Business Pages St. This page shows all of the blog entries with the most recent entries listed first. If you'd rather reverse the order and read the blog from start to finish, in chronological order, click here. September Never say never Wow. Now I'll never say a year's storm season is over until December Before this day, I would have laughed at any suggestion that we'd see an F4 wedge tornado in Illinois in September.
I also never thought we'd have another major storm chase day after our lean spring trip was over, let alone have it be in September, and furthermore it be successful! We ventured out for a big severe weather setup in Missouri and Illinois on September 22, and with the Lord's blessing, scored big.
This tornado at Crosstown, Missouri was the biggest and strongest I've seen yet. We were the only storm chasers who intercepted and captured video of this storm, which turned out to be the 'big one' of the outbreak - rated F4 for extensive damage in Crosstown. Being the only one on the 'storm of the day' is not something that happens every day for a storm chaser, and certainly not something I ever expected to experience. Full September 22 report with photos and video June season ends; moving on I had been giving the storm season the benefit of the doubt, going so far as to extend our 'standby' period to July 1.
But as each day passes, it becomes more and more evident that the classic spring severe weather season is at its twilight and well on the way to shutting down. Summer is knocking on the door, a time when the volatile spring patterns vanish into the stagnant dog days of July and August. Strong storms are of course still common in the summertime, great for things like lightning photography - but not offering anything worth pursuing on expensive and grueling long-distance storm photography expeditions.
So, today will officially wrap up our Tornado Alley storm season, and with it, our storm season blog for this spring. As for us, our 'storm season' technically doesn't end with the Great Plains tornado season. There's plenty to keep us occupied year-round. Hurricane season is getting started, with Alberto already impacting a stretch from Florida to the Carolinas with wind and flooding.
