Although there is a moderate risk of severe thunderstorms today, as forecast by the Storm Prediction Center, it’s a complex setup with several uncertainties. The biggest complicating factor is convection (thunderstorm activity) that’s already...
Friday was a highly anticipated potential tornado day, but aside from a suspect report near Goodland, there were no verified tornadoes as of Saturday morning. There were, however, several impressive gust fronts, gustnadoes, otherwise...
This was not expected to be a night for storm chasing. In fact, I started the day in central Kansas and was planning on checking into a hotel in Lincoln, NE and calling it...
The severe thunderstorm threat today targets southwest/south-central Nebraska down into the northwestern chunk of Kansas. A few isolated tornadoes will be possible, especially just northeast of a surface low from mid to late afternoon....
Wednesday was a travel/chase day as I started the morning in New Mexico and made it into northeastern Colorado by mid-afternoon. While some storms were firing to my east, I caught something in the...
Today starts what should be a long stretch of several storm chasing opportunities. Today will bring me to a new area that I have not visited yet, the High Plains across eastern Colorado. My...
After taking about a week off from storm chasing, it looks like there will be several potential chase days between Wednesday, June 25th and Tuesday, July 1st. I have been staying with a friend...
Here’s nearly complete footage (22 minutes) of the tornado, starting just as the storm was underway and ends just a few minutes before it roped out.
I witnessed a tornado from start to finish in Lane, SD on Wednesday between about 8:00 and 8:28 p.m. This is video from a video camera mounted inside my car. Due to this setup,...
This is a video showing a tornado developing into a wedge late Tuesday afternoon on June 17th, 2014. The storm began near Coleridge and moved erratically at a relatively slow pace.
If Monday wasn’t wild enough, things got crazy once again Tuesday evening in northeastern Nebraska. A tornado turned into a wedge and began spinning off multiple vorticies/tornadoes. A storm fired up Tuesday afternoon, but...
Panoramic video footage, sped up to 32x the actual speed and split up. The tornado becomes a partially rain-wrapped wedge toward the end. I changed location, but due to obscured visibility and lowering light...
One tornado touched down in Stanton and just as that tornado was beginning to rope out, a large tornado formed just to the east with a 3rd storm (funnel cloud) beginning to take shape....
The tornado that I first witnessed in Stanton moved northeast and was quickly joined by two additional tornadoes. These two storms, very close together, were quite destructive and ripped through Pilger, Nebraska on June...
Watch as a wall cloud lowers, eventually spawning a funnel cloud and finally a tornado. This occurred in Stanton, Nebraska on the afternoon of June 16th, 2014. The tornado crossed the road in front...
Severe thunderstorms are likely today across Nebraska and spreading east into portions of the upper Mississippi Valey. Some thunderstorms Monday morning are already becoming severe, but this is round one of what should be...
