Andrew Pritchard

A subtle sub-tropical jet stream disturbance will overspread a moist and strongly unstable warm sector ahead of a sharpening dryline way down on the Rio Grande river this afternoon and evening with a few supercells likely producing significant severe weather from Del Rio to Austin southward into Mexico. An early morning storm cluster is already severe-warned as it runs down the Interstate 10 corridor on Tuesday morning, and could produce sporadic outflow winds to severe levels along an...

I've been chasing storms for 25-ish years now, and over those years there are some dates that start to stand out as anniversaries of favorite tornadoes or favorite storms. May 22nd is one of those dates that has accumulated a ton of memories on my end, especially during those glory days in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Over the last couple of years I have archived a lot of these old chases from their original MiniDV videotapes - I'll share a few of my favorite May 22nd chases below. May...

There are two distinctly different plays for observing significant severe weather from the Plains into the Upper Midwest on Sunday afternoon and evening. The more certain play for experiencing severe weather is the northern zone of today's risk, centered on the Missouri River Valley. Here, numerous severe storms should erupt by 3-4 PM along and ahead of a surface low and sharp cold front. Favorable wind shear ahead of the surface low will favor storm rotation, but strong forcing along the...