Satanta, Kansas: May 21, 2020
Good things to those who wait and that was certainly the case with tonight’s storm chase in southwestern Kansas.
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Illinois Supercell: May 27, 2019
The story of this chase goes back to the 26th. I bailed a moderate risk event in eastern Colorado early to start going east, as the setup was performing well short of expectations. I...
Colorado Supercells: June 19, 2018
It took a while, but one of the best storm chases of the year took place in eastern Colorado on June 19th. The early part of this season was very slow in terms of...
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...
Cimarron County, Oklahoma: May 16, 2018
An isolated thunderstorm developed over the western portion of the Oklahoma Panhandle yesterday. While the thunderstorm was not particularly intense, it did moved fairly slowly, allowing for me to sit in one location and...
New Mexico Supercell: May 8, 2017
I chased this supercell thunderstorm just to the southwest of Tucumcari, New Mexico Monday evening. The thunderstorm had mid-level rotation, but aside from a few brief funnels, low-level rotation was not particularly impressive. Nonetheless, the...
Top 10 Storm Chases of 2016
It was an exciting year in 2016 as I chased dozens of storm events all across the United States and even Canada on a pair of occasions. This countdown highlights some of the most...
South Dakota Storm Chase: Aug. 9, 2016
This video condenses about an hour’s worth of video into less than four minutes.The chase began with a dominant supercell thunderstorm that passed from southeastern Montana into northwestern South Dakota. Through early evening, multiple thunderstorms...
Saline-Dickinson County Kansas Tornado: May 25 2016
I watched a long-lived tornadic supercell over north-central Kansas on May 25th, 2016.
Mini-Supercell in Arkansas: April 30
After starting the day with a lot of uncertainties, I’m glad I stuck with this chase, because it ended up being worth the patience. Having chased the previous four days and five of the...
Panhandle Magic Part II: 11/16
In perhaps one of the last storm chases of the year, a tornado outbreak struck the High Plains from the Texas panhandle to western Kansas. It was a setup you would expect to see...
Panhandle Magic 9/20
A marginal severe setup worked out great, on a quiet day in the Texas panhandle with very few storm chasers out. A discrete supercell fired near McLean, TX in the afternoon and moved slowly...
Storm Footage and More: 8/9
On the heels of a conditional tornado threat, a setup with more widespread severe thunderstorm activity was likely on August 9th. I stayed in Omaha the night before, as I knew there would be a...
Tornadoes Near Kansas City
Just three days after a tornado in portions of St. Louis, it looked like the Kansas City area was going to be under a tornado threat. Again, storm chasing is thrilling and exciting, but...
A Strong Tornado Hits Tipton, OK
Several tornadoes were reported near the Texas/Oklahoma border yesterday. Here is one that I witnessed in Tipton, OK. Below are a couple of videos from the storm: The storm chase actually started in the...
Striated Supercell, Bucklin, KS
After being relatively quiet for most of Saturday across western Kansas, thunderstorms finally began to reach severe limits shortly before midnight. This particular storm had a Tornado Warning issued for it at one point,...