Terry Sasser sent us this image from his Gibson Ridge with Spotter Network activated showing all of the chasers lined up across southern Kansas earlier today. There have been over two dozen reports of tornadoes today so far. And the event is just getting started. The extremely high winds aloft are just nosing into Kansas. […]
April 14, 1935 dawned as a beautiful spring Sunday across the Plains of Colorado and Kansas southward into Texas. Residents of the Plains had been beleaguered for four years of dust storms as drought gripped the region. Farmers continued to plow their land, betting that the rains would return. They had settled on the Plains […]
Two of our crack Alabama storm chasers are in the heart of the high risk today over the Plains states today. Mike Wilhelm and John Brown are in the Oklahoma/Kansas area waiting for the storms to fire. You can already see signs of convective initiation from southwestern Kansas through the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles. Instabilities […]
The latest edition of the ABC 33/40 Weather Xtreme Video is available in the player below. You can subscribe to the Weather Xtreme Video on iTunes by clicking here. Big weather day in store for the Nation’s mid-section where the SPC has outlined a high risk for severe weather across the area including the eastern […]
A significant outbreak of severe weather is expected today across the middle of the United States. First let me say that this system will arrive in Alabama on Monday afternoon and evening, but it will not have the same level of danger when it gets to us. We will have decent instability on Monday, and […]
Our long time friend, mentor, and charter Weather Factory member, J.B. Elliott, passed away on May 11, 2015. Click HERE to read James' tribute.
