My 30th season kicks off with a supercell-filled day across southeast Illinois that ended in a blizzard of hail and an almost tornado near the Wabash River.
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Tony's Blogbach, Between the Isobars
March To Come in like a Lion
It’s been a minute since we’ve seen a multi-day stretch of outlooks from SPC. If you ignore the calendar, you could pretend this is May, but nope, welcome to the first week of March! I’m prepping here at home today to head out for that multi-day stint. It should all…
It’s Like Old Times Again
In the midst of this mass gear update, I’ve found myself kinda living back in old times. I remember in the early years, many trips to Ace Hardware, particularly the one in Lakewood off Alameda and Union, where I’d go in and buy various pieces to jimmy-rig my chase setup. …
Denver Will Go Nearly Snowless in February
If you take the screen shot of the forecast for Denver out of the present day context, you could easily confuse this for a week in mid-April. Warm, windy, never below freezing… but nope, this is how we’ll end February 2026, and honestly, you could sub this in for a…
Career Stats
Tactical Weather-Instrumented Sampling in/near Tornadoes Experiment
HAIL CHASES
FLOOD CHASES
LIGHTNING CHASES
MY CHASING HISTORY
The first chase, the first tornado, the May 14, 1997 Ohio-chase that started it all.
The number of Washington Redskins great, Art Monk, becomes a storm chasing icon.
In 22 years, 2 months, and 2 days, I drove half-a-million mile chasing storms across…
