http://www.stormhighway.com/ Storm Highway: Storm chasing and weather coverage by Dan Robinson en-us http://stormhighway.com/blog/july908a.shtml CHARLESTON, WV - An intense storm hit Charleston on July 9, causing flash flooding. http://stormhighway.com/blog/june2208a.shtml SISSONVILLE, WV - Today I experienced the largest hail I've seen so far in my home state - beating out even the June 2, 1998 event. http://stormhighway.com/blog/june2008a.shtml RALEIGH, NC - Some nice storms fired this morning before dawn with some great lightning. http://stormhighway.com/blog/june1408a.shtml POCA, WV - The John Amos power plant's cooling tower exhaust plume was triggering convection this evening, resulting in a continuous, stationary rain shower around the Poca/Cross Lanes area. http://stormhighway.com/blog/june1308a.shtml CHARLESTON, WV - A spectacular storm moved over downtown on Friday night. http://stormhighway.com/blog/june1108c.shtml CHARLESTON, WV - Storms near Wytheville, Virginia were visible from Charleston, 100 miles away. http://stormhighway.com/blog/june1008b.shtml HUNTINGTON, WV - More storms graze the western borders of the state overnight. http://stormhighway.com/blog/june1008a.shtml CHARLESTON, WV - A small complex of storms moved across the Charleston area Monday night. http://stormhighway.com/june32008.shtml CHARLESTON, WV - Strong upper-level winds, ample surface moisture and lingering frontal and outflow boundaries brought strong thunderstorms to most of West Virginia on Tuesday and Wednesday, resulting in flooding, wind damage and spectacular lightning to the state. http://stormhighway.com/march192008.shtml CHARLESTON, WV - For one of the first storm events of the 2008 chase season, March 19 didn't turn out all that disappointing. Thanks to just an hour of late afternoon sunshine, the atmosphere in the Charleston area destabilized enough to allow an incoming line of storms to suddenly intensify past severe limits over downtown. http://stormhighway.com/march82008.shtml CHARLESTON, WV - While Ohio and Kentucky bore the brunt of this storm with up to 20 inches of snow, West Virginia didn't escape unscathed. Charleston picked up 3 inches during the day on Saturday. The main problem for drivers came from the freezing rain and sleet at the onset of the storm on Saturday morning, which caused serious problems on bridges and overpasses. http://stormhighway.com/feb222008.shtml WASHINGTON, PA - Freezing rain glazed streets in the Pittsburgh area, causing accidents around the metro and suburbs. http://stormhighway.com/feb52008.shtml LEXINGTON, KY - A deadly outbreak of severe storms and tornadoes struck the south-central USA on Tuesday. http://stormhighway.com/feb42008.shtml BELLE, WV - Winter thunderstorms move across West Virginia. http://stormhighway.com/jan22008.shtml CHARLESTON, WV - West Virginia rings in the new year with a multi-day snowstorm. http://stormhighway.com/dec52007.shtml CHARLESTON, WV - A clipper snowstorm brings icy roads and accidents to West Virginia. http://stormhighway.com/nov52007.shtml CHARLESTON, WV - November thunderstorms moved through Charleston on Monday evening. http://stormhighway.com/oct182007.shtml OWENSBORO, KY - A tornado outbreak affected the midwest on October 18, including Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky and Florida. I managed to observe six supercells in the Owensboro, Kentucky area. http://stormhighway.com/oct92007.shtml CHARLESTON, WV - In what was likely the last thunderstorm event of the season, the Charleston area saw a few moderate storms move through during the midday hours. The storms were associated with a cold frontal passage that brought an end to the unusually warm summer-like temperatures that the area has seen in recent weeks. http://stormhighway.com/gallery.shtml An update of the stormhighway.com Photo Gallery has been completed, with over 100 new images added from 2005 to 2007. http://stormhighway.com/august102007.shtml Raleigh missed out on the better storms today, requiring a chase down I-40 to Wilmington. http://stormhighway.com/july262007.shtml Severe storms moved across a large part of the Mountain State on Thursday in one of the stronger storm events seen in West Virginia this summer. http://stormhighway.com/june292007.shtml Severe storms impacted much of the state of North Carolina on Friday. High wind events were common south of Raleigh, from Fuquay-Varina northeast to Clayton. http://stormhighway.com/june132007.shtml An upper air disturbance, cold air aloft and warm, moist air at the surface came together to create favorable conditions for severe storms across the Central Appalachian region on Wednesday. http://stormhighway.com/may82007.shtml Some lightning in southern Illinois is a nice diversion during the trip home from the Plains. http://stormhighway.com/may72007.shtml Tower lightning and anvil crawlers at the Oklahoma City 'tower farm'. http://stormhighway.com/may52007.shtml Five tornadoes during a major outbreak in central Kansas. http://stormhighway.com/may42007.shtml A rare intercept of a massive F5 wedge tornado in Kansas. http://stormhighway.com/april242007.shtml Our second chase day of 2007 on the Great Plains results in missed tornadoes, but the day is not a total loss. http://stormhighway.com/april232007.shtml The first day of our annual Great Plains chase expedition starts out with success, with at least three tornadoes documented in southwest Kansas. http://stormhighway.com/april72007.shtml An unusually cold out-of-season air mass is impacting most of the country this week. Many areas of West Virginia saw rare April accumulations ranging from 1 to 4 inches. http://stormhighway.com/april32007.shtml A weakening thunderstorm complex moved into West Virginia just before midnight on Tuesday. The storm had just enough charging left to produce several lightning flashes over Putnam County, one of which triggered a classic upward-moving (ground-to-cloud) lightning strike to the 1,500 foot WVAH TV tower on Coal Mountain near St. Albans. http://stormhighway.com/march172007.shtml Winter made a comeback in West Virginia on Saturday - but not without its usual dangers. More than twelve accidents occured on the I-64 bridge at the Oakwood interchange due to the iced-over bridge - the worst I have seen in four years of shooting at this location. http://stormhighway.com/march142007.shtml The first thunderstorm event of the year for West Virginia affected most of the state on Wednesday. Several clusters and lines of storms moved northeast across the region starting in the mid-afternoon and lasting through the evening. http://stormhighway.com/feb62007.shtml The area's first notable snow event of the year came at an inconvenient time, right at the height of evening rush hour traffic. Numerous accidents along with cars and trucks unable to climb the slippery hills made for slow going on the roads for evening commuters. http://stormhighway.com/jan212007.shtml Snow, sleet, and freezing rain brought the entire spectrum of winter weather to most of the Mountain State on Sunday morning. Numerous accidents resulted as roads turned slick due to a covering of snow and ice. http://stormhighway.com/jan102007.shtml As Comet McNaught's path takes it closer to the sun, its brightness has made it visible to the naked eye, despite the glow of the sunset-lit evening sky. http://stormhighway.com/jan12007.shtml The new year started out mild, but long-range models are hinting at a colder pattern emerging by mid-January.