Archive for October, 2010
FCST: 10/25/10 – 10/26/10 – Significant Wind Event
Posted on25. Oct, 2010 by Jesse.
Tweet A potent and potentially historic low pressure system is slated to gyrate across the Upper Midwest, reaching southern Ontario by Wednesday morning. Perhaps the most notable aspect of this system is the pressure falls, with forecast models bombing the low out between 955 mb (GFS) – 959 mb (NAM) by 0z Wednesday. Should this [...]
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FCST: 10/22/10 – Southern Plains
Posted on21. Oct, 2010 by Jesse.
Tweet Friday’s setup offers two potential severe weather setups across the Southern Plains. A synoptically strong late season disturbance will move out of the SW on Friday, the first in a series of strong autumnal disturbances to impact the CONUS in the coming week. The main kinematic features of the storm remain off the Pacific [...]
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Chasers as first responders?
Posted on21. Oct, 2010 by Jesse.
The sun is shining brightly on a small hamlet in anytown, USA, but things are far from ordinary in what would otherwise be a tranquil Saturday afternoon in a hearth of Americana’s Shangri-La. As you stumble out of your chase vehicle, an eerie calm settles over the area. All across the immediate landscape destruction ensues. [...]
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Adams’s Chase log. October 18th 2007 Nappanee, Indiana EF-3 Tornado!
Posted on18. Oct, 2010 by Adam.
Our original target was the Champaign area, however we decided to stop in a town called Gilman instead to play our waiting game there. This wasn’t my first time here either, we also stopped here on March 1st of this year. The day started off slow, keeping tabs on weather updates and watching tower after [...]
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2010 Minnesota Storm Chasing Convention
Posted on15. Oct, 2010 by Ryan.
Tweet We are proud to be one of the many speakers amongst many very talented and respected storm chasers at February’s ‘Minnesota Storm Chasing Convention’! Convective Addiction’s Ryan Wichman will provide a case study on the atmospheric environment while Adam Lucio and Jesse Risley show real-time ground video from multiple tornadoes. This will be a [...]
