Boston Storm Chaser Home Page

June 10, 2004 north of Chappell, Nebraska

Welcome to Rich Hamel's storm chasing page!  Despite living in Massachusetts (about as far from chase country as you can get in the USA) I get out to the plains and chase as often as I can, and even chase in Mass. when weather permits. On this page you'll find photos and descriptions of the best storm chase days I've experienced, and some of the other sights of interest I've seen on my storm chasing trips. All pictures found on this website were taken by me unless otherwise noted and are strictly copyrighted. I am available to give talks on storm chasing and tornado forecasting in the greater Boston area. If you are interested in setting up a lecture, or have any questions or comments about this site, please feel free to contact me. Are you interested in seeing some of this stuff for yourself? Come on tour with Silver Lining Tours!

Individual Chase Day Pages:

May 9, 2001:  Nicely structured classic supercell between New Ulm and Mankato, MN.

May 10, 2001:  A long chase day starting with a classic supercell near Carroll, IA and ending with an HP monster near Ames, IA.

May 16, 2001:  Large isolated supercell near Beatrice, NE with a large "collar" wall cloud.

July 12, 2001:  A local chase! Nice little severe thunderstorm in Bedford, MA, not far from my home.

June 12, 2002:  Outflow dominant supercells near Alva, OK with many gustnadoes and lots of lightning.

June 15, 2002:  A great, LONG  chase day! Saw a nice landspout near Turpin, OK, and some terrific lightning near Pampa, TX.

May 15, 2003:  Tornadic supercells near Boise City, OK,  Stratford, TX, and Sunray, OK.

May 18, 2003:  Large HP supercell with shark-toothed shelf cloud near Limon, CO.

May 19, 2003:  Classic supercell with nice wall cloud and golf ball+ hail near Healdton, OK.

June 6, 2004:  Tornadic classic supercell and rapidly rotating LP supercell near Max, ND.

June 9, 2004: Several storms in Colorado including Woodrow, CO tornadic HP supercell.

June 10, 2004: Awesome chase day! Fantastic Chappell, NE tornadic supercell with 30+ minute stovepipe tornado.

June 15, 2004: Large outflow dominant HP storm near Kit Carson, CO with awesome haboob.

June 16, 2004: Tornadic anchored supercell near Toonerville, CO. Turned into a monster bow-echo complex.

June 17, 2004:  Several supercells east of Pueblo, CO with significant rotation. Later, fantastic mammatus clouds near Lamar, CO.

August 21, 2004: Shots from my survey of the damage path of an F0/F1 tornado that went through Wrentham and Franklin, Massachusetts.

May 30, 2005: Tornado warned supercells, first near Kim, CO, then a near dusk close encounter west of Pritchett, CO.

May 31, 2005: Two big tank supercells, both tornado warned, near Hereford, TX and Earth, TX then on to Lubbock.

June 2nd, 2005: Enormous supercell with brief tornado east of Limon, CO.

May 27th, 2006: Highly Electrified hail storm with great lightning over Bismarck, ND

May 30th, 2006: Classic supercell with rotating wall cloud, then high precipitation hailer over Roger Mills County, OK.

May 31st, 2006: HP supercell starting in Limon, CO then traveling east down I-70 with lots of hail and great mammatus clouds.

June 2nd, 2006: Nicely structured high-based storms over the Black Hills of South Dakota.

June 3rd, 2006: Several severe cells near Highmore, SD with good banding and possible microbursts.

June 6th, 2007: Tornadic supercell and monster HP hailer in the Badlands of South Dakota.

June 12th, 2007: Embedded supercells in a squall line near White City, SD that almost produced tornadoes several times.

June 13th, 2007: Several supercells that produced funnels including a long horizontal funnel near Ashland, KS.

Assorted Shots:  These shots are a variety of pictures I've taken out on the plains. Some of them are nice storm shots not worthy of
                         their own individual pages while others are just neat scenic things I've seen out there.

Favorite Links: Useful or interesting weather and storm chasing links.

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