Hello everyone sorry I haven't updated this page lately as ive been busy with my class at OSU. Anyways Heres Some Photos ive take recently include some that I took of yesterdays storms here in central Ohio.

Hello everyone ,Sorry I haven’t posted anything lately ive been to busy keeping up with the storms in the plains the late week / weekend. Below is a recap of what went on this week in the plains. I have included lots of radar screen grabs so you all can understand the severity of these storms better. Also included are the SPC Outlooks from Thursday ,Friday ,and Saturday.

Thursday SPC Briefing

Shown here is the SPC outlook for Thursday. As you can see most of the action for Thursday was in the Oklahoma / Texas Panhandle.

Friday SPC Briefing

Shown here is the SPC outlook for Friday. As you can see most of the action for Friday was in the NW Oklahoma ,SW Kansas area.

Saturday SPC Briefing

Shown here is the SPC outlook for Saturday. As you can see the action for Saturday was spread out across most of the plains.

Shown here are the SPC Reports for all three days of the outbreak.

Saturday Recap

On Saturday many tornadoes touched down all across the plains. This was the main day for the outbreak after all. The SPC had issued a High Risk are for Eastern Nebraska and western Iowa along with central Kansas and Oklahoma. Immediately surrounding these areas were Moderate Risk and Slight risk areas. This SPC forecast would turn out to be incorrect. Storms fired in Western Oklahoma and moved NE into Central and West Kansas. At the same time some storms popped up in Nebraska but nothing severe developed all day. For Brandon Copic , Aaron Rigsby and Micheal Hollinger ,staying in Salina Kansas was a good play. They intercepted the bulk of the storms in Western Kansas as other chasers did also. The storms eventually started trialling eastward one of which dropped a tornado only a couple miles from Greensburg Kansas ,A town that in 2005 was completely destroyed by an EF-5 Night tornado. Thankfully this missed the town but there were storms bearing down on other towns at the time. .This day in all had over 100 Tornado reports.

Storm recap from last week

Storm recap from last week will be up tonight.

Tornado Outbreak Possible!

MAJOR NEWS! A Tornado Outbreak is possible tommrow in the central plains! Here is the latest SPC Outlook!

Storm Week Day 1 Wrap-Up

Today didn't have much severe weather a couple of storms popped up in Louisiana ,Arkansas ,New Mexico ,and Texas ,but nothing major happened. included below are some radar grabs I got and a map of all the reports called in.

-Joseph Penty

Left : SPC Reports From Today

 Left : Building Storms In New Mexico at 3:36 PM EST

Left : Storms In Louisiana at 3:47 PM EST

This Weeks Storms

    Storms all this week throughout the central plains and portions of the southern plains.  All updates posted here about the storms will have the tag #OKStormWeek so they can be easily found.  Show below are the current storm outlooks from now until Saturday, The SPC has called for many of these days to be severe but models could easily change and prove this to be wrong.

    My friends Brandon Copic and Aaron Rigsby are out in the plains this week chasing so please wish them the best of luck.  Hopefully I can include some photos of theirs later this week (With their permission of course), and ill also include radar images with those updates so we all can see whats happening out there in the plains.

    -Joesph Penty

(Images Courtesy of the National Weather Services "Storm Prediction Center" .)

‎Friday, ‎March ‎30, ‎2012 Storms

DSC_0658, a photo by Joseph Penty on Flickr.

March 30th I intercepted two storms ,The first on had a very well developed wall cloud (Shown above) and the second storm had a wall cloud with very quick rotation. Hopefully I can run into more storm systems like this one. Id call March 30th a successful chase day. To see more photos from these storms and other cool photos goto www.flickr.com/JosephPenty .

-Joseph Penty
Photographer