Friday July 18th 2008 Eastern CO

My chase vehicle is good for other activities

Sunday July 6th 2008

Dang it, I was white water rafting today and there were tornado warnings in eastern colorado and an observed tornado in northwest Kansas today! Why!?! whyy

Wed July 2nd East of Fort Collins, CO

Caught this funnel east of fort collins, the rest of the storm chase was a bust because the cold front just gave me a lot of crap (rain). I did a lot of work to get off work early too, I expected more to come out of the northern area in WY because of the shear profiles. However the cold front didnt allow for that, and the dew points were pretty high in northeast colorado, so my decision to go north.. why? lol and the cell that we saw a funnel on right after i left the mountains later became tornado warned on the east side of fort morgan.

June 20th 2008 Eastern Colorado

This chase was perfect, I didnt even expect to go on this chase. I was hanging out just keeping an eye on the weather. Around 4pm I decided to head out to these high based cells that were forming off the Cheyenne ridge and headed southeast to the east of Greeley. I went out and just sat under high based storms knowing they would move into higher dew points. These cells converged and created a beautiful super cell. Skinner was my now caster/navigator from the hospital, he had to navigate to a pin point for me because the RFD and Tornado was on my bumper!! I stayed in front of it from wiggins where I got tennisball size hail and then I got caught in the RFD where 70-80mph winds almost tipped my car. I then headed south southeast to work my way to Agate, CO where 9 news took these pictures and Cory Green ran into me where he rode the rest of the storm chase out with me. We paralleled the storm from limon southeast to a rest stop where the tornado warning expired so we waited for the hail core to pass over us. I got my helmet and goggles on and walked around in the hail. It was pretty funny cause Roger Hill's tour group was parked next to us, I bet they said hes crazy! It was great because I was always in the right spot at the right time, thanks to skinner as well. He saved my life a couple times! Skinner is editing the video right now so it should be up on here soon, keep checking!

Chasing today, Home town or West Kansas

We are trying to decide if we want to go to the favorable area in Northern KS, or stay at home due to the tornado risk here, the dewpoints are in the 50s in Greeley and there is a southeast wind component. The vertical motion is high and the setup looks similar to Thursday May 22nd when Windsor got hit. That is our delima, as soon as we would go east...wedge in Greeley.

Tornado Trend this year compared to Normal

As you can see the normal trends on the left, and this years trend completely off the chart.