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Severe storms and flooding concerns are the main topics in this forecast, and both are possible today. Southerly winds ahead of an advancing cold front will lead to temperatures warming into the mid 70s. The Storm Prediction Center has outlined the region in an “enhanced” risk of severe weather. Think of this as a level […]
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Storm Chase Day 3: Waynoka, Oklahoma
Thursday was one of the best days of my life. It was a rewarding day after putting in hours of work on analysis, hand analysis and just thinking about the forecast in general. We began the Storm Chase in Woodward, Oklahoma looking to figure out where in the world we were gonna go. It was an extremely […]
WKU Storm Chase Recap: Day 1
Well, as many of you know, myself and contributor Jessica Dobson are currently in the plains to storm chase with the WKU Storm Chase Class! We left May 15th, and will be out on the Great Plains (absolutely beautiful, by the way) for two weeks. I thought it would be cool and interesting to give the readers […]
Severe Weather Possible Again Tomorrow
Posted by Landon Hampton on Tuesday, April 4, 2017 Discussion Well, this is looking like one doozy of a forecast across the region. What has changed, though!? Today looks really nice actually. We are looking at mostly sunny skies for the majority of the day, with some clouds creeping in here by this evening. Highs […]
“Winter” 2016-17: We Hardly Knew Ye
And when I say hardly, I mean hardly. When you think of winter you think of something like…this: But for the most part, no. Winter looked nothing like that. We had a couple of snow “events” in the past 3 months but nothing worth writing home about. This should give you an effective summary of our […]
Severe Weather, Including Possible Tornadoes, Strikes South-Central Kentucky
The storm system that impacted south central Kentucky late last night into the early morning hours of today was poised to be the greatest threat for severe weather in quite some time. In terms of the number of severe weather reports, it didn’t disappoint in that respect… The Storm Prediction Center nailed their forecast for […]
Mid-Afternoon Severe Weather Update
Since this morning’s blog post, the severe weather threat across the region has increased substantially, with mesoscale models showing discrete supercells developing this evening to our southwest. As you can see above, the SPC has placed us in an Enhanced Risk for severe weather, with a Moderate Risk to our northwest. The ingredients look to […]
San Antonio, TX Sees Damaging Tornadoes
On Sunday afternoon, a mid and upper level trough dug into the south-central US. This drew unseasonably high moisture values, and temperatures into the region. The SPC had outlined a severe threat in this region for a few days, but the threat didn’t look as great the day of the event. Wind vectors in the […]
WON vlog 2/11/17
Isolated to widely scattered rain chances join warm, breezy conditions today, before rain chances become widespread overnight. The passing of a cold front brings much colder air Sunday into Monday. Details in this morning’s vlog:
Devastating Tornado Outbreak Across the South
On Friday afternoon, Contributor Evan Hatter previewed what was likely to be a pretty substantial severe weather outbreak across the southern US over the weekend. Models had been hinting at it for several days by that point, and they were honing in on a multi-day, multi-round severe weather episode across much of the south, extending […]