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...
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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,...
Mount Hope-Halstead Tornado
A tornado touched down near Mount Hope, KS at or shortly before 5:00 p.m. on May 6th. The tornado quickly wedged out, caused some damage and continued on a NNE to NE track. It...
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...
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...
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.
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...
Big Lake, TX Supercell Time Lapse
Here’s another time lapse, this time from the Big Lake area in Texas on May 24th, 2014. The storm had a rotating wall cloud, but was beginning to weaken as we approached it. A...
Ohio Supercell Time-Lapse
It was already after 7:30 p.m. by the time that a pair of supercells were approaching I-70, to the southeast of Columbus, Ohio. With daylight dwindling and not much else lighting up on radar,...