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Tornado Forecasting

Cheat Sheet

The atmospheric ingredients a 25-year veteran looks for before every chase — condensed into one page you can reference from your truck.

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What’s on the Cheat Sheet

 This one-page reference covers the key atmospheric ingredients I check before every chase day. It answers the important questions:

How much CAPE do you need? What shear is good enough? Where do you find this info?

 It’s the same checklist I run through before deciding whether to drive 6 hours to a target. Print it, save it to your phone, or tape it to your dashboard.

Who Made This

 

This one-page reference covers the key atmospheric ingredients I check before every chase day. It answers the important questions:

I’m Gabe Garfield. I’ve been chasing tornadoes for over 25 years. 200+ intercepts, including two EF5s. Lead forecaster for VORTEX-2. Bachelor’s and Master’s in meteorology from the University of Oklahoma.

I built this cheat sheet because I got tired of watching talented chasers bust on days they should have been in position. The information isn’t complicated — but most people don’t know which parameters actually matter and which ones are noise.

This is what I look at. Every single time.

The

Tornado Forecasting

Cheat Sheet

The atmospheric ingredients a 25-year veteran looks for before every chase — condensed into one page you can reference from your truck.