STORM NEWS and Archives for 2008

This page contains an index to storm chase, severe weather, tornado reports and images of current and past storm events that are organized by year, month and day in reverse chronological order.

I plan to make this list as comprehensive as possible to include as many storm reports as I can find on the web.   If you know of a page that should be added to the list or if you find a broken link, please notify me via e-mail at sam at pulse.net.  Be sure to include the word "LINK" in the subject line of your message.

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Last revised: January 11, 2009

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Other sources for current and historical data:

• SPC Product & Report Archives
• Tornado History Project
• Overpasses and Tornadoes
• European Lightning Network
• Plymouth State Weather Center
• NOAA River Level Monitoring for Texas
• Ice Age or Global Warming - Which is it? (This is really inconvenient information.)
• Gore versus Bush - Who lives "greener"? (Another inconvenient truth.)
• Peak Oil - A story of depletion and the cure for Global Warming
• Earthquakes in the U.S.
• DVD Life Expectancy
• Newspapers
• The Gilmer Mirror
• TV Stations
• Electronic Journal of Severe Weather
• Weather Station Products in the U.K. - for the home weather station
• NWS Severe Storm Index
• NWS SRH Significant Events Archive
• NCDC Storm Events
• NIDS Image Archive
• UCAR Case Studies and Image Archive
• The Texas Almanac
• NOAA Photo Gallery
• Tornadoes in Oklahoma City since 1890
• North American Regional Reanalysis Daily Dataset Selection
• Recent Severe Weather Events from St. Louis, MO
• National Climate Data Center (NCDC)
• NSSL SWAT Tornado Case Studies
• NSSL Severe Thunderstorm Event Archive and Case Study Archive Catalogue
• SPC Historical Severe Weather Data Archive
• FSU Data Archive
• COMET Case Studies
• NEXRAD Data Archives
• NEXRAD National Mosaic Reflectivity Image Archives
• NOAA Central Photo Library
• Operational Special Event Imagery (OSEI)
• The Tornado Project - All Tornadoes Listing
• NCAR/RAP's NEXRAD Data Archives Viewer
• Tornado Outbreaks Ranked by Severity
• List of Historical Tornado Events
• NWS Service Assessments
• Dogpile Emergency Management Search
• Radio Station Listings
• Dogpile "Radio Station" Search
• Great Colorado Hailstorms and Significant Tornadoes
• Iowa tornado statistics
• Radiosonde Database
• ISWS 50-year Radiosonde Archive
• Weather library of historical maps
• Storm Track News
• The Storm Track Library
• Stormchasing.net Historical Data Archive
• Historical Illinois Severe Weather Information
• WeatherCams
• Wikpedia info on the Fujita Scale
• WeatherBrains - Includes Podcasts on historical weather events

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2008

Events

1. Jim Reed's book "Storm Chaser"
2. Meso-Analyst Severe Weather Guide
3. The Weather Beaver - YouTube Video by Andrew Revering
4. The Real Stars by Ben Stein
5. What's in the Black SUVs that follow the President?
6. So, you want to be an engineer?
7. Space Shuttle Photos
8. Giant Tower Erection Video
9. Lightning Photos
10. HamInfoBar: http://www.haminfobar.co.uk/ for your web browser
11. July 5, 2008 - Small tornado hits car on European highway
12. June 28, 2008 - Chaser arrested in Missouri
13. June 28, 2008 - Lightning over Pittsburgh, PA
14. June 28, 2008 - HD VIDEO - Daytime lightning over Wallback, WV by Dan Robinson
15. June 28, 2008 - HD Storm Video from Charleston, WV by Dan Robinson
16. June 26, 2008 - HD VIDEO - Lightning over Pittsburgh, PA by Dan Robinson
17. June 22, 2008 - Large Hail in West Virginia
18. June 11, 2008 - Tornado hits Boy Scout Camp in Iowa - Des Moines Register
19. June 7, 2008 - YouTube VIDEO - Large tornado near Chicago, Illinois by PrairieStormMedia.com
20. June 7, 2008 - YouTube VIDEO - Tornado near Chicago, Illinois
21. June 6, 2008 - St. Clair / Monroe County, IL chase by John Farley
22. June 5, 2008 - Outflow dominant supercells in North Central Oklahoma
23. June 4, 2008 - Tornado Intercept - Tazewell, McLean, Woodford County, Illinois
24. May 26, 2008 - YouTube VIDEO- Parkersburg, Iowa tornado and massive damage
25. May 26, 2008 - Tornadoes in Iowa and Minnesota
26. May 24, 2008 - Northern Oklahoma tornadoes by Dave Chapman
27. May 23, 2008 - Quinter, Kansas tornado VIDEO
28. May 23, 2008 - VIDEO of tornadoes in northwest Kansas
29. May 23, 2008 - VIDEO of the Quinter, Kansas Wedge Tornado
30. June 3, 2008 - Lightning in West Virginia
31. May 24, 2008 - Newlyweds Killed by Tornado near Pratt, Kansas - 2nd Article with photos of car
32. May 24, 2008 - Buffalo / Selman, OK tornado by Steve Miller
33. May 14, 2008 - YouTube Video - Very close lightning strike by Cloud 9 Tours
34. May 11, 2008 - WMV VIDEO - North Carolina storm chase by Jesse Bass
35. May 9, 2008 - Tornado tosses cars in Leighton, Alabama
36. May 7, 2008 - VIDEO - Bixby, OK Storm by David Gaede
37. April 28, 2008 - Tornado Outbreak in the southeast Virginia- NWS report
38. April 25, 2008 - Missouri and Illinois Storm Chase by John Farley
39. April 24, 2008 - Tornadic Supercell near Hoxie, Kansas by Brian Barnes
40. April 24, 2008 - Storm Chase in Kansas by Ryan McGinnis
41. April 7, 2008 - Southern Oklahoma storms by David Gaede
42. April 7, 2008 - Electra, Texas tornado and tribute to W5GPO by David Gaede
43. March 19, 2008 - Gravity Waves Make Tornadoes - NASA article
44. March 8, 2008 - TESSA National Storm Conference in Colleyville, Texas
45. February 15-18, 2008 - National Storm Chasers Convention in Denver, Colorado byBill Hark
46. February 20, 2008 - Lunar Eclipse by Brian Morganti
47. February 20, 2008 - Lunar Eclipse by Mike Hollingshead

Chase Diaries, Blogs, Photo Galleries, etc.

1. Wayne Adams
2. Brian Barnes - Chaseblogs.com & ViolentSkiesTours.com
3. Sam Barricklow
4. Ed Berry - Atmospheric Insights
5. Scott Blair
6. Mike Blake
7. Timothy Bond
8. John Brosio - Severe weather paintings
9. Verne Carlson
10. Cloud9Tours
11. Dean Cosgrove - Windswept Tours
12. Matt Crowther & Matt's Photos
13. Brian Currin
14. Scott Currens
15. Jimmy Deguara
16. Angel Dimitrov
17. Beau Dodson
18. Chuck Doswell
19. RJ Evans - aka El Diablo
20. Roger and Elke Edwards and more Roger Edwards
21. John Farley
22. Marty Feely
23. David Gaede's YouTube Channel
24. Matthew Hartman
25. Mike Hollingshead
26. Tim Holmes - Entry page with Flash opening
27. Jim Johnson
28. Phil Kurimski
29. Karen Leszke
30. Amos Magliocco
31. Ryan McGinnis
32. John Monteverdi
33. Gene Moore
34. John Moore
35. Brian Morganti
36. Eric Nguyen
37. Clint Perkins
38. Al Pietrycha
39. Mike and Bill Purcell
40. Robert (Bobby) Prentice
41. Bill Reid - The Storm Bruiser
42. Dan Robinson - HD Storm Video
43. Gene Rhoden
44. StormPhoto.net
45. Andy Stoughton
46. Susan Strom - The Lightning Lady
47. Bill Tabor
48. Mike Umscheid
49. Tom Warner - Warner Images
50. Scott Weberpal
51. Matt Ziebell

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Find Tornado Alley Newspapers via the following pages:

• U.S. Newspapers listed by state
• Newspapers
• On-line Newspapers
• Obscure Newspapers
• The Paperboy 
• ABYZ News Links
• Yahoo Listing of newspaper links
• Amarillo Daily News
• Indiana Media Outlets

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Last revised: January 11, 2009