Central Plains: 9/7
September 7th was an interesting severe weather setup across the central Plains. It was fairly complex from the start, several days out, but even leading up to the night before, there were uncertainties with...
Author: Quincy
Iowa Storms: 9/6
Thunderstorms developed across western Iowa during the afternoon on September 6th. Although a pair of supercells began to show rotation, storms tended to merge into line segments into the evening. Severe thunderstorm reports were...
Labor Day Severe Threat
Morning observations placed a surface low over central Kansas with a frontal boundary draped northeastward into lower Missouri Valley. Winds along and just north of the boundary were out of the east. Along and...
Sept. 4th-7th Severe Threats
I think this update is at least marginally supported by the expected setups coming through the Labor Day holiday weekend. I want to stress that each of these four days is looking like relatively...
Ohio Storm Chase 8/23
Sunday was an impromptu storm chase up to the Lower Great Lakes region. I was very much on the fence about making the 10-hour drive to the general target area, but once again, just...
Storm Footage and More: 8/9
On the heels of a conditional tornado threat, a setup with more widespread severe thunderstorm activity was likely on August 9th. I stayed in Omaha the night before, as I knew there would be a...
Elk Creek, NE Tornado 8/8
A long, three day weekend with a severe threat across the mid-Missouri Valley gave me the opportunity to get back on the road to chase. I left Atlanta around 4 a.m. that day and...
Supercells in Massachusetts
Multiple supercell thunderstorms moved through central and eastern Massachusetts this afternoon. Some of the storms prompted tornado warnings and there were multiple significant severe weather reports as a result. Some of the thunderstorms originated...
Tennessee Valley
On the heels of chasing in the Midwest two days ago, I headed south into the Tennessee Valley yesterday. There was a marginal tornado threat, particularly from far southern Kentucky, down into Tennessee. The...
Illinois Doesn’t Pull Through
I dropped southeast through the Midwest today, after starting the morning in Minnesota, the target was once again northern Illinois. The area has been targeted many times this season, with some days ending up...
12AM Update for July 13th Event
The models were virtually all wrong with the southward extent of convection Sunday evening. Models, generally, blew up storms over far southern MN into IA, but there’s been pretty much nothing there. There’s one...
Nature’s Fireworks
Mother Nature provided some fireworks for the fourth of July across the northern Plains. A few severe thunderstorms developed late in the afternoon, persisting into the evening hours. While storms initially took a while...
High Plains Getaway
I’ve been spending a few days in the central High Plains before I eventually move northeast for more storm chasing opportunities. Today was a relatively low-end day in terms of severe threats, but even...
Tornadoes Near Kansas City
Just three days after a tornado in portions of St. Louis, it looked like the Kansas City area was going to be under a tornado threat. Again, storm chasing is thrilling and exciting, but...
Wild Day in Missouri
Today’s storm chase felt like a tale of two stories to me. It started in northeastern Missouri with several discrete thunderstorms firing. For whatever reason, aside from the ongoing joke of “2015ing,” most of...
Photos from Colorado
Thunderstorms developed during the afternoon of June 18th, 2015 across eastern Colorado. Although these storms stayed predominantly non-severe, they showed rotation late in their life cycle.