Tornadoes aren't that cool, says the dude who is not that cool

My 2026 new years resolution is to go storm chasing

This tornado drifted aimlessly for 45 minutes over open country and did basically nothing. A+ work.

From @AGU.org: Senators are working on legislation to save NCAR, but we need extra support for these 8 states. Your Senators in Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, and Wyoming need to hear from you.

When the storm barely looks like a storm but it's producing a sick tornado 🤷😱

My phone has been enjoying microwaving sunsets off the deck for the past week

I wonder if the people who own this place know that I have more pictures of their house than their realtor does

It's been 7 years since shooting 720p video was acceptable (or more), and it has also been 7 years since the most impactful tornado outbreak in December in Illinois. This one was the last of six we saw before the sun completely set at 4:30 PM 🫠

When storms look like spaceships I try to imagine what it would have been like a thousand years ago before there was widespread knowledge of the science that could explain why a spaceship is floating on by

This hybrid tornado was arguably second coolest thing to happen in the vicinity of North Platte, Nebraska in 2025. The coolest thing, obviously, was Chick-fil-a giving me an extra chicken tender that one time

Is it violent wedge season yet

A collection of different - yet oddly similar - things on the high plains. Watching the sun set to the west while a massive storm rages in between is one of life's guilty pleasures.

Here it is. The last 10 years of hail events across the U.S. using my prototype hail tracking algorithm! Hoping to build out a more robust climatology of hailstorms like we have for tornadoes.

I guess random backyard supercell season really does not ever end

A storm with its tornado, parading through canyons in Texas, shows off the whole anatomy of a supercell. Nothing I wouldn't give to have had a road in from the northeast on this one, but nope.

In the year of everything awesome in storm chasing world, the monsoon has been nonexistent. So I'll take whatever heavily cropped, slightly overexposed bolts I can get 😀

One year ago today I was making what may be the easiest forecast of my life in central South Dakota. This long-lived tornado was just the icing we all knew was coming to top off the cake. 8.28.2024 - Mound City, SD

20 years ago

I have actually never grappled with this question for even one microsecond but sure

These stories are heart rending - but I am so thankful these parents are speaking out. We absolutely cannot act like what happened on July 4th was an unpreventable act of God - we CAN be better prepared and keep people safer. Reupping my post on what needs to improve: tinyurl.com/37n8t9ez

Out of the small handful of storms I have actually chased in 2025, the majority of them have been terrible. And yet several of them, including this one, keep breaking my windshield anyway. You're supposed to be good if you want the right to do that, storm.

Structure hipstering

But Mouse, you are not alone. In proving foresight may be vain: The best-laid schemes of mice and men go oft awry, and leave us nothing but grief and pain for promised joy!

Anyone wanna go to storm chaser prom with me

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Structure of the year

Smoky backyard supercell time

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In areas hit by Texas floods, officials were sent over $5 million in federal ARPA funds in 2021. They didn't want to spend it on flood warning systems due to their disdain for Biden - and didn't send it BACK because it might go to a blue state, and "values that we in Kerr county don't agree with."

Two years ago I got to see what nature does when it really, really does not like that one exact spot in particular. 6.28.2023 - Kimball, Nebraska

Replacing the NAM and HREF with the RRFS in early 2026 is a really bad idea IMHO. The RRFS does not handle low-level cold air masses nearly as well as the NAM and a couple other HREF members, although they can be too aggressive with low-level cold air.

This, somehow, is the "other" thing that day two years ago. I saw that the bigger tornado earlier detached and stayed west of the parent storm for much of its life, so I stayed west of the storm from then on and it paid off with the dumbest sunset I will ever see. 6.23.2023 - Johnson, Kansas

I've never really known what to share from this storm - the twins, the structure, the stationary stovepipe, or the ropeout - so here's all of the above. Two years ago to the day and it has not been topped since. 6.23.2023 - Granada, Colorado

A collection of three updrafts rolling over Cheyenne Mountain so far today

It's been two years since a tornado took three lives in Perryton, Texas along a zippering dryline. I've never posted my video of that tornado. This one is a different tornado - it occurred a half hour or so later south of town and did no damage. 6.15.2023 - Perryton, Texas

I couldn't chase on Mulvane day since I was 8 years old (bad excuse, I know), so here's my June 12 anniversary contribution. Smashing my windshield to bits in the baseball sized hail to get into this spot was a wild choice, but it worked out. 6.12.2021 - Las Vegas, New Mexico

A vertical, wide shot of a dusty tornado in Texas back in April. There's hopefully more where this came from before too long.

The Onion has gone out of business

Another day, another shelf cloud

Supercells towering over you from the deck hit different

Scientists saved lives. The village was evacuated a week ago. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Happy May 28

Since the wildland firefighting militia has been gutted by Musk/DOGE’s incentives to leave the government, the USFS plans on *bringing people who took the DRP back to fight fire this summer.* This should be a HUGE story. Absolute fucking clown shit from the big-brained boys at DOGE. 🤡💩

Historically, the Texas Panhandle doesn't have a favored month, but when it works in June it works in big ways. This is just one example. Feels like we'll be back there in the next couple weeks for more 🌪️

The EF -1 tornado on the Palmer Divide yesterday at about 4 PM. Next time I see a tornado this weak I'm going to run into it. 5.24.2025 - Elbert, CO

The ultimate conundrum - do I get closer, or do I sit back at the edge of the hail and watch a tornado with the structure overhead? I keep choosing the latter. Must be getting old. 5.19.2025 - Arnett, OK

There was some spouty stuff on Wednesday, now a couple days off before Saturday-Monday 👀

One of my favorite tornado timelapses is this one, the entire life cycle of last summer's Mound City, South Dakota long lived tornado. So much fun to watch a forecast verify so spectacularly.

When you see a violent tornado you know it. No question in your mind. The two strongest tornadoes of the third largest tornado outbreak in recent times came from this storm and, with a high risk forecasted and advanced warnings from the National Weather Service, neither killed anyone.

Tornadoes don't always show up where they're supposed to. This one felt completely wrong. In theory, it should be to the right, out of frame. 6.23.22 - Wilson, Kansas