Fredericksburg, VA storm damage
Jason and I originally intended today’s chase to be more local to our homes in Montgomery County, MD, but as storms kept popping up to our south we kept dropping south with them. We initially crossed over into Virginia near Leesburg as a promising storm was moving into the area to our west. As that [...]
Hurricane Irene – Chase Pictures (part 1)
Here’s some processed images originally taken by my Droid X… descriptions will come later. From the 26th: From the 27th:
16 April 2011 Storm Chase (Pt. 3 of 3) – Chase Log
Jason Foster and I left Gaithersburg, MD a few minutes after 8am to make the trek down to North Carolina for what turned out to be one of the biggest East Coast tornado outbreaks in history. The plan was to be near Wilson, NC around 12:30-1:00pm to eat and begin our chase. However, being the [...]
16 April 2011 Storm Chase (Pt. 2 of 3) – Video
More video(s) will be added as the footage is processed. Snow Hill, NC: NE Raleigh, NC: *Updated with second Snow Hill tornado on 4/19*
16 April 2011 Storm Chase (Pt. 1 of 3) – Pictures
A full chase log will be coming later today, and when Jason has his chase log up I’ll post a link to that as well. I’m having FTP issues with the site at the moment, so images are hosted on Photobucket for now. These pictures were taken at Snow Hill, NC. The hail was about [...]
Severe storms roll through the region
An unexpectedly-powerful squall line moved through the region between 11pm-2am last night, causing a good number of wind reports and a possible tornado near Baltimore, MD. The few people that I have discussed the Baltimore storm with who live in the area believe it was more likely straight-line winds or a micro-burst. Trees down across [...]
