Tag Archives: Tornado

Storm Chasing: June 7th Iowa Tornado Outbreak

I didn’t expect this day to do much. Bill called, but I wasn’t inspired to get out the door. By noon, after watch my friend, the Sig Tor parameter, climb to levels I like to see, and storm development looking imminent, I was out the door for a relatively close storm chase. I headed out...

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Storm Chasing: May 25th, 2008 Hugo Tornado

Kristen and I met up with Bill and Cullen Doms in the far northwestern suburbs where thunderstorms were forecast to develop. A thunderstorm developed and quickly moved east. We eventually fell 10 minutes behind in the north metro area construction and road closings, but were witness to a path of destruction of a tornado moving...

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Storm Chasing: May 22, 2008 Kansas Tornado Outbreak

AMAZING, CRAZY, INTENSE. After waking up in 4 inches of mud in the Badlands of South Dakota surrounded by buffalo, we headed down into Nebraska, and eventually into northwest Kansas. We found a good area to intercept storms that were forming along I-70 and moving north. We settled in around Hoxie, Kansas. The first storm...

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