In September of 2005 when I was 10 years old, Rita, a category 5 hurricane, devastated the gulf of Mexico and changed the course of my life. I can remember us loading up our RV in preparation to follow right behind the storm to provide disaster relief. We loaded it up food, water, first aid materials, tools, chain saws and...
The day after Christmas is supposed to be a time for family celebrations, not tornadoes. A warm, moist 82° day is more like April than the end of December, but then again December 26, 2015 wasn’t an ordinary day. Storms were in the forecast and we knew they would be bad. I don’t get nervous chasing but this day was different. ...
On the night of May 15th, 2013, a large wedge tornado swept through the town of Granbury, Texas, wreaking havoc on the community. The people there were caught completely off-guard, because the super cell that housed this deadly tornado had taken an unprecedented turn. The storm began west of Weatherford, Texas, near Mineral Wells, and my dad and Mike Casey...
June 16, 2015 - Lingle, Wyoming Not a tree to be found for what seemed like hundreds of miles to obstruct our view of this gorgeous LP or "Low-Precipitation" supercell. Supercells in the south are more likely to be HP or "High-Precipitation" supercells. These cells make seeing tornadoes much harder as the cell is producing copious amounts of rain and the...
You wouldn’t think February would be a big tornado month. But I have chased 2 EF4 tornadoes in the month of February. One in Lone Grove, OK. in 2009 and the other one in Hattiesburg, MS. in 2013. The crazy thing is that they both occurred on February 10th of 2009 and 2013. The Hattiesburg tornado was the most memorable. As the...
