labeled the last three CG explosions because that’s what they look like in the video.
I’m finally back from stormchasing out west and can focus a bit more on local weather, altho’ things are rather quiet this week. The biggest news is the cool weather that started this week off. A relatively cool and dry airmass has spread over the Ea…
Now back home it seems like this chase was a long time ago; in fact it was just yesterday! We did start out in Pratt watching updrafts build along the approaching cold front, and then began leap-frogging east and south to stay ahead of the growing sto…
Currently sitting in a hotel in the northern portion of OKC while the line of storms we chased all afternoon finally catches up. The outflows from this line were incredible, with reports of 70 mph winds in some of the areas we passed through. I took …
Currently near Pratt KS, almost underneath the cold front. Updrafts going up quickly, so cap must be breaking. We’re heading east and will turn south to stay ahead of the NE/SW oriented line and watch as the storms fire.UPDATETornado watch issued for…
It’s official; we’re targeting Pratt as our epicenter of convective mayhem today. The models and local forecasts are all calling for the cap to break between 1300 and 1600 local time today in southern and central KS, and the convective potential and s…
This is an enhanced version of the possible powerflash vidcap in my previous post, showing that the feature indeed is very bright. This could be video evidence of a tornado in the distance: possible, but not definite.My son and I have a standing agree…
Since the severe stuff was to be in west central TX today and central KS tomorrow we decided to not yoyo up and down I-35 and instead headquartered here in downtown Wichita for the day. The downtown area has been revitalized and is a very pleasant pla…
