SCT WEATHER AND CHASE BLOG

2021 Schedule and Two Special Edition Workshops Announced!

Sep 17, 2020

 

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Mothership Madness - Apex Chase August 6th, 2019 Part III - Escape

Mar 08, 2020

Part III - Escaping Alien Invasion At approximately 8:20pm CST, our chase began to wind down, or at least so we thought. The sunset's last flicker of light had illuminated the highest tops of our mothership storm and blue hour began to creep in, bringing lower light and much more visible lightning. Our storm, beginning to descend further away from us to the southeast, but still close enough to create dramatic compositions and observations, still intrigued us enough to continue making ...

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Mothership Madness - Apex Chase August 6th, 2019 Part II - Arrival

Mar 05, 2020

Part II - An early evening mothership ballet As we continued onto the second phase of our August 6th event, we encountered a defining moment that every storm chaser dreams of. Intercepting a long track beautiful mothership supercell with a great road network, little traffic and plentiful escape routes.  Today's second part recalls the science and observations of our 2019 apex Mothership interception in South Dakota on an incredible early evening.Recalling our exit from ...

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Mothership Madness - Apex Chase August 6th, 2019 Part I

Mar 02, 2020

 Part I - A wild South Dakota HP Supercell appears  On August 6, 2019 the culmination of our team's forecasting and real time observations provided the most impressive storm of our chase season.In this upcoming 3 day blog we will discuss the planning, the forecasting and of course the incredible storm that tracked through central South Dakota to northeast Nebraska. This apex chase delivered incredible beautiful sculpted mesocyclones, large hail, intense lightning and ...

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