Garden Weather

temp: 35.6 F (2.0 C)
humidity: 64%
wind: From the ENE at 3.0 MPH Gusting to 6.0 MPH
pressure: 1026.0 mb
station: KILWHEAT3
February 4, 7:38 AM CST

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Tornado!! Well sorta…a little one

Gilbert Sebenste and I went storm chasing yesterday (me driving, him forecasting). We targeted Macomb, IL on the north side of the expected severe weather area. The good stuff was firing by the time we made it down towards Macomb. Gilbert had me reposition us further east after entering Macomb, so we started [...]

CoD Storm Chase 2011 Last Day

We wake up in Kansas City, MO for our last day of CoD Trip 1. It holds the best potential for chasing, actually the first real chase potential in 9 days.

10:00am : SPC has not been hyping today but they do have a slight day 1 probability out for NE Nebraska. Paul has [...]

CoD Storm Chase 2011 Day 9

11:00am : Been down for 6 days with nothing but blue skies and beautiful weather. We spent 2 nights in San Antonio, 1 night in Fredericksburg, and 2 nights in Fort Worth area.

Beautiful weather sucks for storm chasing.

We have to be home Sunday night, no exceptions. Using shortest path routing, it’s 8 [...]

CoD Storm Chase 2011 Day 3

Miles: 480

9:00am : Up and doing maps. Lots of precipitation ongoing but nothing particularly severe. We are hoping destabilization caused by day time heating will cause some isolated cells to go severe.

10:40am : Discussion with Paul regarding if we should stay in the Ark-La-Tx region in the trees and overcast or head [...]

CoD Storm Chase 2011 Day 2

Miles: 390

8:35am : Vans are getting loaded and gassed. We’ll be doing maps and a morning briefing shortly. But forecast from last night of heading towards Paris, TX looks to be correct.

10:15am : South bound and down. Heading to the Ark-La-Tx region.

01:20pm : at Jaxx Burgers in Paris, TX Clouds [...]