Posts Tagged ‘storm chasing’
Friday, June 8th, 2012 11:15am MDT
Mother Nature brought severe weather to northeastern Colorado again yesterday but for the second day in a row Thornton missed out on the action. Since the storms wouldn’t come to us, ThorntonWeather.com went to the storms. Thornton seems to be in a bit of a ‘storm drought’ of late with most thunderstorms passing us by […]
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Tags: Elbert County, Severe Weather, storm chasing, tornado
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Monday, November 14th, 2011 4:35pm MDT
Getting the latest and most dramatic storm footage has become a popular way for many storm chasers to fuel their hobby and many have turned it into a lucrative business. The actions by some in the chaser community and the risks they take have once again come under scrutiny, this time by the Weather Channel’s […]
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Tags: Mike Bettes, storm chasers, storm chasing, The Weather Channel
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Thursday, June 9th, 2011 12:38pm MDT
Yesterday’s forecast warned of the chance for severe storms and while Thornton escaped with just a few light rain showers, further to the east it was much more exciting. As storms rolled off the foothills ThorntonWeather.com followed them east of DIA. Many of the storms that formed yesterday were cut-off by mid-level winds that kept […]
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Tags: storm chasing, thunderstorm
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Friday, October 8th, 2010 3:03pm MDT
While many might view a tornado something to flee from, an increasing number of vacationers are flocking to the Great Plains for the chance to get up close and personal with a twister. A new study shows that storm chasing tours are becoming a vacation of choice for not only many Americans but also visitors […]
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Tags: Severe Weather, storm chasing, tornadoes
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Wednesday, October 6th, 2010 6:39pm MDT
Every spring and summer storm chasers take to the Great Plains on a single-minded quest to experience a tornado up close and personal. While many people may find this odd, the cast of the Discovery Channel series Storm Chasers relishes the annual ritual and the channel is set to kick off the fourth season of […]
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Tags: Discovery Channel, Reed Timmer, Sean Casey, storm chasers, storm chasing, tim samaras, tornadoes
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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 5:52pm MDT
Roger Hill is considered quite famous among storm chasers as he has a proven, uncanny ability to place himself right where severe weather will strike. A recent headline on the Drudge Report featuring Hill has now shined the national media spotlight on him and his profession as co-owner of a storm chasing tour company. Examiner.com […]
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Tags: Drudge Report, roger hill, storm chasing, stormchasers, tornado
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Thursday, June 10th, 2010 5:58am MDT
Certainly the highlight of storm chasing is tornadoes and ThorntonWeather.com’s Storm Chase 2010 had plenty of those – five in one day in fact. However, as great of satisfaction can be derived from simpler, less violent storms. The images from a week of chasing on the Great Plains show the fury and the beauty of […]
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Tags: Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, storm chasing, Supercell, Texas, thunderstorm, Tornadoe
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Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 10:55am MDT
We have said before that storm chasing is as much an art as a science and it can very much be feast or famine. Both extremes were seen over the course of a week of storm chasing on the Great Plains by ThorntonWeather.com. We hope our site visitors were checking out the Storm Chase 2010 […]
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Tags: Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, storm chasing, thunderstorm, tornado
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Saturday, May 29th, 2010 7:47am MDT
Storm Chase 2010 is making final preparations to take to the Great Plains on Saturday. With severe weather forecast for the northern plains, the opportunity is too good to resist so the hunt begins a day early. The Storm Prediction Center has placed a slight risk for severe weather on an area from northeastern Colorado […]
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Tags: Examiner.com, storm chasing, tornadoes
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010 8:07am MDT
Severe weather season brings danger and destruction to the Great Plains of the United States. No other place on earth sees as many tornadoes as this region and now ThorntonWeather.com is going to go on the hunt in an attempt to witness Mother Nature’s fury up close and personal. As we have pointed out before, […]
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Tags: Examiner.com, Natural Disasters Examiner, Storm Chase 2010, storm chasing, tornado
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