~ Early Web Links ~

Stormdude is a personal storm chasing site documenting decades of adventures across the Great Plains in pursuit of supercells, with photo journals spanning from 1998 through 2027. The site features a main gallery, top chase days highlights, humor pages, and lists of other storm chasers, making it a rich archive for weather enthusiasts.

Jeff Duda, a geology student turned meteorology researcher, chronicles a decade of storm chasing with detailed chase accounts, busts, and lifetime statistics including 71 tornadoes over 111 chases and 52,000+ miles. Each year from 2008 to 2017 has its own dedicated page, making this a substantial firsthand log of severe weather pursuit across the Great Plains and Midwest.

Ben Holcomb's storm chasing hub is a sprawling personal site featuring tornado videos, pictures, past chase logs, statistics, and equipment guides built over nearly two decades of active chasing. This links page alone connects to hundreds of fellow storm chasers and meteorological resources, making it a valuable hub for the storm chasing community.

RAL Real-Time Weather's Upper-Air page, maintained by NCAR's Research Applications Laboratory, provides real-time rawinsonde plots and upper-atmosphere wind and temperature data across multiple pressure levels from 925mb to 200mb. Researchers and weather enthusiasts can browse SkewT/LogP charts, loop multi-day animations, and access archived upper-air data sponsored by the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research.