Author Archives: Lee Campbell

Currently the Mid-South is sitting on the ascending side of a ridge axis located over New England with a deep positively tilted trough digging over Arizona.  The trough will continue to dig eastward into the southern plains today with a … Continue reading →

Highlights -First day of Fall starts out cool and wet -Cut-off 500 hPa low retrogrades westward -Wet weekend in store A potent upper level low is digging and progressing east-southeast at the moment over the midwest.  We have seen a … Continue reading →

Highlights -Rain to start work week – Temperatures will gradually decrease throughout the week from upper 70s to low 70s – Atmosphere revamps for another round of possibly strong T’storms Wednesday evening A neutrally tilted shortwave trough axis extending from … Continue reading →

By: Lindsay Rice We left Hannibal, MO around 8am on Wednesday morning. The group reflected on the trip for a majority of the way home. We reminisced about the experience and shared pictures and videos. We dropped Dr. Dixon off … Continue reading →

Posted by: Kate Wilson Today seemed like the last promising chase day of the trip. The setup involved a surface low in the northern central plains, with a warm front situated west to east across the Midwest and a cold … Continue reading →

Our group woke up in Limon, CO with hopes of a chase day in southeastern Colorado. The outlook in that area was meager with a dominating cap (CIN) over the area preventing any convection from taking place. All other parameters, … Continue reading →

Mother nature was not allowing us to pursue our goal of catching stomrs.  The atmosphere was in the process of developing another system to eject out of the four corners region for this weekend. So the group decided to take … Continue reading →

Today we left Wichita, KS towards our target a little farther west.  We traveled to Wellington, KS and waited for initiation.  The group agreed to stay around the Wichita area because we were in great position.  Many parameters were coming … Continue reading →

The group started out the day in Bartlesville,OK with everyone focusing their attention to the west. One of the main features we were looking at was a 700MB shortwave that was moving out of the four corners region. This would … Continue reading →

On Friday morning our group woke up in Salina, KS where we discussed possible targets for storms for the day. An MCS came through in the morning causing cloud cover in most of eastern Kansas, limiting thermal instability. With this … Continue reading →