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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'm years late with a storm log, but if you're interested in revisiting the May 20th, 2019 High Risk Mangum tornado, have a look. Lots of previously-unreleased photos and a (too long) write up about our chase that day. www.wxlog.com/events/may20...

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

June 20, 2026 south of Pine Bluff, WY: Sometimes you set up what you think will be a very cool timelapse but Mother Nature has a cruel sense of humor.

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Once again, I am in this image and I don't like it!

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

5th in line. That lead truck hauling the trailer was agonizingly slow

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I am in this picture and I don't like it.

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Can't believe this was 5 years ago already. Biggest blunder of my chase career could have ended it all.

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Stephen's Storm Log S10E01: Palo Duro Tornado (March 13, 2021)

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

First chase video in ages and I use it to throw a temper tantrum of this magnitude? SHOTS FIRED. SUCH DRAMA. Maybe it's just the SDS talking, but this video is gonna say some things that can't be taken back... :)

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Stephen's Storm Log S11E01: Go Home (April 21 and 22, 2022)

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

My brother doesn't want to go on another storm chase and this exact lightning bolt is a major reason why.

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Starting in 2026, we are launching a new "Behind the Chase" style format for future Stephen's Storm Log Videos. This will allow for more streamlined content creation.

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Stephen's Storm Log: Behind the Chase #1

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

My New Year's resolution was to finally start making daily progress catching back up. Each chase is too special to let it languish forever.

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

If you spin the wrong way next time I see you, you're even!

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

No I'm joking, the tornado was clearly cooler! :)

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I saw this right after I saw you and honestly it's unclear which was better.

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

That last pic really has a classic Simon Stalenhag vibe!

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I feel like online, detailed chase logs are such an important way to memorialize each chase. Thanks for doing these, always enjoyed them!

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Marty Supreme, Bugonia, and Black Bag were so in contention for the 5th spot. Mickey 17, The Phoenician Scheme, and 28 Years Later were some I had high hopes for for fell a little short. And there are still at least 10 more 2025 movies I need to see.

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Favorite movies of 2025! What were yours?

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

www.wxlog.com/events/may17... - check it out if you'd like to see a bunch of unpublished McCook, NE 2019 tornado photos or read a bunch of words about that chase. I try to make my logs as cozy as possible. And yes I am still this far behind!

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Also I am blessed for the privilege so it confounds my emotions.

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

I woke up at 230 in the morning and got in a flying metal tube all to look at this cloud in North Dakota.

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

So much 2025 chase material to sort through -- been a really fun season. Here's a small spout near Ragland, NM today.

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Render time on my machine is pretty slow, like 10-15 seconds a frame, but then again I just have a 1080GTX GPU.

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

While it's not magic, I like it best when a photo is 95% there, but you just want some very subtle cleanup of noise or focus. It's also good for denoising gopro photos in low light. This lapse was atrociously out of focus so it really pushed Topaz to the limit and you can see it in the artifacts.

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Topaz did its best to save this lapse from the oblivion of a bumped focus ring. Here's the awesome (confusing) genesis of the anticyclonic tornado near South Plains, TX on April 24, 2025. Never seen anything quite like this before.

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I hate to announce that today was our first... ahem....bsky.bust.... of the 2025 season :(

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

First one to spot the tornado in this photo wins. THIS IS WHY WE CHASE!!! From east of Roswell, NM yesterday.

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

A little tornado roar from yesterday to brighten your Saturday.

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

So nice to be out on the plains chasing again. I think yesterday was the most successful first-chase-of-the-year we've ever had.

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Finally finished compiling all our storm log data from the 2018 season (comically behind, I know). Of the 11 days we chased, we only saw one brief tornado on May 2. Of the 47.1 hours we were in "chase mode" only 174 seconds of those were spent seeing a tornado. That's 0.103%!!!

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

You are my official way of marking the start and end of chase season. Always excited to see the Rav4 out again - chases are not that far away.

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

A farm in every chase state..... goals!

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I'm so ready to chase, but I'm not yet ready for the brutal post-bust drive back to ABQ. Gimme that first west-of-I35 setup please!

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

A weird thing about #nmwx storm chasing is the perpetual proximity to history. On our June 3, 2018 bust, we just so happened to stop for a final look at the departing MCS near the Trinity site. Added here is the mushroom cloud's rough size / location. The juxtaposition of scales blows my mind.

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Serious question: Has anyone ever tried this. Legitimate answers only plz.

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

If you ever feel bad about falling behind on projects -- don't. I'm still writing storm logs for chases seven years ago. Case in point: www.wxlog.com/events/may19... BTW, if anyone has a more nuanced explanation for why storms were so uncooperative and transient on May 19, 2018, I'm all ears!

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Totally did that on Rozel day. I cringe now watching my wide timelapses cause I was totally focused on the rope out that I didn't even notice the new Sanford handoff until it was right overhead and a huge inflow gust finally brought me to my senses.

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

What were your favorites of the year? Any big disappointments or surprises? How was the year in film overall?

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

My favorite movies of 2024. Maybe a bit weaker year all in all, but there were plenty of movies that made picking a top 5 REALLY hard. Hated to leave out Dune Pt. 2, Furiosa, Anora, Inside Out 2, His Three Daughters, and Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The light comes into his face from one side and the darkness comes in from the other...is this a metaphor???

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Ok if I was going to start a PNW brewery, THAT would be my default starting point for a logo.

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

ahhh thanks my bad I interpreted the 3 subgraphs as separate results for lossy temp, pressure, and dews, respectively rather than overall input lossiness with shrinking y axis error. so yea that relative spike at 7 is weird huh?

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The x axis labels are suspiciously sequential across the 3 subplots. Does the 3rd subplot really mean we define dews with 7 decimals of precision??

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I like when the tornado is smooth yet curvy.

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Stephen Henry @stephen-stormlog.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

My head cannon is that after the events her character went through in Love Lies Bleeding, she changed her identity, moved back to Oklahoma, and eventually settled down as Tornado Wrangler.

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