Scott Steiger

Catholic, Husband to an awesome wife, Dad to two miracles, Professor of meteorology, SUNY Oswego, storm chaser, COOP observer. All opinions mine.

[Scott Steiger @SteigerScott]

@OswegoChasers helped with soundings during VORTEX2 and witnessed this most studied tornado in human history!

[Jeff Frame @VORTEXJeff]

I had a great view out my window from DOW7

[Scott Steiger @SteigerScott]

Another spectacular day for @OswegoChasers seeing space ship-looking supercells, wall clouds, and shelf clouds! #sdwx @sunyoswego

[Oswego Chasers @OswegoChasers]

An incredible end to today with beautiful storm structure, unique scenery, and more rotations than we could count. Tomorrow is a new day- where will the winds take us next?

[Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci]

This was one of the sharpest, prettiest and most textbook RFDs I have seen. I genuinely enjoyed this vantage point as much as I did the tornado intercept.

[Oswego Chasers @OswegoChasers]

After our morning forecast discussion, the crew is setting up for a late show today in southern South Dakota and playing our favorite game: Will storms initiate to our east or west? Which environment is most favorable?

We'll stay put until we have a better idea!

[Oswego Chasers @OswegoChasers]

Another successful radiosonde launch from the crew near Chamberlain, SD at 2:19 CDT! Data incoming soon... @NWSSiouxFalls @NWSSPC

[Nathan Moore @StormChaserIRL]

Winner South Dakota Tornado today. Mixed in some real time and 8x time to help show it. Also added some of the amazing structure in at the end. Watch over on youtube for higher quality

[Reed Timmer, PhD @ReedTimmerUSA]

BANG! Major #tornado intercept in the Dominator F150 blew out the window!

Dangerous tornado to intercept given the rain-wrapping. This was a classic vigorous South Dakota supercell

#stormchasing

[Roger Edwards @SkyPixWeather]

Photo from Matt Phelps in our follow van at same location

[Shane R Muckey @ShaneMuckey]

Tonights Mammatus Sunset was Fire.

[Scott Steiger @SteigerScott]

One of my best storm chase days! @OswegoChasers @sunyoswego #sdwx

[Oswego Chasers @OswegoChasers]

Today, we held our forecast in the vans today, as we have some worries about early initiation times, and we want to arrive in time. We are targeting western South Dakota today!

[Oswego Chasers @OswegoChasers]

We have Kelvin Helmholtz waves NW of Oelrichs, SD!

[Scott Steiger @SteigerScott]

A bit frustrating day for @OswegoChasers as storms took awhile to get going, but we launched a sounding used by @NWSSPC , met with the @DOWFacility fine folks, saw lots of neat cloudscapes including KH waves, supercell structure, and funnel clouds (3) in #SDwx @sunyoswego

[Scott Steiger @SteigerScott]

@VORTEXJeff @OswegoChasers Thank you, Jeff! I’m sorry we didn’t get to meet up! We were close in Nebraska!

[Oswego Chasers @OswegoChasers]

Today was slightly uneventful - convection failed throughout most of the day, which we speculate was due to the lack of lower level shear. However, we did have a brief supercell that produced a funnel (possibly). Also nice to see fellow chasers and DOW-8 folks. Onto tomorrow!

[Max Velocity @MaxVelocityWX]

A brief landspout just occured near Akron, Colorado moments ago!

📸 TornadoPaigeyy

[Scott Steiger @SteigerScott]

Phenomenal day for @OswegoChasers ! Multiple funnel clouds, great supercell structures, likely tornado (funnel cloud with ground circulation), rainbow, mammatus at sunset, sun rays. Thank you, #COwx @sunyoswego

[Oswego Chasers @OswegoChasers]

After much discussion over significant model disagreement and conditional setups- the crew is headed to Colorado to be ready for today's storm initiation! On the way, we were treated by a dying storm with beautiful, ghostly structure ...

[Oswego Chasers @OswegoChasers]

@NWSBoulder Results from our sounding launched at 12:32 PM MDT from Brush, Colorado.