Wednesday, October 8, 2014

10/8/2014 Blood Moon

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Treated with a total lunar eclipse early this morning.  I was able to snap a few photos and enjoy the early fall crisp sky before my finge...
Sunday, July 13, 2014

6/23/2014 Cheyenne Ridge Supercell

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The Cheyenne Ridge provided initiation for convection on 6/23 in an environment with favorable directional shear and modest instability.  T...

6/21/2014 Mound City, SD Severe Convection

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6-21 featured a risk for severe weather along a weak convergence boundary in north central SD.  This was the first 'chase' day for ...
Wednesday, July 9, 2014

6/16/2014 Stanton/Pilger/Pender Tornadoes

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A fairly inactive 2014 for tornadoes was thrown for a spin on 6-16.  Piechota and I left northern Illinois by 6:30 AM with a broad target o...
Monday, July 7, 2014

6/14/2014 Nocturnal Thunderstorms near Sutton, NE

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After a disappointing day of sub-par convection, a northward moving rotating storm emerged near Sutton, NE on the evening of the 14th.  The ...

6/13/2014 Crook County, WY Tornadic Supercell

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6-13-14 featured a strengthening surface low-pressure with marginal dewpoints on the northern high plains.  We (Laura, Walker and I) sat nea...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

6/10/2014 Wyoming Wildscape

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I spent my birthday roaming around WY/SD in search of convection in a beautiful part of our country.  Luckily, we were served storms near De...
Monday, June 9, 2014

6/8/2014 Roswell to Carlsbad, NM Supercell

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Walker and I targeted eastern NM again in hopes of a repeat of Saturday's structure feast.  Mid/low clouds associated with overnight con...
Sunday, June 8, 2014

6/7/2014 Roswell, NM UFO

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We successfully found a spaceship UFO north of Roswell, NM on Saturday!  2014 has been the year of structure (and few tornadoes), but this s...

6/6/2014 Colfax County, NM Tornado

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Friday featured more upslope storms, this time initiating off of the Raton Mesa and the Sangre de Cristo mountains.  We targeted Clayton, NM...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

5/27/2014 Norfolk, CO Rainbow

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One of my best pictures from the COD trip came during a travel day!  We ran into this gem near Norfolk, CO, and had to stop the van to take ...

5/26/2014 Garden City, TX Supercell

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Chasing with COD Trip 3, we left Hobbs, NM, with an initial target near the Fort Stockton, TX area.  We once again dealt with an HP supercel...
Monday, May 26, 2014

5/25/2014 Supercell west of Hobbs, NM

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Thunderstorm lab day two of our CoD trip was a bust...er...just kidding! Our initial target was near Fort Stockton, TX.  As we drifted to t...
Sunday, May 25, 2014

5/24/2014 Evening convection northwest of Pecos, TX

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Saturday was my first chasing leading College of DuPage Trip 3. We awoke in SPS to a southward surging outflow boundary that ended up ruinin...