Got on three separate cells: Bow/line segment between London and Ilderton around 1:00 pm Shelf/wall cloud around 3:00 pm, North of Harrietsville, south of the 401 Broken line of cells coming in from L Huron in the early evening. a
11 September 2013 – London, Ontario Bow Echo Segment
High-based but photogenic Bow Echo segment.
Transit of Venus – 5 June, 2012
Next one won’t happen until 2117! The four dark smaller regions are sunspots.
8 July 2016 – Lake Huron (Ontario), Bow Echo
Lake Huron shore, north of Grand Bend, Ontario. Excellent Ontario structure! Pano: Gallary
22 June 2016 – Manilus, Illinois Tornado
Excellent chase day!
14 June 2016 – E of Lubbock, Texas
What a chase!
13 June 2016 – W of Kim, Colorado
Left Goodland, Kansas at 9:00 am, as we got as far as about 20 -25 miles W of Kim, Colorado, but unfortunately were 15 minutes late and 15 miles short of the tornado. We did see a lot of scud, though. Hey, that’s chasing!
12 June 2016 – Chugwater, Wyoming Supercell
Surprise! Wasn’t safe to get the DSLR out where we stopped so these are from my cell phone.
11 June 2016 – Baker, Montana Tornado
Rather unusual storm in a number of ways!
Pre-Syzygy Perigee Harvest Moon and Fun With Iridescent Altocumulus – 27 September, 2015
Scouted out a nice high spot to catch the Harvest Moonise on the Perigee.
3 June, 2015 – E Wyoming
Doug and I started the day in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
2 June, 2015 – Nebraska Panhandle Chase
Good chase day in the Nebraska Panhandle!
1 June 2015 Rapid City, South Dakota Supercell
Started the day in Denver. Realized there wouldn’t be a lot of time to forecast, and would have to hit the road early!
28 May 2015 – Far NW Texas Panhandle
Doug and I started in Amarillo, with potential targets south near and south of Lubbock and further north in far W Kansas.
26 May 2015 Breckenridge, Texas Supercell
One of my favorite things to happen on a chase is to make a forecast, drive to the target area, and then observe the storm form. That’s what happened with teh chase on 26 May, 2015!
23 May, 2015 – SE Colorado
Doug and I started the day in Burlington, Colorado where the very nice Best Western was practically FULL of stormchasers.
St. Patrick’s Day Aurora
This was my first attempt at photographing the aurora borealis.
21 May 2014 SW Ontario Storms/Chase
This post covers a couple of events!
30 May 2012 – NW Texas Giant Hail Machine
Dodged a supercell producing giant hail SW of Childress, Texas.
29 May 2012 – Far NW Oklahoma Convection
Some vigorous updrafts.
28 May 2012 – Greensburg Kansas Well – Tornado Museum
Museum at the Well site commemorating the tornado that destroyed the town.
27 May 2012 – NC Kansas – SC Nebraska
Beautiful skyscapes!
25 May 2012 – Russell, KS Chase
Started the day in Lawrence, Kansas, after visiting with John’s 88-year-old father (who is a Professor Emeritus at KU, and was a field-leading radar researcher and engineer). Initially, Friday look like a down day, with no chasing anticipated even the day before.
25 May 2012 – More Russell, KS Images
Unusual rope-out!
24 May 2012 – Knuckles over Topeka
A few images taken while repositioning.
23 May 2012 – E Colorado Chase
Preliminary summary to get the images out there – will update with more details as time permits, Chased with John and Kathy Valequez / Linda Kitchen (the ORIGINAL Twister Sisters).
23 May 2012 – E Colorado
Nice supercell with great subtle colour and texture!
22 May 2012 – Far NE New Mexico / Texline, Texas
Nice little cell.
21 May 2012 – NW Texas Panhandle Chase
20 May, 2012 Annular Solar Eclipse
13 June 2009 – Texas Panhandle Supercell
Supercell over Pantex!
12 June 2009 – E Colorado Supercell
Even more structure
11 June 2009 – Pueblo, CO – Lamar, CO
More Structure!
10 June Johnson City, KS – Liberal, KS Structure
Great structure day!
9 June 2009 – SE Kansas chase
A day with a lot of waiting around before weak storms got going.
7 June 2009 – SE Nebraska/NW Missouri Supercells
Good chase that culminated in some chase heavy chaser convergence.
6 June 2009 – Thedford, NE
Pretty convection over the Sandhills.
5 June, 2009 – Full Lifecycle, Goshen, Co., WY Tornadoes
Series of images from about ten minutes before the first brief tornado and then the complete life-cycle of the 25 minute second tornado.
4 June 2009 – Eastern Colorado Structure!
Fun Chase!
3 June, 2009 – Capulin Volcano/Raton Mesa Convection
From 2009:
2 June 2009 – Post, TX Shelf Cloud
Chased with John Moore.
2009 Chase Season – Some Additional Images
Wanted to share a few more of the 2009 Chase Season images – some offering slightly different interpretations of earlier scenes, and some ones I missed posting in the in field.
From The Vault – 31 May 1992 – Tornadogenesis Failure
As I referenced it in the the Al Moller tribute below here is a little more from that day.
From The Vault – 11 May 1992 – My First Tornado
Scanned in low res.
From The Vault – 22 May 1995 – N of Liberal, KS
Scanned slide from 22 May 1995
From The Vault – 1996 TX Panhandle Light Show
From a set of old lo-res slide scans I had done some years back. I should get some more done.
26 May 1994 – Fort Stockton, TX, Supercell Video
Digitized the low-8 video tapes and edited down to the chase highlights.
B&W Studies
Joining in the current black and white processing craze!
Partial Solar Eclipse at Sunset – London, Ontario – 23 October 2014
September Whale’s Mouth – London, Ontario – 5 September, 2014
Probably the last good chance for decent storms in 2014.
Some July Lightning!
2012 Weather/Chase Season – Mid-March Lightning!
Got to test my new 35mm prime on the Canon 5D Mark II on a storm!
2012 Weather/Chase Season – Birds In Transit
Well preparations for this years chase expedition continue – the lens change-outs are almost complete (will discuss in further detail when everything is done/resolved), but here are some test shots to share…
From The Vault – 27 May 2001 – People Chaser Derecho Video!
Commentary adapted from the original SUMM.
The Meteorology behind the 24 August, 2011, SW Ontario Tornadic Event
The 24 August, 2011 event shared both similarities and differences with the 21 August, 2011 event.
The Meteorology behind the 21 August, 2011, Goderich, ON Tornado
image courtesy of Danica Harvey.
Another Tribute to Al Moller
A few times in ones life one meets a person who can be described as a true guiding force. For me, Al Moller is one of those.