Meteorologist from Valpo ⛈
M.S. from UNL 🌽 (SSRG)
PhD candidate at Purdue Univ. (STorMLab)
Kristen
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After 42 days and 15,000 + miles driven, #ICECHIP completed 24 IOPs across 11 states, including within 75 miles from both the Mexico and Canada borders. This totaled more than 10,000 hailstones collected by our teams while data was gathered on different types of hailstorms!
With @nebrnoisalex.bsky.social
Today will be our “last dance” (officially) with severe hailstorms in North Dakota for the #ICECHIP effort. History was made as we collected, measured, and crushed over 10,000 hailstones across ~20 days. We are excited for the dataset that will be analyzed for many years to come!
Have not learned the art of videoing while trying to watch a tornado with my own eyeballs. (~5:12 pm near Washburn, IL). Solo chase day meant smiling and waving as the supercell cruised by.
First big snow of the season ❄️
Today's 4th was partially spent doing a 5 mile run at 7 am in air-you-can-wear. Before photos of us only, and post run beers 😎🥵🎆
Supercell from #ICECHIP 's 20th deployment on June 20th at the ND/SD border. Lots of strong winds with this storm, but most importantly hail too that was collected!
Sometimes we get to do other fun things during field campaigns. A hike at Scotts Bluff National Monument this evening was one of them for me #ICECHIP
"Needle in a haystack" funnel cloud south of Philip, SD around 6 pm MDT today. Passenger side photo taken while @meteodan.bsky.social was driving.
Our 23rd #ICECHIP deployment yesterday was successful, and the sunset was incredible. This was Purdue's final day on this historic project that I'm grateful to have been a part of. Next up is a very long drive south to bring the instruments home 🫡
