Tracking Weather Across the State
That phrase rings true in romance, comedy and yes… even weather. With plenty of uncertainty in the models, confidence of a severe weather threat in Iowa this weekend is low. The best chance for any organized storms will rest in western Iowa… because of timing. Most models agree storm initiation [...]
In my experience, the first week or two of April generally brings an early dose of severe weather to Iowa. With that in mind, eastern Iowa is facing a pair of storm systems that might do just that. Of course I want to be clear, this is all very speculative [...]
Since the early 90’s, Americans have learned the word NEXRAD. The radars used by the National Weather Service has a real name though, WSR-88D. But since that’s not very sexy, to the public they’re known as NEXt generation RADar, or NEXRAD. Trouble is, it’s been a full generation since their [...]
Greg Carbin is the Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the Storm Prediction Center. He came to the Severe Weather and Doppler Radar Conference to show off some products the public doesn’t get to see. The reason they’re not public is because they are still highly experimental and not reliable. But as [...]
A pair of speakers Friday morning at the Severe Storms and Doppler Radar Conference in Des Moines presenting some interesting information on tornadoes, the discoveries and ongoing mysteries that surround them. First off, the key to understanding tornadoes lies in the hands of storm chasers. Much of the mystery surrounding [...]
Chances are you don’t know the name Tim Samaras. But it’s quite possible you’ve seen some of his dramatic work. Tim is one of the storm chasers followed by the Discovery Channel program “Storm Chasers.” Samaras operates a research group called TWISTEX. The chase team consists of four vehicles. Three [...]
For the first session of the 2010 Severe Storms and Doppler Radar Conference in Des Moines, IA, we all got a taste of what it’s like to work at the National Weather Service. Some guys far more intelligent than me took a monster severe weather outbreak from a couple years [...]
With spring now officially here, preparations continue for the coming severe weather season. For me, that’s meant preparing a bevy of new equipment. New vehicle, new tools and new method of relaying information. It’s been a long and tedious process but I’m hopeful it will all pay off. Now it’s [...]
KCRG-TV 9’s Justin Gehrts wrote a great blog today about one of the biggest tornado outbreaks in state history… and it was in March! 20 years ago today, the tornado outbreak dropped 14 tornadoes in Iowa. Including an F4 near Worthington. Could this year produce a similar winter season storm [...]
First of, I want to say some in the media have done a good and accurate job in explaining what high risks for flooding really mean. No matter what there will always be people who hear the word flood and think of 2008. That is our personal history, one that [...]
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