#tornado formation

So I caught a tornado forming today. You can totally hear the panic in my voice as my Dad wanted to stick around. Sorry for my loud voice! I was terrified.

Just about every chase season, I get to see a supercell do something terrible and miraculous all at once: produce a tornado. The build up to a tornado in most supercells is pretty predictable. Check out the video we recently posted highlighting four steps of the process. https://www.instagram.com/p/CQqy4qsljeQ/ From warm, moist air feeding into the storm to the air being pushed down and around…

I meant to post these photos yesterday, but between the weather and finishing report cards, and then following the tornadoes in and around Dayton, I didn’t. 

This was the sky about 1:00PM as I’m driving west towards my gig.

at 1:28 (thanks phone) the storm blowing in was a severe thunderstorm.

I took this right after the sirens went off and the circulation was moving into our area. There wasn’t a funnel, but it was rotating very clearly as it blew over. 

the trees obscured our view, but it really organized as it moved from our area into Lockport and Orland Park.