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June 17th, 2010 – Tornado-geddon
Posted on19. Jun, 2010 by Danny.
June 17th, 2010 – Southern Minnesota Tornadogeddon
Thursday, June 17th, 2010 - I almost didn’t chase this day. Almost. Not because I didn’t want to, but because I had a family obligation on Friday, the 18th, at 7 P.M. My usual chase partner Adam Lucio and I talked about this set up for [...]
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4-21-10 – Caprock Chase – Floydada, TX area.
Posted on27. Apr, 2010 by Danny.
Adam Lucio and I set off Tuesday afternoon from Chicago, IL to Wichita, KS. We left at 12 P.M. and ended up arriving at 12 A.M. We were staying at Mike Nelson’s place on the south side of Wichita and hoped to be on the road by 6 A.M. the next morning for the northeast [...]
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3/11/10 – Forecast Follow-Up
Posted on14. Mar, 2010 by Danny.
Things did not pan out as expected, however, we were still treated to a decent light show and some beautiful structure. I may post a video of some lightning later on. We didn’t get any rotating storms or tornadoes, but storms did form and produced pea sized hail and abundant lightning. The front set up [...]
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3/11/10 – Forecast Update – SW IL, E MO, SE IA
Posted on09. Mar, 2010 by Danny.
This is looking more and more like it will NOT be a cold core event. Mike Umscheid wrote a nice piece about today’s event and reminded us that the phrase “cold core” is tossed around too much. This could be a legit warm sector string of pearl supercell event for SW IL. [...]
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3/11/10 – Forecast – Musings about possible Cold-Core Event in MO/IL
Posted on08. Mar, 2010 by Danny.
Well we are right back at it again it seems. It appears likely that things could be setting up for a local chase. The 18z and 00z NAM have shown a nice set up for SW IL/ E MO into C IL. High temps pushing 70 degrees with a decent moisture return North (along the [...]
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3/8/10 Forecast – Musings about possible cold core setup in S. Plains
Posted on03. Mar, 2010 by Danny.
**This is not a “it is going to happen event, in fact previous runs have looked better than this one. The main point of the script below is to demonstrate how it were to happen if it were to happen, overall not COMPLETELY sold either way**
00z GFS – March 4th run: It is looking a [...]
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Danny’s – June 7th, 2009 – Atomic Supercell in NW MO
Posted on07. Jun, 2009 by Danny.
Whew! Where to start. After a somber bust the day before, a moderate risk would try to shake me out of a bad mood. After spending the night in a crummy hotel in Council Bluffs, IA where we did get some good boomers overnight, Skip Talbot and Brad Goddard joined Adam and I for breakfast [...]
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Danny’s May 13th, 2009 – Edina Tornadoes.
Posted on13. May, 2009 by Danny.
What a great day! Adam Lucio, his g/f, my g/f and I set out at around 10 A.M. For days we were sitting there not being able to concentrate on anything in anticipation of the outbreak of severe weather and tornadoes that the models were hinting at. I originally wanted to target S IL near [...]
