Near York, Nebraska: June 22, 2021
A colorful storm chase across southeastern Nebraska involved a single, slow-moving supercell thunderstorm.
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Nebraska/Kansas: June 25, 2019
This storm chase across the Central Plains featured multiple supercell thunderstorms in two different states and several photo opportunities.
Southeastern Nebraska: June 11, 2018
I started the day focused on southeastern Nebraska with the potential for a few tornadic supercells. By mid-afternoon, storms in northeastern Nebraska started to rotate fairly quickly, but I wanted to hold off for...
Transient Supercells: May 23, 2018
Another panhandle chase, this time in the Nebraska panhandle, featured transient supercells, passing from northeastern Colorado into western/central Nebraska. Multiple isolated storms developed in northeastern Colorado during the afternoon, but it took some time...
Nebraska Supercell: May 10, 2018
The “southern strategy” paid off on Thursday, as I chased a relatively isolated supercell from far northeastern Colorado into southwestern Nebraska. Around mid-afternoon, multiple thunderstorms developed in the northeastern Colorado vicinity, but it took...
High Plains Tornadoes: June 12, 2017
The storm chase took a while to get going, as relatively high cloud bases limited the tornado potential until late in the afternoon. Once that happened, it turned into one of the top chases...
Central Plains: 9/7
September 7th was an interesting severe weather setup across the central Plains. It was fairly complex from the start, several days out, but even leading up to the night before, there were uncertainties with...
Elk Creek, NE Tornado 8/8
A long, three day weekend with a severe threat across the mid-Missouri Valley gave me the opportunity to get back on the road to chase. I left Atlanta around 4 a.m. that day and...
Nebraska/Kansas Supercells 5/15
Friday was a long day. It started out in eastern Colorado and brought me into Nebraska and Kansas before the day was over. It was a challenging storm chase, as the tornado reports were...
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...
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....
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...