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Chasing with StormGroup Chasers in 2024

By StormChasingUSA.com | February 28, 2024 | 0 Comments

This winter has been very tough for me on a personal level but I am finally looking forward towards the spring and summer – and with that my storm chasing trips in May. This year I will be chasing with StormGroup Chasers is a non-profit tour operator that I have been in contact with for […]

What is your opinion about my storm map application?

By StormChasingUSA.com | June 28, 2023 | 1 Comment

Almost two years ago I started working on StormCenter (formerly named StormWindow), a web application where you can explore and analyze storms, tornadoes and storm chaser activity in the last 24 hours. You can see photos, videos chasers have posted as well as zooming in on a specific time and location. See who was close […]

Chasing with Extreme Tornado Tours

By StormChasingUSA.com | May 17, 2023 | 0 Comments

Chasing with Extreme Tornado Tours (ETT) was a long awaited trip for me. I was originally scheduled to go with ETT in 2020 but could not go because of Covid. It was not until this year (2023) I could finally go – after the longest hiatus I have had in storm chasing since 2009-2013. For […]

Summary of my 2023 season

By StormChasingUSA.com | May 16, 2023 | 0 Comments

I have been home for a week now since my storm chasing tour with Extreme Tornado Tours in the beginning of May. It turned out that the throat pain I had during the tour was tonsillitis, that was growing worse every day on the tour. I was taking aspirin and cough drops every day on […]

Day 6: The lightning day

By StormChasingUSA.com | May 6, 2023 | 0 Comments

Day 6 was our last day of chasing and although SPC had a 2% tornado risk for our area, the actual chance of seeing a tornado was very low, mainly due to a high dew point/temperature spread that would keep the cloud bases high. The risk for very large hail was higher than the day […]

Day 5: Birthday hail

By StormChasingUSA.com | May 5, 2023 | 0 Comments

The last two days were not as promising as the Thursday and would offer chasing both days, with hail as the main risk and with very slim tornado chances. However, an option appeared to us at this moment. Northwestern Missouri had opened up to be a potential target for tornadoes on Day 6. We had […]

Day 4: So close!

By StormChasingUSA.com | May 4, 2023 | 1 Comment

Day 4 was supposed to be our “Big Day”, it had been forecasted as such since Day 1, not only by our tour guides but by SPC and most in the storm chaser community. The night before SPC put a 5% tornado risk in southwestern Oklahoma and parts of Texas. Our tour guides did however […]

Day 3: Possible landspout tornado outside Ava, OK

By StormChasingUSA.com | May 3, 2023 | 0 Comments

Today was the first day with some potential of actually seeing a supercell. The models were showing some support for this in the OK panhandle so we moved north. The storms were coming in slooowly from New Mexico and we found some beautiful piece of completely flat land to watch the high based storms coming […]

Day 2: Late thunderstorm in Amarillo

By StormChasingUSA.com | May 2, 2023 | 0 Comments

Day 2 was supposedly a chase day, even though it was very marginal. There was riska area over parts of west Texas up to Amarillo and the tour guides chose to stay around for the northern target, which meant we would stay put in Amarillo. I had been feeling a bit sick so I took […]

Day 1: Going to Amarillo, TX

By StormChasingUSA.com | May 1, 2023 | 0 Comments

I arrived to Oklahoma city at 8 pm, dead tired and crashed directly to bed. I had at that time checked out what people were saying about the upcoming week, and my heart sunk. There were mentions of Omega Blocks and Death Ridges, words you don’t want to hear about the single week you chose […]

First storm chasing in 4 years

By StormChasingUSA.com | April 30, 2023 | 0 Comments

I am currently sitting at the Schiphol airport in Amsterdam while writing this blog post, on my way to my first storm chasing vacation in four years! I went chasing in 2019, I was scheduled to go in 2020, I wasn’t really expecting to be able go in 2021 (which turned out to be true) […]

Finally coming back

By StormChasingUSA.com | November 21, 2022 | 0 Comments
finally

2019 was the last time I went chasing storms and, man, have I been missing it – but now I am finally coming back! The reason for not going in 2020 and 2021 is obvious but this year the timing just wasn’t good. For 11 years, I worked full-time with my own business and had […]

StormWindow: My new storm chasing web application

By StormChasingUSA.com | January 4, 2022 | 0 Comments
stormwindow screen dump

Update as of 2023-09-15: This application is now under StormCenter.app and is called StormCenter I am happy to finally be able to launch a web application I started making last summer but haven’t come around to finish until now: StormWindow. StormWindow is a web application where you can get an overview of what is going […]

New tornado and storm chasing movies to come!

By StormChasingUSA.com | September 8, 2021 | 0 Comments
tornado movies in 2021 2022

Note: The image is NOT a scene from any of the movies mentioned but rather just some photo editing. Although tornadoes are frequent in movies they are often pictured more as a backdrop to enhance a disaster movie or the likes of it. The storm chasing community has not been spoiled with great movies – […]

State of the storm chasing (tour) season of 2022

By StormChasingUSA.com | September 1, 2021 | 0 Comments
who is chasing in 2022

As you may be very well aware of, the storm chasing tours have been severely impacted by the Covid-19 outbreak and the subsequent travel bans. Many tour companies cancelled their tours in 2020 completely and those who didn’t only held very few and highly restricted tours. For most, 2020 was a terrible year for chasing […]

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