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Spencer Dant
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Tornado chaser 🌪️⚡️⛈️. Except the ones in Alabama. Not those. Orders queso for the table. Taco Bell is my love language
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A collection of different - yet oddly similar - things on the high plains. Watching the sun set to the west while a massive storm rages in between is one of life's guilty pleasures.
I haven’t worked with them in some time but this data looks very easily integrated into tornado archive. Might be worth chatting with them. There are a lot of researchers using that site.
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Here it is. The last 10 years of hail events across the U.S. using my prototype hail tracking algorithm!

Hoping to build out a more robust climatology of hailstorms like we have for tornadoes.
I guess random backyard supercell season really does not ever end
A storm with its tornado, parading through canyons in Texas, shows off the whole anatomy of a supercell. Nothing I wouldn't give to have had a road in from the northeast on this one, but nope.
In the year of everything awesome in storm chasing world, the monsoon has been nonexistent. So I'll take whatever heavily cropped, slightly overexposed bolts I can get 😀
One year ago today I was making what may be the easiest forecast of my life in central South Dakota. This long-lived tornado was just the icing we all knew was coming to top off the cake.

8.28.2024 - Mound City, SD
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That summit is getting so cringy that I’m honestly judging people for going 🙄
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These stories are heart rending - but I am so thankful these parents are speaking out. We absolutely cannot act like what happened on July 4th was an unpreventable act of God - we CAN be better prepared and keep people safer. Reupping my post on what needs to improve: tinyurl.com/37n8t9ez
Out of the small handful of storms I have actually chased in 2025, the majority of them have been terrible. And yet several of them, including this one, keep breaking my windshield anyway. You're supposed to be good if you want the right to do that, storm.
But Mouse, you are not alone. In proving foresight may be vain: The best-laid schemes of mice and men go oft awry, and leave us nothing but grief and pain for promised joy!
I have not heard a lot of good things about that convention with regard to science 🤷‍♀️

Regardless a prom made up of 392 men and 14 women will be hilarious
Anyone wanna go to storm chaser prom with me
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Structure of the year
Smoky backyard supercell time
It’s only 76 in corpus christi
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In areas hit by Texas floods, officials were sent over $5 million in federal ARPA funds in 2021.

They didn't want to spend it on flood warning systems due to their disdain for Biden - and didn't send it BACK because it might go to a blue state, and "values that we in Kerr county don't agree with."
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Yeah, I get that, and you’re right. But an evacuation for every FFW would be an evacuation multiple times a year in many places. It’s a lot to ask, especially when most occasions don’t do this kind of thing.
It is not feasible to evacuate a town ahead of flood weather. People can’t afford that and won’t do it even if they can.
Evacs on the floodplain make total sense and will probably happen in the future in Centex now, but it’s hard to convince people how scary flooding is until it happens to them. And, obviously, you can’t just close a town ahead of time. But for the campgrounds that’s a good place to start.