Stormchase USA 2013

Welcome to the storm chase blog of Markus Pfister and Gregory Käser!
We will travel around the tornado alley this May and pursue the unique beauty of nature forces.
We enjoy making you, dear reader, feel like accompanying us on the adventure, and we hope to find the big cloud and the ravaging storms.

Herzlich Willkommen auf dem diesjährigen Stormchase USA blog!
Wir sind fast den ganzen Mai unterwegs und jagen den unvergleichlichen Stürmen der Tornado-Alley hinterher.
Wir freuen uns, Euch, liebe Leser, auf der Reise dabei zu haben und hoffen, einiges an Foto- und Videomaterial liefern zu können!

Daily Rating:

1 = no significant weather spottet - nicht viel Wetter gesehen
2 = well, it was rather interesting, weatherwise - war wettermässig doch ganz interessant
3 = a very good day with tons of thunder/hail/lightning - ein sehr guter Tag mit viel Gewitter/Blitz/Hagel-Action
4 = extreme severe weather/rotating supercells/big hail spotted - extreme Entwicklungen/Rotationen/Grosshagel gesehen
5 = well developed tornado or giant hail spotted - gut ausgebildeten Tornado/Riesenhagel gesehen

04.05.2013

Zürich CH - Dallas TX - Weatherford TX: Flight, entry, rental car

05.05.2013

Weatherford TX - Midland TX: Tech setup, halo, circum horizontal arc

06.05.2013

Midland TX - Levelland TX: King mountain, abandoned place, dusty thunderstorm

07.05.2013

Levelland TX - Greensburg KS: Caprock, fotogenic evening cell, nightly mothership

08.05.2013

Greensburg KS - Seiling OK: Big Well museum, LP super cell, nightly lightning

09.05.2013

Seiling OK - Coleman TX: Hollis red river bridge, hailstorm in Quanah

10.05.2013

Coleman TX - George West TX: Edwards Mountains, Eagle Pass bust, big hail in Pearsall

11.05.2013

George West TX - Port Aransas TX: Corpus Christi sight seeing, bath in Gulf of Mexico

12.05.2013

Port Aransas TX - Alpine TX: Trans-Pecos, Seminole Canyon, abandoned cars

13.05.2013

Alpine TX - Alpine TX: Big Bend National Park, Terlingua Ghost Town, Cattail Falls

14.05.2013

Alpine TX - San Angelo TX: Core Punch, low fractus, lightning spectacle

15.05.2013

San Angelo TX - Abilene TX: Overshooting top of tornadic super cell at Millsap

16.05.2013

Abilene TX - Ness City KS: Weak panhandle thunderstorms

17.05.2013

Ness City KS - McCook NE: Downday between the action zones

18.05.2013

McCook NE - Anthony KS: Jetmore initiation, chaser convergence, missed Rozel

19.05.2013

Anthony KS - Stillwater OK: Viola tornado, lightning firework, great evening light

20.05.2013

Stillwater OK - Denton TX: Marlow initiation, funnel, canon thunder, bad news from Moore

21.05.2013

Denton TX - Lubbock TX: Drizzle bust in Waco, repositioning in TX-Panhandle

22.05.2013

Lubbock TX: National Weather Service visit, sightseeing try in Lubbock

23.05.2013

Lubbock TX - Snyder TX: Floydada dust devils, drive into haboob, flash flood finish

24.05.2013

Snyder TX - McCook NE: Drive north, Goodland LP structure, evening lightning flicker

25.05.2013

McCook NE - Ogallala - McCook NE: Sandhill bust, super mammatus at Hitchcock county

26.05.2013

McCook NE - Kearney NE: Epic low precipitation super cell near Broken Bow

27.05.2013

Kearney NE - Smith Center KS: HP monster with rain wrapped tornado at Smith Center

28.05.2013

Smith Center KS - Salina KS: Old church, stationary wedge tornado near Bennington

29.05.2013

Salina KS - Wichita KS: Weak storm with gust front wind measurement near St. John

30.05.2013

Wichita KS - Stillwater OK: Two rounds of storms east of Guthrie, nice structure

31.05.2013

Stillwater OK - Decatur TX: Difficult chase of El Reno multi vortex tornado

01.06.2013

Decatur TX - Zürich CH: Travel home, further reading about El Reno tragedy