Learn From Forecast to Chase Decisions
Go from forecast to chasing the storm and get the inside scoop on critical decisions and forecast strategies in this new series of Titan U videos. These videos are meant to be comprehensive learning experiences where we teach the whys from start to finish on chase day.
The Rolling Fork, Mississippi EF-4 Tornado: Explaining The Anatomy of a Disaster
I, like many of you, watched in horror as a supercell rapidly took shape and took aim on Western Mississippi. This tornado was rated an EF-4 and caused devastating human loss of life along its path. But why did it happen? What was so different about the area this tornado formed in versus the other…
Boom or Bust: A Saga of the Cap vs. High Instability – Storm Chase Case
When it is Prime Time on the Plains, the instability cranks up and the atmosphere’s potential is maxed out. For today’s storm chase case, that was absolutely the case. Today we’re going to Northern Oklahoma on May 25, 2016 — the same day as the Chapman EF4 tornado in Northern Kansas. This secondary target, where…
Storm Chase Case: Night of the Creepy Twisters
Chasing at night is REALLY difficult — especially compared to daytime chases. When that night chase happens in November in a low CAPE, high shear environment? Buckle up! The November 16, 2015 Tornado Outbreak across the Texas Panhandle into SW Kansas is one of the most prolific tornado outbreaks of the last decade on the…
Storm Chase Case: Why You Should Always Chase the High Plains
If you are, like us, traditionally a storm chaser of the lower plains and southeast US — the High Plains are oftentimes a bit of an afterthought in your seasonal plans. But they shouldn’t be. From a growing library of experience, the High Plains may be amongst the most magical places to chase storms if…
Storm Chase Case | Incredible Supercell Along the OK/TX Border | May 29, 2018
Sometimes in storm chasing, there are multiple targets to choose from. This can create opportunity or anguish for storm chasers as they try to ascertain which target is for them. May 29, 2018 was a great example of this, with a outflow boundary as one target and the dryline as another (there was a third…
Storm Chase Case | Chester, OK Tornadoes | April 16, 2017
For our second ever video of this type, we’re taking a look at a day that would challenge any chaser to pick out the right target. This is another Slight risk/2% tornado risk with the dryline in the Texas Panhandle being outlined for a supercell risk. However, because some might call us renegades, we opted…
Storm Chase Case | Needmore, Texas Tornado Warned Supercell | May 4, 2019
Here’s a new experiment for our channel and I hope we can continue to evolve and develop this content type. Today, we’re doing a start-to-finish storm chase case with some thoughts on forecasting, strategy, and storm anatomy throughout. The hope is these become an all-encompassing source of learning as we move forward. So with this…