"Severe Weather Situational Awareness"
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Friday, June 27, 2008
I finally have my storm chase photos and chase blogs updated for my chases this year. It has taken me a long time to get this done for my eight chases. I have been working two jobs for over a year now, so I don't have a lot of extra time to spend in updating.
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I want to thank everyone that stopped by my CoCoRaHS display table at the 2008 Crawford County Severe Weather Symposium today. I do want to announce that the winner of the NOAA Weather Radio that I gave away was Marilyn Smardo of Franklin, Kansas. Thank you to everyone that took their time to sign up to win.
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Sunday, April 6, 2008
If you are interested in knowing if I'm out in the field trying to intercept severe thunderstorms, you can try to locate me on a map at this link. This is a map that shows storm spotters/chasers in the field. My icon on the map has the name of "SEKSWEATHER" on it. The map fills up with a lot of icons on very active weather days, so keep looking for me, as I will usually be out there somewhere.
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Monday, March 31, 2008
I went on my first storm chase of this new severe weather season. I started out intercepting a tornado warned storm West of McCune, Kansas this morning. I did not witness a lot of lower level rotation within this storm, but a lot of vertical motion within the scud clouds were seen under the rain free base. I moved on and intercepted a tornado warned storm in Southeast Oklahoma, near Hugo. This storm was an organized supercell with a wall cloud. Photos can be found here.
Scud Clouds Under The Updraft Region
Of A Tornado Warned Thunderstorm Approximately 4 Miles
Northwest Of McCune, Kansas
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Monday, December 10, 2007
A disastorous ice storm has hit parts of Southeast Kansas!! The extreme Southeast corner of Kansas is suffering through a natural disaster. Heavy freezing rain fell most of yesterday morning, and throughout last night. I measured 0.50" of ice on the trees in my front yard, located in Southwest Pittsburg, Kansas. Thicker ice, up to 1", could be found in the southern part of Pittsburg, Kansas. To view my photo gallery of this historic weather event click on this link.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007
My rainfall data pages have been updated with my current CoCoRaHS data through October 2007. Check out how much more rain the Pittsburg, Kansas area has received this year, compared with last year.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Fall is here with Winter right around the corner. If your area of Southeast Kansas hasn't already received its first frost of this Fall season, then it will be right around the corner. Happy Halloween!
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Flooding continues to plague the Neosho and Verdigris River valleys in Southeast Kansas. This photo is of the Neosho River as it crosses U.S. 400 highway East of Parsons, Kansas was taken on Sunday evening, July 1, 2007. It was taken by my dad, Roy Parsons.
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Sunday, May 27, 2007
I finally got my Storm Chase Logs and Photos page updated with all of this year's chase information, as of today. It takes time to keep these chase accounts updated, and time here lately is somthing I haven't had a lot of. I also updated my Southeast Kansas Weather Blog. My storm chase season for this year is just about over, as I just got a part-time job that will take even more of my time in the near future.
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Saturday, May 26, 2007
I had another succesful storm chase on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 in Central Kansas. I ended up not seeing any tornadoes today, but I still got my fill of adrenaline pumping severe weather. I followed a wall cloud from northwest of Newton, Kansas to just south of Hillsboro, Kansas. I saw some of the most amazing upward vertical motion of scud clouds being sucked into the updraft of this storm, that I've ever seen before. Stay tuned for photos and video!!
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Wednesday, April 29, 2007
The photographs of my last three storm chases can be viewed by going to:
On April 21, I had a successful storm chase to the Texas panhandle area once again. Three fellow chasers and myself ended up near Amarillo, Texas and saw a weak tornado, which happend to be about fifty yards from our vehicle as we drove down Interstate 40. On April 24, my dad and I had a successful chase to the Hutchinson, Kansas area. We saw numerous funnel clouds, and a weak tornado, which was about a half mile from us. On April 25, I chased some small supercell storms in Northeast Oklahoma. I got some pretty good photos of a well formed wall cloud in Western Craig County, Oklahoma. Please stay tuned to this site, as I will get my chase logs updated as soon as I find the time.
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Thursday, March 29, 2007
I went on my first storm chase of the 2007 severe weather season yesterday. I was rewarded by seeing a very large wedge tornado between Booker, Texas and Beaver, Oklahoma, in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. You can see my photos of the tornado here. Video On YouTube can be found here.
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