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WKU Storm Chase Day 9
It was another long but eventful day as our team woke up in northeastern Colorado in the town of Sterling, CO. Once again, the visibility within the Front Range of the Rockies was absolutely spectacular and the setup and ingredients … Continue reading
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WKU Storm Chase Day 8
It was a long day of chasing today as our team ventured north into eastern Colorado in hopes of seeing storms with better visibility. The smoke coming from the wildfires in Mexico had been impeding our vision, and the storm … Continue reading
WKU Storm Chase Day 4
The WKU Storm Chasers started their fourth involved chase day in the city of Manhattan Kansas. The SPC Day 1 Convective Outlook had a moderate risk area stretching from northern Oklahoma up into central Missouri and parts of south east … Continue reading
WKU Storm Chase Day 3
Day 3 was another intense chasing day for the WKU storm chasers. The SPC Day 1 Convective Outlook highlighted much of Missouri and the northern half of Arkansas with an enhanced risk while much of Kansas remained under a slight … Continue reading
Out of the Ice Box For Now…
Welcome to the first day of February, if you can believe it! Hope you all survived our brief stint in the ice box. The good news is for now at least, we are going to recover our temperatures quite nicely … Continue reading
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Tagged kywx, Meteorology, Weekend Outlook, WKU
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WKU Storm Chase 2016 – Day 1
Greetings, and welcome to the official blog of the 7th Annual WKU Weather Analysis and Forecasting Field Methods Course (a.k.a. Storm Chase)! Daily updates on the group’s activities and targets will be posted here. Last week, our team of students … Continue reading
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Tagged great plains, Oklahoma, severe weather, Storm Chase, Texas, WKU
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Storm Chase 2015, Day 9
Today, we started our chase day in Stephenville, Texas with a target of Canadian, Texas for the afternoon. The surface analysis shows the observations from the morning conditions before chasing, as well as parameters the models were outputting for the … Continue reading
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Day 3 – Travel Day
Day 3 of our chase shaped up to be a transition day on the road as the frontal boundary responsible for the initiation of thunderstorms on our first two days continued on a persistent southward progression. Numerical weather models were … Continue reading
Storm Chase 2015, Day 1
Our trip to the Great Plains began with a few road delays, but after 13 hours of persistent travelling we eventually reached our destination in Hays, KS. Nonetheless, our first objective of this trip was to pick up our friend … Continue reading
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Tagged Kansas, Meteorology, Oklahoma, Storm Chase, Texas, WKU
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Winter Storm Warning for Bowling Green
Sunday – High 24: Sunday Night – Low 21 A major Winter Storm is headed toward south central Kentucky, with Bowling Green currently in the bulls-eye for model guidance snowfall accumulation. While the models have been all over the place … Continue reading
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Tagged Arctic Air, blizzard, bowling green, Cold, forecast, kentucky, Monday, snow, snow storm, south central Kentucky, Sunday, weather, weekend, Winter Storm, winter storm warning, WKU
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