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April 30:
March and April of 2026 were very active months for storms in the Midwest. Despite my limitations for chasing out of the area, I was able to observe and capture several memorable events.
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April 25:
Another pair of classic Plains supercell tornado days looks to be on tap for today (Saturday) and tomorrow (Sunday) before the ejecting wave brings the final events of the sequence to the Midwest on Monday and Tuesday:
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April 20:
Models continue to show a somewhat active pattern across the southern Plains and Mid-South as moisture and fast upper-level flow are colocated.
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April 13:
We've had many discussions on Stormtrack about how much of the 1990-2010 era of storm chasing has vanished from the internet. This is happening as more and more chaser web sites go offline and modern-day chasers exclusively do little more than make fleeting posts on the unsearchable abyss of social media.
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April 7:
Models indicate a return to western upper troughing for at least 5 days starting this weekend, with attendant Gulf moisture return northward into the Great Plains. A sharpening dryline is shown by Sunday the 12th as the first of several shortwaves ejects out over the Plains/Midwest.
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March 31:
Peak tornado season is finally upon us here in the Plains and Midwest. As anticipated a week ago, we're entering a brief active interval as a couple of shortwave troughs eject across the country over returning Gulf moisture.
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March 23:
As we advance another week into March, the first days of April are beginning to move into the 10-day window of reasonable long-range forecasts.
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March 17:
As is often the case with early active severe weather patterns, we'll 'pay for it' with an extended period of downtime afterward.
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March 10:
I observed four tornadoes from Pontiac, Illinois to near Knox, Indiana on Tuesday, March 10, including a significant tornado on the south side of Kankakee.
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March 1:
It's that time of year again! We've made it through another long winter to the date storm chasers around the world celebrate: the start of meteorological spring and severe storms season in the Great Plains and Midwest. The green trees, warm temperatures and open roads of the Plains await us - and of course, the most spectacular storms on the planet!
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November 30:
The past two months have been mostly quiet, with a couple of nice events in middle November.
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September 22:
The end of summer 2025 also marked the end of my professional storm chasing/TV cameraman career. This distant lightning, viewed from just outside of my town of New Baden, Illinois on September 21 was a fitting metaphor for the dream that has become a memory, fading away into the night.
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June 30:
The peak of spring severe weather season this year was a challenging one, with several big misses and no "catch of the year" to speak of. Despite that, several tornado intercepts and high-speed lightning captures made it a productive 2 months.
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June 16:
It feels a little strange publishing my end-of-season Plains recap on the same day as one of the better tornadoes of the decade in western Nebraska, but that's storm chasing for you.
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