On this episode the Ballers investigate a Kentucky supercell which just kept turning to the right as it ripped across the Bluegrass State. Oh, and Nadocast performed pretty darn well once again…
On July 27th a 1000 yard wide EF-3 monster with 140 mph winds touched down near Appleton, Wisconsin. The tornado struck late in the morning, and like several other storms we've covered it touched down…
131 mph - that's how strong winds in a recent Dakotas thunderstorm were! Strong enough to topple giant a wind turbine and do a lot of other damage. On this episode the Ballers will tell you all about…
Weather events over the past few years like Hurricanes Ian and Helen have taken hundreds of American lives. Other major weather events like tornadoes and ice storms have had catastrophic impacts.…
In this episode the Ballers discuss a June tornado in Kansas that quickly spun up and killed a man in a mobile home. There was no tornado warning in effect when the storm struck, but as your hosts…
18 minutes - that's how long it took the NWS to issue a tornado warning for parts of western Arkansas on June 6th despite clear evidence of a tornado on radar and multiple reports of a tornado in…
In this episode the Debris Ballers take a close look at the Tornado Emergency. The Tornado Emergency was first used in 1999 by the NWS office in Norman when devastating tornadoes struck central OK. It…
In this episode we take a deeper dive into how storm warnings are actually issued. Warning polygons are a huge improvement over the county based warnings of the early 2000s but they offer some…
Strong Mississippi tornadoes, a surprise tornado in West Virginia, and a look back at the first event we covered in Michigan where the NWS seems to think warnings were in place ahead of all the…
It's time for episode 5 from the Debris Ballers. This time around we're going to take a look back at the week of April 13th which featured a couple surprise severe weather episodes and one very well…