Prairiestorm Media Blog. Storm Chasing, Weather, St. Louis Photography, Video and Travel Blog by Dan Robinson. We finally have some model agreement and consistency for the system coming in this weekend, and it's (at least for now) very good news for storm chasers. A classic potent tornado setup is shown for Saturday in Kansas and Oklahoma as a strong trough moves out into the Plains, and this overtop of deep moisture, strong instability, backed surface winds and a classic veering-with-height vertical wind profile. Due to the vast improvement in the models' handling of this system, I have a much greater level of confidence in 2014 Plains expedition #1 happening this weekend.
The departure date will be Friday afternoon if the current forecast holds in upcoming days' data. As always, there is still time for a 'model meltdown' where this setup 'tanks' - which is the reason why I'm not going past 75% on trip probabilities. Since we are now within 5 days of the event, that will get less likely with each passing run, though it's still something to keep in mind. ALWAYS CHASING / BIG SKY CONVECTION BLOG. Blog/ This past weekend I had the opportunity to watch storm chaser Ben Holcomb’s new 2011 Storm Chasing DVD creatively titled Relocated. Ben moved to Central Oklahoma from Michigan to more conveniently and actively pursue his severe weather interests, and this DVD shows that move certainly paid off!
In full disclosure I must confess that I am friends with Ben. I’ve known Ben for a while now and have watched him grow not only as a storm chaser but as a photographer as well. The Big Storm Picture. Sean Mullins Photography. Great Sky of the North. Thailand flood its most expensive in history; Western Caribbean disturbance develops. Most people don't realize it, but a rainbow is actually a full circle.
You usually can't see the full circle, since half of the rainbow lies beneath the horizon, where it is not raining. After all, there is no weather underground. However, if one is in an airplane or overlooking a waterfall, the 360-degree rainbow can be seen. I know--I have seen them twice from research airplanes that were flying through rain showers. Check out the 360-degree rainbow image at the bottom. Latest Updates. 04 Apr 2013 04/01/2013 Tornado Video from Texas Panhandle near Silverton and Caprock Canyons State Park New stock video available for license.
Shot on April 1, 2013 in Briscoe, County, Texas in the Texas Panhandle. Near Silverton, Texas and the Caprock Canyons State Park. Available in full 1080p HD 60fps. Live Streaming Video. TornadoVideos.Net. Adventures in Storm Chasing with David Drummond. Stormtalk - Severe weather forecasts, discussions and storm chasing updates from Stormgasm.com. Saturday, 7 June 2013 I haven’t had any free time to truly express the events that unfolded on May 31, 2013 when my friend Jesse Duncan and I witnessed the El Reno tornado at extremely close range.
My flight back to PA left the following day, I didn’t arrive home until very late that night, and the next day I went back to work. With such insane sleep deprivation on top of the fact that I went on this second storm chasing trip putting ‘life on hold’, I’ve had a lot of things to take care of between working and sleeping! Thus, I simply haven’t had the time to really express things in words. And I’m still short on time, so this won’t be an extended post. Looking west-southwest off I-40 a few miles west of El Reno as the tornado had just touched down. Our first view of the tornado was not good to say the least. Multi-vortex tornado looking south from a dirt road just east of a county road feeding south off I-40 south of El Reno. More coming soon….
Carlson Chasers and The RHINO Storm Chase Vehicle. EYE OF THE STORM. Connor McCrorey & David Reimer. 28storms.com Hurricane & Severe Weather Tracking. StormScape LIVE. CIMSS Satellite Blog. GOES-13 3.9 µm shortwave IR channel images Strong winds helped a wildfire to spread very quickly through a portion of the city of Valparaíso, Chile — this fire forced large-scale evacuations, destroyed around 2000 homes, and was responsible for 12 fatalities. McIDAS images of 4-km resolution GOES-13 3.9 µm shortwave IR channel data (above) showed the fire “hot spot” (black to red color enhancement), which began late in the day on 12 April 2014, and burned through the night and into the day on 13 April.
The hottest 3.9 µm IR brightness temperatures were 339.6 K (66.45º C) at 20:45 UTC and 340.8 K (67.65º C) at 23:45 UTC on 12 April. Since the GOES-13 satellite only performs one full-disk scan (hence imaging the Southern Hemisphere) every 3 hours, the temporal behavior of this fire cannot be well ascertained. The ABI instrument on the future GOES-R satellite will perform a full-disk scan every 5 minutes.