Monthly Archives: May 2014

We started our day in Mile City, Montana and after our morning forecast discussion, our target area of southwest North Dakota was chosen. This area was chosen based on the forcing from the cold front, upper level support, and CAPE. … Continue reading →

Due to diminishing conditions for severe weather in the southern plains area and a good outlook for storms in the northern plains for Wednesday, we decided to designate Tuesday as a travel day. We started out early at 8am in … Continue reading →

We woke up in Buffalo, Wyoming with a 7hr drive ahead of us. Our forecast discussion was held in the van, which led us to decide on Lewistown, Montana as our target location. Our discussion was centered on the fact … Continue reading →

Today the team woke up in Odessa, Texas once again. Around 10:30 am we headed to our target area of Big Springs, Texas. Here is the surface map for Monday:   The set up seemed very similar to the past … Continue reading →

The team started the sixth chase day in Odessa, Texas and headed toward our target city of Fort Stockton, Texas around 10:30 AM. Here is the surface map for Sunday morning: The set-up seemed very similar to the previous day, … Continue reading →

We started the morning in Ft. Stockton, Texas and headed out around 10am with the target area to be Odessa, Texas. Below is an image of this morning’s surface analysis. Today, we finally had upper level support for storms in … Continue reading →

Today we woke up in Amarillo, Texas this morning and departed south at 9AM to our target area of Carlsbad, New Mexico. Here is a picture of this morning’s surface analysis. We drove through some areas of rain in the … Continue reading →

After enjoying a delicious continental breakfast, we rolled out of the Aurora, CO hotel at 9:30.  Our target area was centered between Tucumcari, NM and Amarillo, TX. This area had Theta-E nosing in from the east providing moisture (fuel) for … Continue reading →

After waking up yesterday morning in Cheyenne, Wyoming we decided to chose our target of Denver, CO. Conditions looked substantially better than the previous chase day. Instability values were higher, and our LCL’s were lower making for a better probability … Continue reading →

We started our day by leaving from Lawrence, KS at 7am. A forecast discussion was conducted on the road and Cheyenne, WY was chosen for the target area. We stopped in Kearney, NE for lunch at Jimmy Johns and ate … Continue reading →