Tornado Hits Billings Montana 6/20/10

A damaging tornado hit MetraPark and several other buildings. I was there to take video of the aftermath

Back from the chase.

We made it back in one piece, the car has several new dents on the hood and the top from the 2-3 inch hail we encountered near Billings Oklahoma. we had a great time and got to see amazing tornado and an insane funnel cloud that we found out later was in fact on the ground and was in the process of taking out a Casino. we will still be chasing and streaming live video at www.tornadovideos.net/live on a more local basis. keep a lookout for us :D

Active Chasing

We Are in the plains for a few weeks - keep an eye for live stream from us at www.tornadovideos.net/live - also join our facebook group for pictures - ICS Media

Mini Chase 04/18/2010

Had some small cells popping up in South Central Montana, even a couple with Radar indicated 40%+ chance of Severe hail. I decided to head out and track along with a couple of the smaller cells I could catch up to.. didn't expect to see anything to interesting but did get to see some pretty Mammatus Cloud's, some beautiful rain/squall lines and Rainbows. also gave a good chance to test out the streaming equipment in a real chase scenario. it all worked well as expected..

Live Streaming With TornadoVideos.Net

I am proud to announce, ImpactChaserS will be streaming Live video at TornadoVideos.Net

TornadoVideos.Net (TVN) is a Team that is featured on Discovery Channel's Storm Chaser's its is a great honor to get to stream video on there web site. we look forward to the opportunity.

Convection Fest 2010

Severe storms are hitting the central states. We are counting down the day's to when ICS will be heading to the plains to chase. as long as the severe outlook looks good we will depart for the plains the first week of May.

Weather Station in Laurel Montana

After a few months of being offline I was finally able to get my weather station back up and working. It uploads all weather data to wunderground.com every 3-5 seconds - be sure to check it out -

I Hate Computer's Video

A few years ago Craig and I made a little short video of us destroying an old PII desktop.. believe me it was as much fun as it looks.

3d Weather in Lack Thereof.

With the lack of Severe weather this winter - I have started creating my own. using a program called Vue 6 I have been working to create a believable supercell just for fun. this is what I have gotten so far. - its still a work in progress.



I also created a short video with really low quality:

Nice Day in Montana

Full Resolution Image of the beautiful sky over Laurel Montana this evening. temperatures almost made it to the 40F's today - we may get some snow over the weekend -

Radar Archive 08/11/2005 KBLX

August 11 2005 a severe thunderstorm passed through the Molt Montana Area - where my parents currently live and where me and my family lived at the time. I have been playing a lot with GR Level software for the last few weeks and pulled the archived level II information

the storm produced golf-ball sized hail, which damaged 3 of our vehicles, 1 which was totaled, it also damaged our snowmobile trailer and our camp trailer.

There was never any confirmed damage from the tornado itself. the tornado was very unusual looking, the tornado had picked up smoke and ash from a grass fire that started from a previous cell, giving it an unusual color. man I wish I had a camera.



One of the features of GR Level2ae allows you to view the storm in 3d





This image shows the velocity to or away from the radar.



This image shows the rotation within the cell.

Video Page - 1-23-2010

I finally got the video page working the way I wanted to - be sure to check it out!

Montana Winter Storm continues 1-23-2010

The snow continues to fall and the wind has picked up - I have heard ambulance sirens and firetrucks going all day.. so you know the roads are slick.

Video From EF2 tornado in Huntsville AL 1-21-2010

I found a little video from the Huntsville EF-2 tornado on 1-21-2010. there was alot of coverage from many angles be sure to check it out on youtube:

Montana Winter Storm 1-22-2010

The winter storm warning wasn't set to begin until noon today, yet there is already
over two inches of snow on the ground.

Winter Storm Warning for most of Montana 1-22-2010

There is a Winter storm warning in effect for most of Montana starting at Noon MST time effective till Midnight Sunday night. chance of 6-12inches and blowing snow from this storm. so drive careful.

Update 1-22-2010 07:52pm MST - NWS lowered the predicted snow accumulation amounts to 5-10 inches for the Billings area. the snow started to fall around 9am local it continued to fall heavy until about 1pm I measured 2 inches at the time. The snow has continued to fall since with little accumulation.

Severe Weather in Florida 1-22-2010

This blog is brand new so what better way to test it then with a Tornado Warning in Effect for Florida North East of Kissimme. 3:50am Eastern time - expires 4:30am EST

Update: 4:10am EST - storm continues to move further east, at about 35mph warning still in effect for Southeastern Orange County and Northeastern Osceola county.

Update: 4:30am EST - The Tornado warning has been allowed to expire for this cell. no information on any damage or any confirmation of a tornado. I will call this the last update for this one.