Typical instability-starved fall sups, but probably still the best birthday chase I'll get.

Apocalyptic parameters aren't enough to overcome Oklahoma's August tornado climatology!

We find the needle in the haystack in a marginal midsummer setup, albeit from quite a distance.

Promising parameters are wasted by early, widespread initiation again, but a gustnado-fest makes up for it.

Like the last chase, but worse: veered low-level flow and a southward-moving boundary yield a mess of merging HP cells instead of classic, tornado-producing sups.

A couple supercells are intercepted along a warm front, but the curse of 2009 continues and no tornadoes occur before dark.

A blue-sky bust in Iowa while waiting for the following day's more promising setup in the same area.

Yet another late-to-the-party chase for 2009; a photogenic supercell in southwest NE later in the evening is a small consolation prize.

Panhandle Magic to the rescue again - despite crappy storms, a stunning shelf cloud and mammatus salvage an otherwise uneventful chase.

Extreme instability and marginal shear ahead of a cold front produce unremarkable borderline supercells/multicells.

Just when the cap appears to be winning, an isolated, classic supercell explodes west of DFW, giving us windshield-cracking hail and great structure.

An extreme-CAPE environment south of a cold front produces a nice HP supercell for a few hours before widespread subsidence ends the show early.

Another long drive, only to miss tornadoes by 15-20 minutes thanks to a lack of data.

A high risk in Choke-lahoma? I think everyone can guess how this one turned out without any hints.

An expected high-CAPE triple point chase goes sour when boundary-layer moisture mixes out and too much convection fires too early.

Caprock Magic gives us supercells galore on a day with lacking moisture, but they're of the HP variety with brief, hard-to-see spinups the only daytime tornadoes.

Just another early-season bust with dismal moisture return in 2009...

A conditional-threat chase finally comes through when storms break the cap near the dryline-warm front intersection; the result is a nice supercell with lots of large hail and a brief tornado.

Despite marginal CAPE, a supercell produces an amazing wall cloud and possible tornado in southern Kansas.

A typical early-season low-CAPE/high-shear bust; our warm front target produces weak, elevated convection.

A wintertime outbreak of supercells between I-44 and I-35 defies climatology, but the only daytime tornado strikes in suburban OKC away from most chasers.