The ‘Covid Season’; 2020 was one of the most unusual chasing seasons I had ever experienced. The Covid pandemic was well underway, and travel was severely restricted across the US. Fortunately, while we were all in quarantine, so was Ma-Nature, who had one of the slowest seasons I can remember. While not a good thing for chasers in a normal year, this kinda worked out as it gave us less of an excuse to be out and about. Still, I managed a few chases, some even out of state, and despite the lack of good opportunities, I managed to score one legit tornado which saved my ongoing streak of consecutive years seeing at least one tornado starting back in 2003.
2020 Storm Chase Logs
| TOTAL MILES: | 8,179 |
| TOTAL CHASES: | 10 |
| TOTAL TORNADOES | 2 |
| TORNADO DAYS: | 2 |
| TORNADO AVG: | 0.200 |
| TOTAL SPOTTER: | 12 |
| TOTAL ALL LOGS: | 22 |
| 1K CHASES: | 0 |
Full Write-Up
Southern Kansas
Chase Miles:
62
Quick and easy chase from my house in Wichita, just plunged myself into a line of severe storms, documenting some of the tree damage north of Wichita before returning home to rain and lightning.
Tornadoes:
None
Hail:
None
Flooding:
None Observed
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Southern South Dakota
Chase Miles:
935
A bucket list chase to track a storm across the South Dakota Badlands; hurricane-force winds and one of the most incredible post-storm sunsets ever!
Tornadoes:
None
Hail:
None
Flooding:
Urban Flooding
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Central Kansas
Chase Miles:
414
Tracked a slow-moving, southward-moving MONSTER hailer in central Kansas that unleashed hail upon the towns of Otis and Lewis.
Tornadoes:
None
Hail:
2.25"
Flooding:
None Observed
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Central Nebraska
Chase Miles:
687
An incredible supercell in central Nebraska yielded my only legit tornado of 2020, saving a tornado-streak I had going for 17 years.
Tornadoes:
1
Hail:
None
Flooding:
None Observed
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Southern Kansas
Chase Miles:
408
Wrapped up a ludicrous stretch of weathermanning and chasing with a monster hailer in southwest Kansas that was a homerun derby of baseballs.
Tornadoes:
None
Hail:
2.75"
Flooding:
None Observed
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Southeast Kansas
Chase Miles:
420
A rather ho-hum hail chase during the day turned into a nearly all-night lightning-photography fest near Eureka, Kansas as the sky was filled with crawlers for hours!
Tornadoes:
None
Hail:
1.00"
Flooding:
None Observed
