May 11, 2012 – Miscellaneous Items To Address…
It should’ve been at this point where I’d be all giddy about only being 2 days away from my first week off of work for chasing, but there’s been a slight change. The current weather pattern that we are in (and will be in for a few weeks it appears) doesn’t show much potential for severe weather anywhere around here. So instead of taking a week off to go and look at blue skies, I was able to do a …
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April 30, 2012 – Beat Down in the Texas Panhandle (C8/12)
I hadn’t realized how exhausted I was from Sunday’s chase until I awoke from 9 hours of sleep in my hotel room in Liberal, KS Monday morning. I was pretty amped up for the chase that day and combined with the long sleep I got, I was ready for anything. I didn’t know then, that the events that would unfold later in the afternoon would make me glad I got all of the sleep I could. I’d need all of …
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April 29, 2012 – More Storms in SE Colorado Full Report (C7/12)
I started the day viewing this chase as a “day before the day” type of event. The parameters weren’t great but it was Colorado, and it would take me in the direction I needed to be for Monday’s chase as well, so it was game on! Moisture and instability weren’t great with dews struggling to maintain in the mid 40′s. The HRRR kept showing storms firing down in the very extreme NW corner of New Mexico, and all models were …
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April 26, 2012 – Severe Storms in SE Colorado (C6/12)
Chase number six of the year I thought was going to be pretty tricky. Turns out, it wasn’t. There were concerns overnight about moisture problems, capping issues, and how much energy would show up. The usual faire. Fortunately, none of those concerns really were too much of an issue. I’d kind of figured that dew points of 50 would be the magic number. Under 50 and that wouldn’t be good. I checked the surface obs right after waking up at …
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4/26 Quick Forecast…
I will be heading out soon on what should be an interesting yet tricky chase. Parameters aren’t great, but storms should form across eastern Colorado this afternoon. Moisture return was a concern going in to today but dew points are already being observed in the upper 40′s and lower 50′s this morning. The other complicating factor is that southeast Colorado is currently under a pretty big cloud deck, thus not allowing sufficient daytime heating to erode the cap. The upper …
April 21, 2012 – Lyrid Meteor Shower (C5/12)
I felt like an idiot not realizing there was a meteor shower this night until about 8pm while at work. No big deal though, I’d have plenty of time to run home after work to grab my camera, and head out east somewhere to attempt photographing it. Usually the peak of these showers wasn’t until the wee hours of the morning. But then I found out that the peak was supposed to be at 11:30pm. Uh oh. I wasn’t going …
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Op Ed: Helping The Noob Chaser In The Right Way…
Over the past week or so I’ve been seeing a lot of posts on Facebook bashing “noob” chasers. Some of these posts are dead on, and some are a little too harsh I think. I’ve decided to try to write a post that both the Noob and veteran chaser alike can relate to. The Noob needs to understand the right kind of questions to ask and advice to seek, while the veteran needs to learn to be helpful but not …
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April 11, 2012 – Kim, CO Tornado Warned Storm (C4/12)
Only a day and a quick 8 hour work shift removed from my successful chase in Oklahoma, I was back at it again hoping to pull another rabbit out of my hat, this time with some local flavor to it. A Slight risk encompassed a good portion of southeastern Colorado, the Oklahoma panhandle, and the Texas panhandle. The parameters weren’t screaming “tornadoes” but whenever I see a 2% tornado risk down there, I just can’t seem to help myself (cough, …
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The “Greater” Good…
Missing yesterday’s outbreak of tornadoes in Kansas hurts. No doubt it stings, bad. I might have missed the best chase day of the entire season yesterday. 9News contacted me on Friday wondering if they could do a news story on me, and I had to pass. I even had a chance to go at the last minute, but I turned it down. All it would’ve required was me covering a few overnight shifts in exchange. After seeing yesterday’s results, it …
4/11/2012 – Quick Forecast (CO’s first day!)
Let there be light…or sun, is what I should probably say. A stout cap will sit over most of eastern and southeastern Colorado down through the Oklahoma panhandle into Texas and we need some good daytime heating to help erode that cap. A decent amount of instability should live in the southeast corner of CO and the shear isn’t awful either and the combination of both should yield some storms. Most current models break out a few storms in the …
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