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The Integrated Warning Team (aka IWT) has been acclaimed across the weather enterprise as an enhancement to public safety via providing increased awareness of impactful weather conditions. Meeting periodically, these teams typically include meteorologists from the National Weather Service and broadcast (now including digital) community, as well as emergency managers and other...
Those that have perused the posts on this blog know that SPC Moderate Risks are a primary source of the “White family curse”. Many of my storm chase busts have occurred during Moderate Risks, both here in the Mid-Atlantic and out on the Great Plains. This post is a look back at one somewhat lessened disappointment in August 2023.
On August 7th of that year the SPC i...
It turns out that 2018 was the last year I traveled out to the Great Plains to chase. I went twice, the first trip being my final journey with the Virginia Tech Hokie Stormchasers as a driver/mentor. A week and a half after returning home from that expedition I drove back out west to Kansas City, where I picked up my brother from an airport hotel. We headed north and west fro...
The May 13 2009 chase was a long one during my first venture out west with mobile internet via a USB aircard for my laptop. My brother and I began the morning in Lubbock TX and drove to the Stillwater OK exit on I-35 to await convection. When storms bubbled up west of the interstate around 5:30 p.m. we moseyed in that direction, settling down to watch one cell build in front ...
With no storms around I recently turned to revisiting prior chases, especially those out on the Great Plains. The first re-analysis involved my first tornado, which occurred during my very first chase trip with my brother and my son.
“My first tornado intercept was from this Kansas supercell on May 11 2002. Our approximate position was at the white star when we saw ...
