Today is the day. The 1 year anniversary of 757/Blacksburg Storm Chasing. This is usually the part where I say "we've come a long way in the past year", but we haven't really gone anywhere. Yet. Before I get sidetracked, here's today's picture: After reaching South Boston, we gave up any hope of continuing the... Continue Reading →

Today we take one last look at the Danville shelf as the chasers became the chased on Rt 58. Aside from when we first got under it in Danville, this was the most ominous the shelf looked while we were on it.

While we were looking for the parking lot that we used in yesterday's highlight, we managed to catch a good view of the wall cloud without precip getting in the way.

We've come to one of my favorite parts of this chase. After letting the Gretna supercell cross Hwy 29 to our north, we pursued to find a better vantage point. A couple miles up the road, we found a school and pulled off to this view. We had it all. A visible mesocyclone, a precip... Continue Reading →

Ah, yes....Danville.... after giving up on waiting for the tornado warning we were under to....y'know.... actually do something, we headed into Danville to see what was going on and we ended up being greeted by the shelf that we looked at a few days ago. After poking around and getting time-lapse footage of the shelf, we decided... Continue Reading →

Now we finally get to look at the storm of the day. Here we got our first glimpse of the Gretna supercell before it crossed the ridge to the west. Originally I thought this was from later after it passed us due to the curvature of the clouds that resembled inflow, but a closer look confirmed... Continue Reading →

If you've made it this far, congratulations. It finally starts to get interesting. After the "storm of the day" (more to come on that later), we went down to Danville to wait for the main event coming up out of NC. We were immediately greeted by a tornado warning, so we set up near the... Continue Reading →

Our third selection is very similar to yesterday. It comes from basically the same time and place, but there's a little more to look at, notably the remnants of the shelf that had just passed over us after chasing us all the way from Danville to South Boston. (Or at least I believe that's what... Continue Reading →

Today's flashback is from one of the boring parts of the chase. I believe we had just surrendered to the squall line (or possibly QLCS) that came out of NC and chased us from Danville to South Boston (sounds a lot like 4/15/18, doesn't it?). With my camera still out, I noted the way the... Continue Reading →

Here we go with our look back to last year. Starting with the least impressive, this is one of the first attempted cell of the day. At this point, we're looking west from Hwy 29 just north of Gretna, VA. We'll be seeing much more of this area (just not this "cell" over the next... Continue Reading →