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May 26, 2015

Day 2 – Chasing a wedge

Our target area today was primarily western Oklahoma so we started off south, chasing the dryline storms. At our lunch break at Arby’s we saw an incredible storm build up with a nice overshooting top – but it was over at the cold front some 90 miles away. We continued into north Texas after lunch...
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funnel cloud
May 25, 2015

Day 1 – Funnel cloud on a very short chase

Just as last year my neighbors decided to have a party the night before my trip and I had to get up at 4.30 to catch my plane! That, and being a bit nervous to oversleep made me sleep only one hour the night before. I slept on and off during the flights over to...
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February 1, 2015

The most exciting photo I have ever seen

Back in 2012 I was chasing with PDS Storm Tours and we were having a really slow week. We had pretty much called off the chase when the winds shifted on our last day and an opportunity appeared in Kansas on our way back to Oklahoma. I have put up the whole story here but...
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June 15, 2014

Summary of my trip with Tempest Tours in 2013

I have now finished my job of adding photos and texts about my previous storm chasing tours. The last one out was my tour with Tempest Tours in 2013, I was lucky to get a seat when my previous plans were cancelled. Unfortunately I ended up in one of the most quiet season starts for...
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June 10, 2014

Re-published my blog post about chasing with PDS Storm tours

I continue to re-publish my old blog post that I once wrote (in Swedish) on my personal blog, translate them into English and post them here. I hope they will be interesting for you to read (as a storm chasing story) and also give you an idea about how it is to chase with that...
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June 3, 2014

Putting up old tour chase experiences on this blog

I have started adding, to this blog, some of my older chase blog entries that I first wrote for my personal blog (in Swedish) but later translated into English. I thought it would be interesting for the readers to be able to read my experiences with other tour companies as well. I’m starting off with...
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May 30, 2014

Day 6 – Zzzzz…

This was officially the last day of the tour but with no storms at all in the vicinity (and hardly at all in the US) we spent most of the day relaxing (it was well needed after all those shots yesterday). We had a tear-filled goodbye of our Aussie friends Tim & Jess and then...
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lanny dean tattoo
May 29, 2014

Day 5 – Tour is over but the fun is not

That tiny hope we had for the outflow boundary was lost during the morning briefing. The forecast was for tiny popup cells in the Tulsa area (in which we stayed) but we decided they were not worth chasing but instead decided to have some fun! After some lunch we all headed out for a tattoo...
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outflow boundary
May 28, 2014

Day 4 – Tour is over…or is it?

It wasn’t really news when Lanny announced to us that the tour was basically over during our morning meeting. The setup over the plains started to look more and more like summer weather leaving us stranded with absolutely nothing to work with. I am glad I hadn’t followed through with my plan to buy a...
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May 27, 2014

Day 3 – 5% tornado risk turned to 0%

The reports we got last night was that today was going to be quite intense with even better shear and great instability. SPC had a Slight Risk in our area and a 5% tornado risk where we were positioned for the day. The next couple of days looked crappy so I realized this could very...
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