Top 10 Storm Chases of 2014
#1: Nebraska (June 16th, 2014) Estimated daily distance driven: 550 miles Having arrived in the Great Plains two days prior, I was now ready for what was projected to be a potentially significant tornado...
Category: 2014 (Chasing)
2014 SNE Weather Conference
A presentation at the 2014 Southern New England Weather Conference on my perspective of storm chasing. I start with the basics of tornado outbreaks and the challenges that come with storm chasing. I then...
Missouri Tornadic Supercell
A massive supercell thunderstorm dropped four EF-0 tornadoes (confirmed) between the afternoon and early evening hours on September 9th, 2014 in northwestern Missouri. The back story behind this event was very interesting. In fact,...
Gustnadoes Galore
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...
The Nebraskan Night
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...
Colorado Storms 6/25/14
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...
Lane/Alpena Tornado: Wide Angle Video
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.
Lane, South Dakota Tornado: Source 2
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,...
Laurel Tornado, HD Video Footage
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.
What a Night for Tornadoes
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...
Laurel Tornado, Time-lapse
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...
Stanton-Pilger Tornadoes Full HD
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....
Twin Tornadoes (Short Clip)
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...
Stanton Tornado Touchdown
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...
Saturday Summary
Saturday was quite a day, as I started my trip by leaving Connecticut at 7:45 p.m. Friday and arrived in Nebraska by about 4 p.m. A Tornado Watch was issued a couple of hours...
Possible Rain-Wrapped Tornado
Late Wednesday afternoon, I was in the vicinity of what appeared to be a rain-wrapped tornado in western Kentucky. Due to trees and rain, it was very difficult to see anything conclusive. Toward the...