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May 8, 2013 – Boise City, Okla. – Landspout Tornadoes.
Morning of May 8, 2013 showed a decent system ejecting into the plains with a triple point located near southeast Colorado down into the Oklahoma panhandle, this would provide a focus for severe storms and isolated tornadoes. My target for the day was Lamar down to Springfield, Colo. it was pretty easy seeing as I [...]
April 8th 2013 – Eastern Colorado Landspout Tornado
April 8th was one of those chase’s that had high hopes but lots of uncertainty. A week prior to this day arriving a strong upper level system was set to move into the plains the 7-11th time frame. I approach each setup differently when I do my forecast but I usually keep to a few [...]
Cody & Ashley Bocco’s Wedding
Since graduating school, getting a full time job and not having the desire to photograph anything, I have put my site/blog on the back burner but since photographing a wedding this last December and with spring here I will be posting more photoblogs in the coming months. Back in December I was honored to be [...]
Valmont Bike Park
Here are some images I made the other day of my friends Drew Summers and Etae Stout hitting some features at the Valmont Bike Park in Boulder Colo. I injured myself a week ago so this gave me the opportunity to photograph some action sports. I did get some images of other riders who were [...]
June 7th 2012 – Chugwater Wyoming Tornado
The day started with meeting up with Scott Hammel, Dann Cianca and Kendall LaRoche to prep and get ready to head north into Wyoming. Our initial target was right on the CO/WY border but we decided to push north as storms were developing in the higher terrain off to our west. We [...]
First Half Of Storm Season 2012
With the first half of storm season coming to an end, I have yet to photograph any major tornado outbreaks since April since most of May was plagued with high pressure. This meant minimal opportunities to photograph severe weather. I was able to get some decent shots of some severe storms here and there when [...]
April 26, 2012 Springfield, Colo. LP Supercell
The day started out with a 4hr work shift and a lot of tea. As soon as I got off work for the day, I went to start my car to meet up with Scott Hammel and Kendall LaRoche in a secret location. I turned the key over and over again and no sign of [...]
April 14, 2012 – Large Tornadoes in Central KS.
UPDATE: THE LANGLEY/CRAWFORD TORNADO WAS RATED EF4 ON PRELIMINARY DAMGE ASSESSMENT April 14, 2012 will go down in history as one of my top three best storm chases of all time. The day started out in Russell, KS. Myself and Eric Haave a meteorologist based out of Denver, Colo. headed north with my dad, Verne Carlson, Eric [...]
La Grange, WY Tornado – The BIG Picture
This post is a way to show the bigger picture on the tornadic event that took place on June 5, 2009 in La Grange, WY. This tornado was one of the most well documented tornadoes in 2009 by Vortex 2 and I was proud to see it and document it myself. – Enjoy! Michael [...]
April 22, 2010 HRRR Data Compared to Real Time Data Collection
The goal of this report is to provide an in-depth look at the HRRR, also known as the High Resolution Rapid Refresh RUC model compared to the actual radar data from the tornado outbreak that occurred in Southeastern Colorado and discuss the accuracy of the HRRR compared to real time data. This report will only [...]