Tracking Weather Across the State
A cold front will make its way across eastern Iowa today, bringing with it the trigger needed to spark severe thunderstorms in a rapidly destabilizing atmosphere. Per the Storm Prediction Center’s forecast, there is also the potential of rotating supercells. The best area for any tornadic development in our area [...]
Storms this weekend remain likely as a cold front is expected to pass through eastern Iowa Saturday afternoon/evening. The front should be the focal point to develop a quick moving segment of storms capable of producing large hail and damaging winds. It is likely there will be plenty of energy [...]
The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch until 7:00pm for eastern Iowa. Storms developing in unstable atmosphere have the capability of producing large hail and damaging winds. The tornado threat appears minimal but further development will be monitored. Read the raw text from the [...]
The Storm Prediction Center is placing all of eastern Iowa under a slight risk for Saturday. The threat comes from a cold front expected to pass through the state during the “prime time” late afternoon and evening hours. It appears the primary threat with this expected severe weather event will [...]
I know this is a blog about stormchasing and the tracking of storms, but it is hard for me to sit on the sidelines and not comment about today’s tragic events. What happened on June 24, 2009 is far different from what happened on May 25, 2008. More than a [...]
After a destructive wind event toppled trees, power lines and damaged buildings across eastern Iowa, mother nature is already whipping up several more chances for severe weather this week. Of course the main concern is focused on today, as waves of energy continue to focus threats of thunderstorms across eastern [...]
The Storm Prediction Center has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for much of northern Iowa until 6:00PM. The watch is for a line of severe thunderstorms taking shape in northwest Iowa. With extremely high CAPE values in the state, it’s expected that a damaging wind event could take shape across [...]
The Storm Prediction Center has placed much of Iowa under a slight risk for severe weather. Current thinking is a complex of severe thunderstorms will develop somewhere to the west of Iowa. If it can hold its act together in the evening/overnight hours, we could see a nocturnal severe weather [...]
Here are a few photos from our chase in Benton and Iowa County Sunday Night. There are a couple of panoramic shots in here I invite you to look at in full resolution. Just go to ‘View Full Album’ and click on the panoramic shots, you should be able to [...]
View Full Album Tornadic storm develop near Belle Plaine, Marengo and Conroy. Lots of rotation, but no touchdowns.
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