2020 has been a godforsaken year in many ways for nearly everyone, the COVID-19 pandemic has been putting the screws on since the spring. Even…
It doesn’t always have to be about tornadoes, clear slots, and core punching. Sometimes you just need a photogenic thunderstorm in Nebraska in…
It was the first day of summer and this chase came out of nowhere.
This chase is something special to me, a relativity local chase with supercells, tornadoes and gust fronts. It was the whole package in one chase.
“I fought the cap and the cap won,” one storm chaser said in the aftermath of Saturday, May 23.
My first storm chase of the 2020 season and I hope the saying about a poor dress rehearsal means a great opening show.
I feel extremely fortunate after this 2019 severe weather season. On May 17 I fulfilled a goal I have been pursuing since I was a child, I wit…
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I will fully admit, I had all but written off the 2019 severe weather season. My mind was more on Husker football than it was on severe weathe…
Sometimes storms surprise me. I wasn't expecting storm activity anywhere in the area on Wednesday, June 19, I was partially right.
I have noticed a pattern during my 2019 storm chases, I pick a target, second guess that target, go to my backup and tornadoes form at the tar…
The afternoon of June 6 was hot, muggy and atmospherically unstable, with CAPE values reaching around 1,500 j/kg. A low pressure system far in…
This time last year, I was on a trip down in Kansas and took a detour which took me far off into sparsely populated western half of Kansas. Af…
Over a 72 hour period, Dawson County the eastern portion of Dawson County received between four to six inches of rain. In an area which had al…
Friday, May 17 was a make or break day for me as a storm chaser. The forecast had indicated since Monday, May 13 that severe weather was possi…
May 11, 2019 was a pleasant day, after several days of below normal temperatures, almost constant cloud cover and light rain, a seasonable day…
On Sunday, May 5, 2019 severe weather was forecast to occur from southern Nebraska, down through Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. A cold front desc…
As the light set on Easter Sunday, isolated thunderstorms were already hours old off to the west of Dawson County and to the south in Kansas. …
On April 21, Easter Sunday, the Storm Prediction Center had issued a marginal risk for severe weather across Central Nebraska. A low pressure …