~ Early Web Links ~

Ryan Crouse's storm hunting site documents extreme weather events across Yorkton, Saskatchewan, featuring lightning photography, storm clouds, and road condition updates. A personal hub for a dedicated storm chaser covering the Canadian prairies, with live streams and weather photos from the region.

Hosted by the University of Wyoming's Atmospheric Science department, this site provides access to real-time and historical upper air data including soundings, upper air maps, and balloon trajectory forecasts for the US and Wyoming. It's a go-to reference for meteorologists, students, and weather enthusiasts needing professional-grade atmospheric data.

Andy Fischer, known as Tornadohead, documents his storm chasing expeditions from 2001 through 2008 with individual chase accounts organized by year. The site includes cumulative maps tracking counties chased, observed supercells, and tornadoes across both the northern and southern plains.

Paul Stofer's StormPursuit is a comprehensive storm chasing hub featuring chase accounts, live streaming, tornado photography, and real-time severe weather tools including radar, satellite, and mesoscale outlooks. The site offers an impressive archive of storm structure photos, hail and lightning images, and educational resources for anyone fascinated by severe weather.

Hosted by the University of Washington's Atmospheric Sciences department, GRAYSKIES is an educational resource focused on Earth's atmosphere, offering climate data, rooftop weather observations, and curated links to Pacific Northwest weather and climate tools. Visitors can explore 30-year climate averages, satellite imagery, and data plotting tools alongside a broad collection of regional and national weather resources.

Hosted by UCAR's Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Laboratory, this archive provides a collection of meteorological case study images for researchers and forecasters. The Case Selection Kit Image Archive serves as a reference tool for selecting and studying atmospheric weather cases, making it a useful resource for those in the meteorological sciences.

Jonathan D. Finch documents his storm chasing expeditions from 1993 to the present, with detailed accounts of each chase including target areas, driving routes, and close encounters with tornadoes across the Great Plains. A fascinating firsthand record spanning decades of severe weather pursuit, complete with photos captured from video footage and narrative logs of near-misses with significant tornadoes.

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.

TwisterData.com is a meteorological data tool built in 2008 by storm chasers David Demko and Donald Giuliano, offering RAP, NAM, and GFS weather model forecasts with detailed atmospheric parameters like CAPE, hodographs, helicity, and sounding data. Designed with a clean, data-first philosophy, it pulls from NOAA datasets and is especially valuable for storm chasers, meteorologists, and serious weather enthusiasts who need raw model output without distractions.

A community message board dedicated to hurricane tracking and tropical weather forecasting, covering Atlantic, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and Pacific storm systems. Members discuss current tropical cyclones, share National Hurricane Center updates, and maintain seasonal archives dating back through multiple hurricane seasons.