My chase target on Tuesday, May 6th was west-central Kansas somewhere with a starting point of Scott City in mind.  I set off for Scott City around midday, reaching the Scott City area around 2:30pm.  There were already storms developing between Lamar and Holly where convective temperature was being reached in the 83-85F range.  A […]

Likely targeting western KS
Today is my day off, so I plan to chase.  I have really been waffling between two areas of interest:  The more consensus TX Panhandle choice or western KS.  I think I am going to target western KS.  The reason I like the looks of DDC-GLD CWA border region of western KS […]

The following albums have been uploaded to my Collections page:
February 20, 2008 — Dead Horse Point State Park, UtahFebruary 20, 2008 — Northwest Colorado SnowscapesFebruary 21, 2008 — Wyoming I-80 Snowscapes
…and the recent Northwest Kansas storm chase:
April 24, 2008 — Northwest Kansas high-based supercell 

April 26th was a very productive storm photography day.  Lightning was nothing short of spectacular with a supercell thunderstorm that moved slowly across the San Angelo area.  On the way north to Abilene late in the evening, another storm produced spectacular lightning. 
I intercepted and photographed the San Angelo high-based supercell. AsI was en route […]

Sitting in Childress at this time about to take off for Lubbock area where I’lllikely spend much of the afternoon. RUC and NAM suggest near 2000 J/kgto develop in the northward advecting moist axis through West TX. Del Rio morning sounding shows pretty good moisture which is already advectingnorthwest just off the surface. Midland sounding […]