Last second YouTube videos of people chasing clearly state, "Do not go into the bears cage!" but naturally, I had to try it once. A day I forecasted a storm to pop up and take a brief visit turned into a great chase day. As this storm developed and made its way towards me, a process, hard to see on video, happened right above me; tornadogenesis. Moving clouds slowly start to rotate above my head. Backing up constantly, I keep my eye on the tightening spin in the sky. A bears cage forms that leads to a tiny funnel from the base. Scary but thrilling. One ground poke later and tornado number two was in my sights. I sit there with this wonderful sight as hail pounds the side of my car. Lasting less than a minute I sit in awe and excitement that I was there for it. One of two people that close. Lamesa, TX will forever be engrained in my mind as a great memory and in my car as hail dents.
My meteorology passion, odd to many kids at the age of 5, started when the fierce Hurricane Katrina rattled the USA. The destruction, heartbreaking, but the power, unmatchable. Hitting the dirt roads of tornado alley was a not just a dream come true, it was fulfilling my destiny. Each day on the job did not feel like work. The miles, the wrong turns, the missed storms were all but a thing, but the storms I caught, small and large, were magnificent. I was born for this. I present to you my collection from my summer "chasecation" of 2021: Chaser in the Element: Stories from Arizona and Tornado Alley.
Bears Cage
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Last second YouTube videos of people chasing clearly state, "Do not go into the bears cage!" but naturally, I had to try it once. A day I forecasted a storm to pop up and take a brief visit turned into a great chase day. As this storm developed and made its way towards me, a process, hard to see on video, happened right above me; tornadogenesis. Moving clouds slowly start to rotate above my head. Backing up constantly, I keep my eye on the tightening spin in the sky. A bears cage forms that leads to a tiny funnel from the base. Scary but thrilling. One ground poke later and tornado number two was in my sights. I sit there with this wonderful sight as hail pounds the side of my car. Lasting less than a minute I sit in awe and excitement that I was there for it. One of two people that close. Lamesa, TX will forever be engrained in my mind as a great memory and in my car as hail dents.
My meteorology passion, odd to many kids at the age of 5, started when the fierce Hurricane Katrina rattled the USA. The destruction, heartbreaking, but the power, unmatchable. Hitting the dirt roads of tornado alley was a not just a dream come true, it was fulfilling my destiny. Each day on the job did not feel like work. The miles, the wrong turns, the missed storms were all but a thing, but the storms I caught, small and large, were magnificent. I was born for this. I present to you my collection from my summer "chasecation" of 2021: Chaser in the Element: Stories from Arizona and Tornado Alley.