07-27-09 CHASE LOG: WI Quite glad that I went out today as MaryLynn and I chased a couple of strong supercells through the rolling hills and trees that is southwest WI. It ended up being a surprisingly good day, all things considering. Upon leaving Burnsville, our course of action took us to Rochester, MN [...]
06-23-09 CHASE LOG: MN I went with Donya Gjerdingen to southern Minnesota to get out ahead of an quickly approaching severe thunderstorms with a massive shelf cloud. We left Northfield, Minnesota and drove down to east of Faribault, Minnesota on Highway 60 near the eastern shore of Cannon Lake. Here, the storm approached us [...]
06-17-09 CHASE LOG: MN Peggy Willenberg, Melanie Metz, MaryLynn and I decided to play the warm front this day and ended up heading down Hwy 169 from the Twin Cities to Algona, IA. On the way down, we did pass a developing storm with a VERY nice lowering near Elmore, IA. This storm was [...]
06-17-09 CHASE LOG: MN I chased with Twister Sister Peggy Willenberg today and we ended up targeting near the Mankato/New Ulm, Minnesota area for initiation. An intense supercell that later spawned the Austin, MN tornado quickly developed 25 miles southeast of Mankato and we were quickly on this storm near Geneva, MN. There was a large [...]
05-08-09 CHASE LOG: OK/TX Not a great day overall with rather weak shear and a cap till later in the day when storms were able to bust through. Models were consistently forecasting over near 5000 j/kg for the late afternoon and a non-capped atmosphere with precipitation breaking out in all the main model solutions. [...]
05-05-09 CHASE LOG: TX Not too bad for the first chase of the year! My wife and I started out the day in a cockroach infested motel room in Wichita Falls…actually by far the worst motel room I’ve ever slept in. Ended up meeting Theresa and Chris in Haskell where we sat around till [...]
