April 2016 Storm Chase
Our spring break at Citytech this year was very late, and I was very burned out. However, when the Storm Prediction Center predicted strong storms in prime great plains chase territory during my break, I bought a plane ticket and headed out. I ended up driving over 1800 miles in the typical bizarre back and forth route which looks crazy when you're not looking at the weather radar:
I flew into Dallas Monday April 25 and then headed north to get in position for Tuesday. Tuesday was a difficult target decision since there was a broad area of severe weather forecast, but I ended up in southern Kansas on one of the only tornado-warned storms in the northern side of this large system. When the storm lined out I outran it and headed east to Joplin, Missouri to get in position for the Wednesday weather, but that ended up moving too far too fast, so instead I went to the amazing Crystal Bridges art museum in Bentonville, Arkansas, and then headed back west to Tulsa in time for a screening of Purple Rain. Thursday I headed back west towards the area south of Amarillo, and chase that area ending up in Vernon, Texas. Friday, I was supposed to head home but the threat of severe weather at the Dallas airport meant that I was able to delay my flight home by a day and chase Friday, and I ended up chasing all across southern Oklahoma, ending up back in Texas to fly home Saturday morning. So while I didn't see any tornadoes I did see a lot of really photogenic, severe storms and below are the results. I'll be selling these in my Etsy shop soon.
Full geo-tagged set posted here.