Vittorio's Voyages
A diary of storm chases, trips, and weather events
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
6/15/2015 Elk Mountain, WY Tornadoes
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We awoke in Cheyenne to an 'interesting' risk for severe storms in the interior of WY. Moisture was pooling on the west side of the...
Monday, June 15, 2015
6/14/2015 Meriden, WY Transient Supercell
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We departed west out of Omaha on Sunday with an eye on (a) cold front / pseudo surging outflow that was stalling around the I-80 corridor i...
Friday, June 12, 2015
6/5/2015 Brief Tornado near Kirk, CO
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6/5 looked promising for tornadoes across portions of eastern CO. We started the day targeting the Castle Rock, CO area, assuming th...
Friday, June 5, 2015
6/4/2015 Atwood to Colby, KS Supercell and Sky Fire
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The atmosphere put on a remarkable non-tornadic show yesterday in northwest Kansas. Most of the day, model and observations pointed to the...
6/3/2015 Wheatland, WY Transient Supercell
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6-3 featured impressive thermodynamic profiles on the high plains terrain of Wyoming. We met up with the CoD crew and launched an afternoon...
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
6/2/2015 Gurley, NE LP Supercell
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By 5 PM, I had thought the day was a bust for us. We opted to play the further south target, despite dry air and a strong cap. It wasn...
6/1/2015 Piedmont, SD Hail
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Monday was a day I will never forget. We awoke in Goodland, KS, and made the long journey north to the Badlands in anticipation of severe s...
Monday, June 1, 2015
5/31/2015 Wray, CO to Kanorado, KS Convection
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Sunday featured a broad area of marginal parameters for severe storms across the High Plains. Our morning target was the CO/NE/KS border, j...
Sunday, May 31, 2015
May Verification and June Forecast 2015
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First, let's recap the May forecast : This May will finish with something close to 401 preliminary tornado reports (I will upd...
Saturday, May 23, 2015
5/22/2015 County Rd. J. Colorado Storms
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Been quiet over here lately. The weather pattern has not exactly cooperated with our trip the past few days, but Friday yielded a photogeni...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
5/18/2015 Pecos, TX Supercell and Coyanosa, TX Flash Flooding
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Monday featured a well-mixed boundary layer with dewpoint depressions in the 30F range. While we did not think the environment was favorab...
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