Storm Highway
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Storm Highway covers extreme weather year-round in the Midwest, Great Plains and beyond. I focus primarily on the storm hazard during the winter months and the midwestern severe weather threat throughout the year. Get more information about storm chasing by following this feed.
Storm Highway
2d ago
September and October of 2024 were very quiet in the Midwest for thunderstorms and severe weather. Celestial events made up for the dry spell, with several significant aurora outbursts and a rare comet appearance providing several days of night sky shooting ..read more
Storm Highway
1w ago
In January 2025, I'll pass the 15-year mark as a Midwesterner living in the small town of New Baden, Illinois on the east side of the St. Louis metro area. In this view, you can see the interstate leading to the Gateway Arch 29 miles in the distance - giving you an idea of all of the reasons I picked this as my new hometown in 2010 ..read more
Storm Highway
2M ago
August 2024 wsa mostly a quiet one in the Midwest, punctuated by a few systems providing photo opportunities. This recap chronicles events covered during the month ..read more
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3M ago
July 2024 was an incredible month for storms in the Midwest. Highlights include four tornadoes, a career drone tornado intercept and a Chicago upward lightning show ..read more
Storm Highway
3M ago
I observed a tornado producing power flashes behind the Chicago skyline during the derecho event in northern Illinois ..read more
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4M ago
I went out for the remnants of Beryl spinning through the Midwest and saw two significant tornadoes in southwestern Indiana from Mount Vernon to near Owensville (just west of Evansville ..read more
Storm Highway
4M ago
June was a much-less active stretch in the Midwest, with no major out-of-area trips specifically for storms ..read more
Storm Highway
5M ago
Season Epilogue: The 2024 spring tornado season was one for the ages. Not only did it rank among the most prolific in United States history, it was a personal record-breaker for me in many ways: some good, but many bad ..read more
Storm Highway
5M ago
This year's peak storm season month was another for the books, with 8 tornadoes (including two EF4s) and a likely once-in-a-generation opportunity to capture auroras over the Gateway Arch ..read more
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5M ago
An EF1 tornado passed over the west end of New Baden on Sunday, May 26, 2024 during a regional severe weather outbreak. The National Weather Service survey found a 10-mile path that generally parallelled I-64 and ended past Damiansville ..read more