By RUSSELL ANGLIN russell.anglin@amarillo.com As the threat of severe weather loomed over the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, a team of storm chasers stood by, anticipating the worst. “To think that it’s not going to happen here or it’s not going to happen to me is the biggest misconception,” said longtime storm chaser Bill Ford, who brought his family-based Storm Warriors team north of...
What does motherhood and storm chasing have in common? You learn to predict storms and decide which ones merit warning. In the beginning of our relationship, Bill and I spent many hours on the roadways of western Oklahoma and north Texas chasing storms. The only technology we had was a weather scanner radio but Bill had an innate sense of how to...
"It is so hard to see people killed or injured, and when you look back and see what happened and say this was so unnecessary,"...
Recently my daughter, Cori, was coaching a young man, let’s call him Chris, about how to interpret the weather radar we use during our storm chasing. He was interested in the wind velocities, direction of the storm, and whether there was a ‘hook’ that meant a tornado was probable. Several hours later I noticed a pensive look on his face....
[caption id="attachment_16277" align="alignright" width="300"] Ray Baughman embraces family shortly after his home was destroyed by a tornado that left a path of devastation through the north end of Pekin, Il., Sunday, Nov. 17, 2013. Intense thunderstorms and tornadoes swept across the Midwest on Sunday, causing extensive damage in several central Illinois communities while sending people to their basements for shelter....
