Spencer Dant 🏳️‍🌈🌪️

Tornadoes, aurora, 3km CAPE/vort bullseyes, streamwise hodos with that kink at 700mb, and the stray cat in my yard. As seen on TV one time like 7 years ago

[Spencer Dant 🏳️‍🌈🌪️ @sdantwx]

Like a painting, but real. A dusty occluding tornado over open land as the sunset lights up its parent updraft. #kswx #stormhour @ReedTimmerAccu @spann

6.23.2023 - Johnson, KS

[Storm_Chaser_Justin @Justin_Zepperi]

Madison, Kansas Tornado between 2 bolts! #kswx

[Spencer Dant 🏳️‍🌈🌪️ @sdantwx]

A collection of phone captures from today’s mildly entertaining funnel cloud outbreak across the palmer divide 🤷‍♀️

[Spencer Dant 🏳️‍🌈🌪️ @sdantwx]

Update: there is a new funnel cloud and it is personally attacking me

[Spencer Dant 🏳️‍🌈🌪️ @sdantwx]

Perhaps a tiny little funnel cloud over Pikes Peak is a sign of things to come today 🤔🤔🤔

[Spencer Dant 🏳️‍🌈🌪️ @sdantwx]

Perhaps a tiny little funnel cloud over Pikes Peak is a sign of things to come today 🤔🤔🤔

[Spencer Dant 🏳️‍🌈🌪️ @sdantwx]

@swrightCO The hope is that stronger forcing from the Pacific increases into the summer (common in El Niño transition years, i.e analogs expect it) and helps us out. It’s called a jet extension and it is forecastable weeks ahead of time. Tbd if it works out.

[Eric Webb @webberweather]

This is probably the biggest Pacific Jet extension I’ve ever seen in June & it isn’t surprising to see as we discussed several days ago.

Buckle up…

[Spencer Dant 🏳️‍🌈🌪️ @sdantwx]

@swrightCO You haven’t gotten a serious answer, at least I don’t think. The plain and obvious culprit is low latitude junk. Here is what that looks like modeled. Moisture return is inhibited, trough ejections are skewed, shear vectors are terrible, and chasing sucks.

[Spencer Dant 🏳️‍🌈🌪️ @sdantwx]

Never wyoming

or colorado or nebraska or montana or south dakota or new mexico

[Cameron Nixon @CameronJNixon]

My thoughts on Saturday's chase potential:

[Spencer Dant 🏳️‍🌈🌪️ @sdantwx]

@TeamCheeseWX @StormChaserIRL The sky is blue

[Spencer Dant 🏳️‍🌈🌪️ @sdantwx]

Sometimes I dream about RFD cuts

4.13.2026 - Amboy, Minnesota

[Team Cheese Incoporated ™️ @TeamCheeseWX]

We are the best storm chasers ever. How did no one target this? Literally zero issue of convergence the entire time. Next time you run your jaw about other drivers on the road impacting your target, look in the mirror and target better. It's not hard, guys.

[Spencer Dant 🏳️‍🌈🌪️ @sdantwx]

@brendonme @LH2Enthusiast @StormCoker I got this in my morning paper today, it’s real

[Spencer Dant 🏳️‍🌈🌪️ @sdantwx]

@StormCoker Thank goodness for Colorado governor Elisa Marquez

[Matt Coker @StormCoker]

Man it finally happened….guess nobody will be chasing up north this year so don’t make the drive for any setups

[Isaiah Montgomery @GumryWX]

Alright, if nobody’s gonna say it I will. Why was this not warned? This might be the worst NWS miss in a while. Likely strong to violent tornado and no warning, what are we doing?

[Spencer Dant 🏳️‍🌈🌪️ @sdantwx]

@MattKoket @brendonme @PaxBiggs It’s your time

[Byron Morton KOAT @ByronKOAT]

Funnel cloud/possible tornado spotted 5/26 at 445pm in east mountains/Sandia Park. Pic courtesy Dave Harkness @koat7news https://t.co/LJFHVytJTs
#funnel #tornado #NewMexico #SevereWX #NMwx

[Spencer Dant 🏳️‍🌈🌪️ @sdantwx]

Following an uncondensed tornado in Colorado, we asked Kansas to make the day for us, and it did!

5.21.2020 - Sublette, Kansas

[Spencer Dant 🏳️‍🌈🌪️ @sdantwx]

@alex_bartwx @taylorwrightwx How many tornadoes have there been in May 2026 so far and how many of them were outside of Louisiana and Mississippi?

[Miller Stark @millersk02]

1. the county sheriff and commissioner had a meeting with me in which they wanted to discuss the extreme difficulty that chaser convergence and careless/reckless chasers posed to emergency operations. as chasing continues to grow in popularity, please understand that a high…

[Spencer Dant 🏳️‍🌈🌪️ @sdantwx]

Thank god I have been waiting for this incredible stretch of amazing storms all year

[Storm Chase Archive @chase_archive]

Well folks, we made it to the most active chase day of the year! 🥳🎉 Enjoy it while it lasts, it's all downhill from here

[Spencer Dant 🏳️‍🌈🌪️ @sdantwx]

Two years ago, one of the most violent tornadoes in recent memory rolled across southwestern Oklahoma doing little damage. It maxed out at over a mile wide and moved slowly eastward for nearly an hour. May 2026 would never.

5.23.2024 - Eldorado, Oklahoma