• Heat Could Help Produce Some Severe Weather

    Heat Could Help Produce Some Severe Weather

    Call it a ‘fluid’ forecast as the mercury rises across Iowa this week. More hot weather is on the way, especially as we head into the weekend. In the meantime, our warmth will aid the potential for severe thunderstorm development across portions of the Upper Midwest. At this time, these [...]

     
  • Wide Threat for the Plains, Break for Upper Midwest

    Wide Threat for the Plains, Break for Upper Midwest

    We thought we would draw up an outlook today for our fans to the west of Iowa.  A very complex weather system has set up shop across several states.  Iowa is not one of them as a high pressure system should eliminate the threat of severe weather here. Today’s threat [...]

     
  • Taking The Forecast Day By Day

    Taking The Forecast Day By Day

    The headline tells it all. A very active weather pattern is setting up across the Upper Midwest for the next few days. This will mean a lot of heat, a lot of thunderstorms and potentially a lot of rain which could add to recent flooding concerns. For now we’re going [...]

     
  • NWS Rates Iowa’s Latest Tornado Outbreak

    NWS Rates Iowa’s Latest Tornado Outbreak

    It was certainly a long and trying day for a lot of people here in Iowa.  Rather than a powerful and independent supercell, northern Iowa saw a training pattern of supercells track across the same area one by one.  The strongest of these supercells formed near the town of Belmond.  [...]

     
  • Weekend Washout?

    Weekend Washout?

    After a very active day in northern Iowa yesterday, we are now looking at the likelihood of a rainy weekend but we aren’t expecting anything like what we saw yesterday. Early Friday morning we will see some showers in western and they will diminish before they reach central Iowa, then [...]

     
 
 
 

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  • Heat Could Help Produce Some Severe Weather

    Heat Could Help Produce Some Severe Weather

    Call it a ‘fluid’ forecast as the mercury rises across Iowa this week. More hot weather is on the way, especially as we head into the weekend. In the meantime, our warmth will aid the potential for severe thunderstorm development across portions of the Upper Midwest. At this time, these [...]

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  • Wide Threat for the Plains, Break for Upper Midwest

    Wide Threat for the Plains, Break for Upper Midwest

    We thought we would draw up an outlook today for our fans to the west of Iowa.  A very complex weather system has set up shop across several states.  Iowa is not one of them as a high pressure system should eliminate the threat of severe weather here. Today’s threat [...]

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  • Taking The Forecast Day By Day

    Taking The Forecast Day By Day

    The headline tells it all. A very active weather pattern is setting up across the Upper Midwest for the next few days. This will mean a lot of heat, a lot of thunderstorms and potentially a lot of rain which could add to recent flooding concerns. For now we’re going [...]

    continue reading »

     
     
  • NWS Rates Iowa’s Latest Tornado Outbreak

    NWS Rates Iowa’s Latest Tornado Outbreak

    It was certainly a long and trying day for a lot of people here in Iowa.  Rather than a powerful and independent supercell, northern Iowa saw a training pattern of supercells track across the same area one by one.  The strongest of these supercells formed near the town of Belmond.  [...]

    continue reading »

     
     
  • Weekend Washout?

    Weekend Washout?

    After a very active day in northern Iowa yesterday, we are now looking at the likelihood of a rainy weekend but we aren’t expecting anything like what we saw yesterday. Early Friday morning we will see some showers in western and they will diminish before they reach central Iowa, then [...]

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  • Storms Live Up to the Threat

    Storms Live Up to the Threat

    Earlier today we urged our fans to spread the word about today’s serious threat for severe weather.  Before we get into details we want to thank EVERYONE who alerted their friends and family.  Damage was done but so far it appears serious injuries were avoided here in Iowa. That doesn’t [...]

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  • BREAKING: MAJOR OUTBREAK EXPECTED

    BREAKING: MAJOR OUTBREAK EXPECTED

    Forget the fine details, I simply cannot stress this enough, EVERYONE in the risk area above needs to be aware of the serious threat for not only severe weather, but widespread and catastrophic severe weather.  There is an exceptional risk for tornadoes across eastern Iowa and Illinois. Some of these [...]

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  • Putting Focus Back on the Chase

    Putting Focus Back on the Chase

    After a very rough week with the loss of our colleagues at Twistex in Oklahoma, we have taken our eye off the forecast a bit.  That’s to be expected and I think we are all ready to move on and get back into the swing of things so here we [...]

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  • A Discussion on Storm Chasing

    A Discussion on Storm Chasing

    I want to thank Simon Conway of Newsradio WHO 1040 in Des Moines for inviting me on this afternoon to talk about storm chasing.  Our conversation touched on a lot of topics and I really appreciated the time he took to talk about our profession.  You can hear our entire [...]

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  • Storms Could Return Tuesday

    Storms Could Return Tuesday

    We are hoping to return to a little bit of normal here at Iowa Storm Chasing, and there is no better way to do that than to once again focus on the forecast. We are looking at an approaching storm system that could impact parts of Iowa, especially areas west [...]

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