Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Updated Virginia chasing summary for 2002-2011

I just finished updating the statistics for Virginia stormchasing for the period 2002-2011 and have come up with the following totals for these 10 years:

# Chases: 233

# Hail events: 15

# Wall clouds observed: 73

# Funnels observed: 27

# Tornadoes observed: 4

Now, for a couple of caveats:
(a) The total numbers for the ten different Mays are artificially lowered by the fact that May is the month I chase in Tornado Alley when possible, thus missing Virginia storms.
(b) The number of tornadoes may also be artificially lowered due to not being able to observe the near-ground environment under the funnels to determine whether the circulation actually reached the ground. I suspect that was the case for several funnels, but...

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