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WKU Storm Chase- Day 9

Posted on May 24, 2018 by Isaac Smith

A change in the forecast for today ended up resulting in a change of plans. Yesterday we traveled north to South Dakota to get into place for today’s severe weather threat. However, later model runs yesterday evening and into this morning … Continue reading →

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WKU Storm Chase – Day 3

Posted on May 18, 2018 by Isaac Smith

After spending the previous day travelling north to get in place for the next weather set up, we woke up in Castle Rock, Colorado, which is just south of Denver. The forecast for this day would prove to be fairly … Continue reading →

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WKU Storm Chase 2016 – Day 13

Posted on May 27, 2016 by Isaac Bowers

Before our morning forecast discussion, Flavia Moraes presented her thesis defense on mesoscale convective complexes in southern Brazil (Figure 1). She did a fantastic job presenting incredibly interesting research on how these complexes form and what conditions they form under; … Continue reading →

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WKU Storm Chase 2016 – Day 9

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Isaac Bowers

Morning observations identified a weak surface low over the extreme western Oklahoma Panhandle as a result of a shortwave trough rotating through the region that would provide some convergence and an anchor for the dryline draped in a southwest-northeast fashion … Continue reading →

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WKU Storm Chase 2016 – Day 8

Posted on May 23, 2016 by Isaac Bowers

Morning model data indicated a broad area of severe risk, but two specific areas of interest became clear to us. A surface low began to form overnight in northeast Colorado as a result of the upper-level trough moving in from … Continue reading →

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