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Slight Risk: 6/13/14
The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has issued a Slight Risk for today. Associated with the Slight Risk is a 5% Tornado Ring. Realistically, I would be much more likely to chase the NM/TX threat than the NE/SD/WY threat due to … Continue reading
Posted in Practicing Concepts, Predictions
Tagged 5% tornado ring, meteorology, slight risk, weather, weather forecast, weather prediction
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Chase Day #9: 362 Miles
I promised more from yesterday’s “potential” chase. It turned into another storm chase day. The Slight Risk that had been issued yesterday quickly turned into a Tornado Watch for the eastern part of New Mexico. Originally, we targeted Springer, NM … Continue reading
Slight Risk: 6/7/14
I wrote this post at 8:30 am local time, but forgot to hit “Publish” The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has issued a Slight Risk for parts of the southern Great Plains today. Associated with this risk is a 5% Tornado … Continue reading
Slight Risk: 6/4/14
Yesterday, I was not too far off- at least for storms. I called the northwest corner of Kansas, and if I’d dropped south, I would have seen some discrete cells near Garden City. Or, I could have ventured north into … Continue reading
Moderate Risk: 6/3/14
The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has issued a Moderate Risk for parts of the Northern Great Plains today. Associated with the Moderate Risk is a hatched 10% Tornado Threat Ring: The SPC has also issued a Public Severe Weather Outlook … Continue reading
Follow Up and Upcoming Moderate Risk
It looks like there were some tornadoes associated with yesterday’s Slight Risk. There weren’t many tornadoes in my target area, but I might have been able to see discrete cells versus the line that you would have needed to endure … Continue reading
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Tagged 2% tornado ring, meteorology, severe weather, slight risk, storm, tornado, weather, weather prediction
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Slight Risk: 6/1/14
The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has issued a Slight Risk for parts of the high plains today. Associated with this Slight Risk is a 5% Tornado Threat Ring: The SPC issued the risk on the basis that the trough will … Continue reading
Slight Risk: 5/31/14
The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) has issued a Slight Risk for the northern High Plains today. Associated with the Slight Risk is a 2% Tornado Threat Ring. The SPC has issued this risk based on a shortwave trough and southwesterly … Continue reading
Posted in Practicing Concepts, Predictions, Radar Imagery, Satellite Imagery
Tagged 2% tornado ring, bow echo, colorado, colorado springs, meteorology, radar, satellite, severe weather, slight risk, tail end charlie, TBSS, three body scatter, weather, weather forecasting, weather prediction
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Chase Day #3: 514 Miles
Yesterday began in Fort Stockton, TX. We were in the middle of a 2% Tornado Threat Ring, which then upgraded to a 5% Tornado Threat Ring. The sounding below is the best one of the day- out of Midland, TX: … Continue reading
Posted in Chase Account
Tagged cloud photo, meteorology, photography, storm, storm chasing, tornado, travel, weather, weather forecasting, weather photo, weather prediction
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Chase Day #2: 338 Miles
Yesterday, we began in Clovis, NM. The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) had issued a Slight Risk for an area on the NM/TX border to the very south. Based on the Midland, TX sounding, we targeted somewhere near Midland. There was … Continue reading
Posted in Chase Account, Ham Radio
Tagged meteorology, NM, severe weather, Skywarn, slight risk, storm, storm chase, supercell, TX, weather, weather forecast, weather photography, weather prediction
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