Virginia Weather Data and Storm Chaser Links

Current Weather Conditions and Forecasts

• National Weather Service --Richmond conditions and forecast. Hour by hour forecast.
• VA Hourly Weather Round-up--Virginia regional conditions from the NWS
• NC Hourly Weather Round-up--North Carolina regional conditions from the NWS
• Wakefield NWS office severe thunderstorm briefing page

  Current Radar and Satellite

• National Weather Service NEXRAD clickable national map
• Weather Underground formerly Intellicast Regional Radar (VA,WVA,NC,PA)
• Weather Underground formerly Intellicast (Wakefield, VA)
• NEXRAD from Richmond, VA (Wakefield)
• Radar image of Mid-Atlantic--from WRC TV4
• Virginia FirstWarning Radar (hi-res, update 15 min) from WWBT-12
• Interactive Radar in Richmond from Channel 6 WTVR
• 8 News Radar image in Richmond from WRIC
• GOES 16 Viewer from College of DuPage
• Satellite Viewer from Weather.US
• Weather.US state sateliite views: Virginia,North Carolina,
• Virginia/NC 1km resolution satellite,,Virginia/MD/southernPA 1km resolution satellitecentral Texas,TX Pan/CO/NM,Oklahoma, Kansas,Nebraska and interactive national map from COD.
• Visible satellite 1KM (GOES-12) of eastern region interactive map.

National Storm Warnings and Watches

• Current US severe weather watches and warnings --US graphic NWS.
• Current US severe weather watches and warnings --Another US graphic by NWS/SPC
• Current US weather watches --SPC
• Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3 , Experimental Day 4-8 convective outlooks from the SPC.
• SPC Main Page
• SPC Convective Outlooks (text/graphics)--also current watches, warnings
  and mesoscale discussions. (6,13,1630,20,01Z) thru NexLab.
• Day 1, Day 2 in Virginia (NOAA)
• Day 1 SPC Tornado Probablility through NexLab, Alt Version and Day 2
• SPC Mesoscale Discussions
• National Hurricane Center-Atlantic and Pacific hurricane forecast maps, outlooks and discussion
• Lightning Detection and Analysis by Weather.us. States: Virginia,North Carolina,Texas,Oklahoma,Kansas, Nebraska
• Last 24 hours of severe weather warnings
• Today's severe weather reports --hail, tornadoes, wind damage and other severe weather reports with map.

National Weather Maps, Models, Upper Air Soundings and Surface Plots

• Current national surface analysis from NWS and forecast maps
• Mid-Atlantic surface analysis from Weather Roanoke

• Today's national forecast map from NOAA
• Short Range Forecast Maps
• Medium Range Forecast Maps (Days 3 -7) and Discussion
• Current Mid-Atlantic Surface Plot from UCAR and Virginia from COD
• Surface Plots from UCAR
• Surface/Upper Air Analysis from NexLab
• Oklahoma Mesonet and Mesonet (main website) and West Texas Mesonet (direct link to W Tx mesonet image)
• Kansas Mesonet

• Satellite with surface & other data overlay (mobile) and other version of the mesoanalysis by Victor

  Upper Air plots (Multiple Sources)

  • NCAR/RAP
    200 mb, 250 mb, 300 mb, 500 mb, 700 mb, 850 mb

  • NIU
    250 mb, 300 mb, 500 mb, 700 mb, 850 mb

  • COD NexLab analysis
    

  • SPC surface and upper air maps

• TwisterData.com

  College of DuPage models inc 4km NAM

  Pivotal Weather HRRR,3km NAM, RRFS, HRW FV3 and HRW WRF-ARW (Mid-Atlantic),(Tornado Alley)

• Earl's Model Pages and Experimental Severe Weather Model Output
• Earl's Central US svr weather model page includes Lid Strength Index (0 or 1 best, 2-4 struggle, more than 4, initi tough).
• NAM viewer from Earl Barker on Skip Talbot's page
• High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR)
• Rapid Refresh
• HRRR SPC Browser
• NSSL WoFS experimental output
• SPC Hourly Mesoscale Analysis --area featured is under main threat of
  severe weather. Updates 20min after the hour.
• SPC Hourly Mesoscale Analysis, Direct links to zones: EC,SPlains,CPlains,NPlains
• SPC Hourly Mesoscale Analysis, Direct Links to zones (low-res mobile): EC,SPlains,NPlains

  SPC Hourly Mesoscale Analysis, selected direct links for Mid-Atlantic

  T, Dew,W

  SBCAPE

  LCL

  SR Helicity 1KM

  Sup Index

  S Tor Fix

  S Tor Eff

  Non Sup Tor

  EHI 1km//EHI 3 km

  SR Anvil Winds (<40 HP; 40-60 CL; >60 LP)

  SPC Hourly Mesoscale Analysis, selected direct links for Southern Plains

  T, Dew,W

  SBCAPE

  LCL

  SR Helicity 1KM

  Sup Index

  S Tor Fix

  S Tor Eff

  Non Sup Tor

  EHI 1km//EHI 3 km

  SR Anvil Winds

  SPC Hourly Mesoscale Analysis, selected direct links for Central Plains

  T, Dew,W

  SBCAPE

  LCL

  SR Helicity 1KM

  Sup Index

  S Tor Fix

  S Tor Eff

  Non Sup Tor

  EHI 1km//EHI 3 km

  SR Anvil Winds

  SPC Hourly Mesoscale Analysis, selected direct links for Northern Plains

  T, Dew,W

  SBCAPE

  LCL

  SR Helicity 1KM

  Sup Index

  S Tor Fix

  S Tor Eff

  Non Sup Tor

  EHI 1km//EHI 3 km

  SR Anvil Winds

• SPC Short Range Ensemble Forecast (SREF) Page
• SPC HREF Ensemble Viewer and direct link toEnsemble Paintball
• SPC HREF Tornado Ensemble NADOCAST
• Skew T's from: NCAR, CODA, and SPC (current and 7 day archives)
• NCAR Neural Network convective outlook
• Greg Thompson's (UCAR) site for model data.
• SPC Latest RAP 1 Hour Forecast
• CAPS/WX surface and upper air analysis main page and northeast&southern plains
• Weather analysis page by Nexlab
• ECMWF--Long range European Model Forecast for North America by Weather.US
• GFS and NAM Long Range by "idonthaveawebpage.com"
• CFS Severe Weather Guidance Dashboard ("Chiclets")
• Long-range U.S. Hazards Assessments: Days 3-7 and Days 8-14
• CIPS Analogue Guidance long range forecast
• CIPS model viewer
• Extended range severe weather forecasts
• Medium Range Ensembles
• CSU Machine Learning Severe Weather Forecasts
• Roger Edward's Storm Intercept Links
• Skip Talbot's forecast site
• Victor Gensini's data and forecast page
• COD
• Tropical Tidbits

Other Storm Links

The author of this page assumes no liability or responsibility for the information provided by these links or from those acting upon this information. Use the data at your own risk. This includes storm chasing which is inherently dangerous and is not encouraged by the author of this page. If one is considering storm chasing or has questions about it, reading the following essays is suggested: Chaser Safety by Dr Doswell, "Storm Chase Ethics" by Alan Moller and the "Storm Chase Guide and FAQ" by Tim Vasquez and Roger Edwards. Also read "Lightning Strike Effects and Recommendations for Storm Chasers" by William T. Hark, M.D.

• Storm Track Storm Chaser Homepage (forums)--the ultimate storm chase resource.
• Severe Weather Event Archives-data from severe weather days. Year 2000-present.
• Severe Storm Events from SPC-Data archives since 1/1/2000 to 12/22/2011
• Storm Event Database from National Climatic Data Center-Storm Data
• SPC Convective Outlooks, Watches, MCD's and reports-Data archives
• SPC Violent Tornado Archive
• Wakefield, VA NWS storm event database. Also see Blacksburg, VA NWS , Sterling, VA NWS and Raleigh, NC NWS.
• Scott Blair --"Target Area." Chase reports and photos
• Jon Davies--storm case studies, images, accounts and blog.
• Chuck Doswell--chase reports and essays by a chase pioneer and researcher
• Roger Edward's SkyPix --awesome storm and other weather photography. (Blog)
• Tornadoscapes-Roger & Caryn Hill storm chase images, accounts and Silver Lining Tours
• Extreme Instability--Mike Hollingshead's chase logs and reports
• High Moon--Eclipse, meteor and storm pics by Klipsi, Paparazzo Del Cielo
• George Kourounis --weather images, chase reports and blog
• Chris Kridler --"Skydiary". Storm photos, chase reports and Cloud 9 experiences. Also, special storm website for kids, photography and poetry. Blog
• Jim Leonard--storm (and hurricane) chaser, photographer. "The Wrath of Nature" video has the best hurricane footage I've seen. Also tornadoes and hailstorms.
• Dave Lewison--chase reports and photography. (Tracking)
• Amos Magliocco's Cyclone Road-Storm chase images and video
• PS Photos--Storm and weather images, New York pics by Scott McPartland. Twitter window/blog index,Streaming/Tracking
• Jason Persoff, M.D.--Storm images and blog.
• Storms-R-Us--Chase and Weather Blog with Virginia and Plains chases by Chris White
• Twister Chasers-Kathryn Piotrowski's storm images and videos.
• Eye on the Tropics--Hurricane and storm pics by Mike Theiss. Also Extreme Nature Photgraphy
• TVNweather.com
• Mike Umscheid--Under The Meso storm video, images and chase reports, birds and other nature (Blog)
• Severe Weather Diaries by chaser Dayna Vettese.
• Virginia Storm Photo--lightning pics by Jesse V. Bass III
• Storm Highway--Beautiful lightning and storm images, icy road information by Dan Robinson
• Mark Robinson-Canadian storm chaser. Part of Storm Hunters.Blog.
• Brad Rousseau
• AccWeather Blogs
• TWC Tornado Central
• Assorted other chaser blogs: Tornado Titans
• City/Airport abbreviations

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• Spaceweather
• SpaceWeatherLive Auoral Activity and Kp index
• University of Alaska Aurora Forecast
• Space Weather Prediction Center Auora 30 minute Forecast and Auora Dashboard
• Aurorasarous
• Hp 30 index
• AE Index
• Aurora Chasing

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• Recommended restaurants in Tornado Alley by: Chuck Doswell

• National Weather Service Offices at Blacksburg, VA, Wakefield, VA and Sterling, VA
• National Weather Service Offices at Raleigh, NC , Wilmington, NC, Newport/Morehead City, NC, Colombia, SC,Greenville-Spartanburg, SC and Charleston, SC.

• Map of National Weather Service Offices

• Virginia road information and national road info links by state

Real-time storm data, streaming video, images and positions of chasers from the field

• Severe Studios Chase Cam Network
• Spotter Network--Live map of spotter positions and storm reports
• Other live streams:Daniel Shaw

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  For weather photos, go to: Bill's storm and weather photos.
  For comet and butterfly photos, more info: Bill's Photo Page

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