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Quincy Vagell @stormchaserq.bsky.social · Jul 30

Transient supercell near Quincy, KS. 5:10 p.m.

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Quincy Vagell @stormchaserq.bsky.social · Jul 6

Welcome to Montana. Supercell near Biddle, MT a short time ago.

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Quincy Vagell @stormchaserq.bsky.social · Jun 26

Goodnight, Iowa

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Quincy Vagell @stormchaserq.bsky.social · Jun 26

Saw several ground-scraping wall clouds across northern Iowa and southeastern Minnesota today. Each photo is a different storm:

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Quincy Vagell @stormchaserq.bsky.social · Jun 23

This was one of the most unique vantage points I’ve had of a tornado, in Beltrami Island State Forest last night. I watched this storm produce a few intermittent tornadoes in the secluded woods of northern Minnesota.

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Quincy Vagell @stormchaserq.bsky.social · Jun 23

Alternate photos of the supercell that produced a few intermittent tornadoes between Grygla and Malcolm, MN. Between 7:21 and 7:34 PM. Found myself on a questionable road, standing on my car roof to see over the treeline. Got a car full of bugs too, but worth it! @NWSGrandForks

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Quincy Vagell @stormchaserq.bsky.social · Jun 23

Earlier tornado and supercell structure in western Beltrami County, MN. This was at 7:34 pm in the woody marshlands, looking NW from near Malcolm, MN.

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Quincy Vagell @stormchaserq.bsky.social · Jun 21

Big win for the eastern target storm chasers yesterday. Many factors/variables can make or break a storm chase. Risk tolerance, timing, logistics, personal biases, model preference, etc. Sometimes you’re right for the right reasons, wrong for the wrong reasons or anything in between.

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Quincy Vagell @stormchaserq.bsky.social · Jun 21

Tornado-warned supercell thunderstorm near Reva, SD at 6:33 PM / 0033 UTC

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Quincy Vagell @stormchaserq.bsky.social · Jun 20

I wouldn’t be surprised if one cell tries to go up right before sunset, but a little too risky of a chase play for me

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Quincy Vagell @stormchaserq.bsky.social · Jun 20

18z subjective surface analysis. Very low confidence in convective evolution today with such a complex setup.

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Quincy Vagell @stormchaserq.bsky.social · Jun 20

Those low level lapse rates are awfully low, going to have to do better than that. Such a low confidence forecast

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Quincy Vagell @stormchaserq.bsky.social · Jun 20

End of the road for this supercell storm chase in southwestern North Dakota

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Quincy Vagell @stormchaserq.bsky.social · Jun 20

Earlier tornado SW of Dickinson, ND at 6:18 p.m.

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Quincy Vagell @stormchaserq.bsky.social · Jun 19

Last night’s supercell near Strong City, OK, finally got around to editing the camera photos:

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Quincy Vagell @stormchaserq.bsky.social · Jun 18

Supercell at sunset, looking north from Strong City, OK. 8:42 p.m.

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Quincy Vagell @stormchaserq.bsky.social · Jun 17

Will be monitoring an effective warm front/modifying outflow boundary across northwestern Oklahoma today for possible storm development. CAMs have verified too aggressive thus far with northward progress.

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Quincy Vagell @stormchaserq.bsky.social · Jun 4

Followed this grungy, tornado-warned supercell on the east side of the OKC metro area this afternoon. It never fully wrapped up, but had some gnarly structure. Near Harrah, OK:

A supercell thunderstorm near Harrah, Oklahoma.

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Quincy Vagell @stormchaserq.bsky.social · May 27

The final moments of Sunday’s night tornado in Floyd, NM, as it roped out. An expansive bowl of dust lingered near the ground for several minutes after the visible circulation had lifted.

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Quincy Vagell @stormchaserq.bsky.social · May 26

Condensed footage of yesterday’s tornado chase in Floyd, NM. First 17 minutes of the tornado shortened to 45 seconds from 5:18-5:35 p.m. Full video is up on YouTube: youtu.be/VLXkVJgogME

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Quincy Vagell @stormchaserq.bsky.social · May 26

I’m trying to eventually transition to here from X. Thank you for the new followers and the interactions. Here’s another photo of tonight’s tornado in Floyd, NM.

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Quincy Vagell @stormchaserq.bsky.social · May 26

Floyd, NM tornado sequence. Estimated start time was 5:18 p.m. and rope out at 5:40 p.m. Photos captured at 5:21, 5:25, 5:31 and 5:38 p.m. this evening.