Scott Steiger

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

[Max Velocity @MaxVelocityWX]

FUNNEL CLOUD is coming down in Swanton, Nebraska, right now!

Storm Chaser Jakob McMillin is LIVE on this on YouTube and inside of the FREE WeatherFront app!

@WXPeterGriffin @WxFront

[Doppler on Wheels (DOW) @DOWFacility]

17 years ago today! As part of VORTEX2, we parked in front of an incipient tornado and collected coordinated data (also I still thought radomes were cool 😎). Lots of papers were written about the Goshen tornado using DOW data! Learn more by going to our retro cool website 💾👇

[Oswego Chasers @OswegoChasers]

Rotating wall cloud a few miles east of Ellis NE, looking from route 136 @NWSOmaha @NWSHastings

[Tanner Charles 🌪 @TannerChasing]

That’s more like it! Nice substorm happening now! Minot, ND 🙌🏼

[Scott Steiger @SteigerScott]

Our likely last chase day of 2026 gave us a special show: another mothership supercell thunderstorm! So many of these great structures this trip! #NEwx @OswegoChasers @sunyoswego

[Oswego Chasers @OswegoChasers]

Our crew just completed our 7th successful radiosonde launch of the trip near Milford, Nebraska around 22:00z. @NWSHastings @NWSOmaha @NWSSPC

[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