A Chase Log is a Story that has been tagged to an actual chase. This is a great way to document and showcase your chase career to the Highways & Hailstones community.
Your Chase Logs will show on the Highways & Hailstones homepage and create your very own personal Chase Map on your Chaser Website homepage.
Currently, Highways & Hailstones support Tornado, Lightning and Structure Chase Logs.
How to Publish a Chase Log
- Log into your Highways & Hailstones Chaser account
- Create a Story
- NOTE: If your chase is from the past, change the publishing date to one closer to the actual chase date by clicking on the date by Publish on the right bar
- Under Post Options, select the type of Chase Log you wish to publish
- If Tornado Log, you have 2 choices of tagging the tornado event
- Search Tornado Database – This is the best way to tag your Story as a Tornado Chase Log. It will associate your story with the interactive Tornado Map
- Make sure you’re logged into Highways & Hailstones
- Find the tornado on the Tornado Map using the map and/or filters in the top right
- Click on the tornado track
- Click on Report from the tornado info box in the top left
- Scroll to the bottom of the article and look for the text that starts with “Tornado”
- Copy the series of numbers following Tornado
- Enter these numbers into the Select dropdown on your Story
- Click on the tornado event that is found
- Tag Location on Map – If your tornado does not exist in our database, you can manually add the location to your map
- Find the location on the map using the zoom and scroll features
- Click on the map and a pin will be dropped
- Search Tornado Database – This is the best way to tag your Story as a Tornado Chase Log. It will associate your story with the interactive Tornado Map
- Click Publish
