TONY’S CAREER TORNADOES

Intermittent touchdowns of a weak tornado north of Potter, Nebraska viewed from the east.

Brief Landspout Under Developing Storm South of I-80

Initial Stages of Strong Tornado, Experienced at Abandoned DQ; Do not have imagery as developing tornado moved southeast out of sight.

Satellite tornado ongoing to the east of the larger wedge northwest of Lubbock.

Large wedge tornado documented northwest of Lubbock.

Wedge after Morton, assumed at the time it was the same tornado; damage surveys indicate this being a separate tornado.

Brief spin-up, likely satellite spin-up on south side of larger circulation; aired live on AccuWeather Network.

Fully condensed satellite tornado during main Morton tornado, captured on video and photo.

Brief spin-up, satellite vortex of main wedge that spun up and moved east across my field of view.

Incredible dusty wedge tornado near Morton, Texas viewed from the south and southwest.

Landspout-looking tube near the TX/NM border, likely on the New Mexico side.

Dusty small tornado north of the highway east of Lingo.

While eastbound, caught rope-out of this tornado looking west across the TX/NM border.

Brief Spinup Viewed From South of Akron

Long-Lived Tornado, initially viewed from south as I approached on CO-63 as it was a wide, dusty barrel before going all pretty on us.

Long-Lived , spout-looking thing viewed from south of Merino, likely multiple touchdowns of same circulation.

Intercepted on I-70 near Grinnell, on the outer edge of the debris field as it crossed. Video went absolutely viral.

Saw the initial touchdown of this tornado as we got onto K-95, but road was in a canyon and we missed the rest of this tornado’s life.

Brief spin-up on the north side of Scott Lake.

Long-track wedge tornado documented along US-83 before moving out of sight and dissipating west of the highway.

One of two twins, this one dissipating while the other became the long-track wedge.

First tornado of the Scott-Grinnell supercell, viewed from a few miles north of Scott City.

Brief glimpse looking northwest from the western side of town.

Documented entire, short lifecycle from south side of Benton. Aired live until it lifted before reaching I-55.

Documented entire lifecycle, filmed it crossing I-55 from overpass, aired live on the AccuWeather Network.

Aired live on AccuWeather, brief touchdown and lifted before the larger Blodgett tornado.

Long-lived landspout, documented entire lifecycle while stopping several times on approach to it.

Viewed from north of North Platte, storm’s third landspout and my second sighting of the day, a brief tornado.

My first tornado viewed on the day. This was the end of the second landspout produced by this storm.

Large tornado documented at dusk near Tabor, Iowa, looking south.

A second landspout churns up north of US-30 while southern landspout was ongoing.

Landspout spins up beneath rotating clouds on the south side of US-30.

Large tornado viewed from US-259 at Trail Road, south of Lone Star, Texas.

Remnant, rain-wrapped circulation crossed I-59, likely very near to just south of us. Tornado likely diffuse, but circulation very evident.

Viewed from Antioch Baptist Church looking north/northeast, again with terrain hindering a full, unobstructed view. (Video still: Ed Grubb)

Terrain and trees blocked our view, but we observed the area of rotation and the top part of what was a confirmed tornado.

Captured a low-contrast waterspout off the beach near Myrtle Beach, SD during Hurricane Debby.

Landspout that developed on the forward end of a slow moving HP supercell.

Likely the final moments of a satellite tornado as it dissipated on the road feet in front of us, taking down a couple street signs.

Originally thought this was the same tornado as Defiance wedge, turns out (again) that this was a different tornado that developed on the heels of the original one.

DOW Measured Wind Speed of 224MPH; Wall-to-wall live on AccuWeather for nearly 30 minutes.

Very close encounter on the other side of Soldier of a strong, but visually disorganized tornado.

Low contrast view of a tornado to our distant south, sighted by Ed as we got outside of Soldier.

Another large wedge intercept near Wolbach, originally thought it was the Elba tornado, but it was a new one. Intercepted about a mile south.

Large wedge tornado, intercepted from the south; super-close intercept north of Elba.

First tornado of the event, a quick touchdown that lifted as it crossed the road in front of us.

Wide funnel briefly touches down southeast of Yuma for the day’s fourth tornado.

Brief touchdown to my northwest, southeast of Yuma.

Large dusty tornado morphed into photogenic tube on what of the most unusual tornado paths I had ever seen. Did live stand-up in front of this tornado, first one ever.

Dusty spin-up ahead of larger, long-lived Yuma tornado.

Saw from I-25, Exit 39 looking distant southwest; had just done a selfie with Ed Grubb and Tim Marshall.

Missed the first half of the tornado, but was able to get positioned to the east and viewed the incredible rope-out!

Low-contrast view of the brief tornado that touched down south of the larger Gering tornado as I was exiting town after the hail.

One of the better views of tornadoes I had on this day, the fifth tornado and first I saw in Nebraska.

Distant view of the Hawk Springs tornado as I had repositioned way east to keep ahead of the chaser congo line.

Third tornado of the day, aired LIVE on AccuWeather from Hawk Springs looking back to the west.

Gorgeous, small tornado viewed from east of Chugwater.

Developed Over Me on WY-321 NE of Chugwater, Saw Funnel, but terrain and structures blocked me from capturing imagery as I was coming into the north side of Chugwater.

Viewed Highlands Ranch Tornado from near E-470 looking west. Chase partner, Ed Grubb, captured better still, albeit pretty weak given our location.

Long-lived multi-vortex tornado; multiple transitions during my 10-minute viewing; aired LIVE on AccuWeather!

The last tornado I would see during the carousel sequence prior to the development of the long-lived multi-vortex.

Another tornado circles around the western edge of the meso as I proceed north on CR-BB.

My first tornado after working my way over to County Road BB (16th on the day), looking north at career tornado #400.

Another touchdown during the carousel sequence as I continue to back south.

New spin-up occurs as I start to retreat back to the south, caught on dash-cam.

A wider, non-condensed ground circulation spins up east of the mini-wedge.

A mini-wedge, the largest and most impressive tornado during the carousel sequence.

The western-most of two brief touchdowns west of the highway looking north.

The eastern-most of two brief touchdowns west of the highway looking north.

Another tornado touches down west of the highway looking north.

Skinny, rope tornado briefly touches down east of CO-63.

Another touchdown west of the highway on my north approach.

First tornado I saw during the carousel sequence looking north along CO-63.

Tornado further back/behind the larger satellite during the triplet phase.

The larger of the two satellite tornadoes associated with the main white tornado.

The main tornado in the twins/triplet sequence that I documented from birth to death from less than 200 yards to the south along CO-63.

Brief touchdown to my north while I was editing video from the first tornado.

The initial tornado of the Akron outbreak, a ropey tornado that crossed immediately to my south across CO-63 and did no damage.

Brief touchdown to our north, confirmed by other chasers.

Saw out my back window while feeding the cats at home. Got one blurry shot as I got greedy and tried to get close.

Brief touchdown, chase partner, Rochelle, has documentation of the touchdown to our west.

This the most “tornado” of the tornadoes of the day, but still couldn’t get a complete tornado from it. This was the fourth, and adding them all up barely equaled one.

Largest, most visually ‘real’ looking tornado of the day, but of course I was north of it staring through a big rain core.

Another wispy birdfart, but another notch making the second of the day, even as they barely equaled half a real tornado.

Wispy-looking piddle-bucket made multiple attempts to be something other than a birdfart, but did ‘condense’, if you will, a couple brief times.

Satellite of a larger tornado to the southeast hits me head-on, fortunately was not strong and only popped my ears.

Large, close-range intercept of wide, dusty landspout; circulation was almost directly overhead.

Another landspout encounter southwest of Akron during this spout-fest day.

Larger of the two was a landspout as I observed a small funnel above this, could not confirm the smaller one further away.

Dash-cam catches moment a tornado hit a church up the street from us. Remnant circulation would pass near us on its short path through town.

Large funnel with faint, low-contrast swirlies beneath it.

Brief, weak multi-vortex with multiple brief touchdowns.

Long-lived landspout south of Keenesburg, viewed after sampling the hail core in town.

Brief, fully-condensed cone tornado, aired live on AccuWeather.

Top 5 tornado intercept, massive tornado we documented from birth til it raced northeast out of sight, crossing the road in front of us by about half a mile.

Power flash illuminated the funnel in tornado’s final seconds, looking north toward Yukon.

Observed Large Tornado Near Four Forks (First LA Tornado)

Documented top half of a large tornado, confirmed via multiple other sources (including other chaser drone).

Large, Strong Tornado South of Sulphur Springs

Wind farm tornado, documented entire lifecycle of this event.

Landspout viewed from US-83 looking west from south of Paducah.

First tornado I aired live on the AccuWeather Network just over 3 months after starting; unofficially the first live aired tornado of the network.

Originally thought this was extension of the Sycamore tornado; was surveyed to be brief tornado after Sycamore ended.

Best documentation of the entire event, long-lived, photogenic tornado moved slowly right to left across my view from the north.

Viewed while westbound on IL-64 south of Clare in a short chaser congo line.

Stationary viewing looking north as it eventually would wrap in rain.

Brief touchdown viewed from the west.

It took over 20 years, but this was my first legit Iowa tornado; buried in the rain, but completely visible.

Closing Day/Move-In Day Tornado! Dania spotted from our porch as funnel and we would watch nearly 30 minutes of this record-tall landspout less than 2 hours after closing on our new home.

Likely satellite tornado of the larger wedge that rotated in behind the main tornado.

Massive wedge I caught the birth of west of Happy and documented til it moved northeast out of my site after I was temporarily immobilized by RFD and slick roads.

Terrain blocked my view of the ground, but several chasers (including ‘Tornado Tim’) were able to confirm and document ground circulation. My only LEGIT Covid year tornado.

Nighttime video-grab of well defined tornado looking north after sunset.

White cone, briefly touched down to my east north of Alta Vista.

One of the biggest surprise tornadoes of my career; caught after hundreds of chasers vacated the area on what was a busted 10% in Colorado.

One of my favorite all-time tornado photos I snapped; gorgeous pink backlighting near Lewis.

Large tornado wraps in rain south of Alden

Brief needle-nado near El Dorado, Kansas.

My first tornado as a Wichita resident; aired Live on KAKE-TV two months after starting at the station.

Incredible photogenic tornado that developed just south of the state line and moved into southern Wyoming. Did a recorded standup in front of this tornado.

The nighttime intercept of the tornado that mowed through Perryville and crossed the river into IL where I documented it along IL-13/127.

Incredible, long-track tornado we tracked for nearly half it’s 90-minute lift along I-70 from roughly Abilene to Chapman.

Long-lived wedge tornado that moved from near Liberal to near Montezuma in southwest Kansas. I documented/witnessed the entire lifecycle.

Documented From NE-9 Looking West Toward Wakefield

The eastern twin; larger of the two after it crossed north of US-275.

The western twin; primarily documented along US-275 from west-to-east north of Pilger.

Massive, long-track EF-4 tornado documented along NE-57 to US-275; the ‘forgotten tornado’.

Brief touchdown prior to the long-lived Stanton EF-4 monster.

Best captured tornado of the day for me, the third in this set southwest of Wichita.

Beautiful pink-illuminated cone, saved what was otherwise gonna be a frustrating chase missing Rozel.

Nighttime tornado we saw by accident on I-135 after dinner in Salina; no imagery from this tornado.

Long-time favorite tornado, followed up Solomon Road as it was to our west.

Brief tornado touchdown on/near I-70 east of Salina, viewed from near the Ohio Street Exit as traffic was halted.

Satellite tornado viewed immediately after turning north on 22nd Road toward Galt (satellite visible on left side of wedge).

Massive wedge tornado, viewed from Mitchell to near Lindsborg, lifted shortly before Salina.

Viewed From K-96/CR-320 on the south side of Timken.

First tornado of this event, viewed from distant east.

My 200th career tornado intercepted along side Ed Grubb and Paul Samaras; us getting pictures with this tornado south of town.

Began as a crazy-looking multi-vortex before morphing into a strong cone that narrowly missed a casino on its way to the lake where it turned from black to white over the water.

First observed on AL-5 north of US-82; Crested hill after tornado crossed highway, dash cam caught glimpses through trees.

Likely start to Tuscaloosa tornado, viewed from AL-14/CR-119 area.

Caught the end of this tornado along AL-14 south of Aliceville.

Violent-looking white stovepipe, viewed from Gillespie Road area outside Macon.

Saw the power flashes early in the tornado’s life prior to it hitting STL Airport.

Large, photogenic spout after the barn destroyer.

Picturesque tornado, destroyed barn with debris flying into power lines. Best Colorado tornado to date for me.

Initial landspout, viewed from west of Byers looking southeast toward Deer Trail/Agate.

Brief tornado seen from US-34 west of Akron.

Brief view of likely satellite of stronger Wadena tornado.

Large tornado touches down a couple miles due west of us outside Slapout.

Multi-vortex tornado to our south that vanished into the rain.

Cone tornado noticed by ‘Eagle-Eyed Ed’ that was well to our south, but were able to capture on video.

Debris swirl beneath white funnel near CR-3h and CR-36, circulation passed directly over us.

Fat, white funnel with light ground circulation north of Genoa, viewed from I-70.

Brief spin-up near MM367 on I-70 east of Limon; small funnel observed over ground swirl.

Large tornado that crosses SD-73 to our north, we followed until it roped out west of the highway.

Incredible TWISTEX intercept north of Bowdle; including Tower Probe Deployment and multiple mesonet sweeps.

Low-contrast multi-vortex tornado viewed from north of Kingfisher, Oklahoma.

Video of initial funnel of the Bessie tornado viewed looking north along US-183 before it moved northeast out of view.

Likely intercepted remnant circulation of the Diller tornado along US-136; mesonet measured small pressure drop.

Deployed on this tornado south of Scott City on US-81; Probe vehicle has video as our view was very low contrast.

Video still of distant tornado around sunset, looking north.

Observed a large, rain-wrapped tornado about 5 miles west of Lakin, watched circulation cross US-400/50 before briefly coming into view as it ended.

Observed during fuel fill-up at end of chase, no conclusive imagery from our team; others confirm.

Likely satellite of Aurora, diffuse weak tornado spins up during main Aurora rope-out.

Large, Longtrack Tornado, Successfully Deployed on by Tim’s probe and our mesonets. Featured as our season finale tornado in ‘Storm Chasers’.

Brief touchdown immediately to our east on the southeast side of Grand Island.

Brief tornado hit and knocked down two trees to our immediate north; video still thanks to Paul Samaras.

Funnel touches down on south side of Grand Island ahead/north of us on US-281.

Caught while on approach to it, would lift as we arrived closer to it on a dirt road northwest of Shelton.

From north of Gibbon, Nebraska looking far distance west. First tornado of the event.

Caught tail end of Lone Elm EF-1 as we approached, but no media captured by anyone in M3 vehicle.

Long-track, well documented tornado from initial touchdown til rope-out.

Brief tornado spun up directly in front of mesonet vehicles, captured on dash cam.

Brief view of weak tornado, looking north from 300th Street north of Emery.

My first big probe deployment; Ed Grubb and I in M3 were about 200 yard south of the tornado as it crossed the highway to our north.

Brief landspout viewed from K-96 looking north, no imagery from my vehicle.

Southeast of La Cross, viewed briefly looking east from US-183; no imagery from my vehicle.

Caught tornado south of Ellis from I-70, rain-wrapped but briefly visible with power-flashes evident. No Imagery.

Distant view of large, EF-4 tornado crossing I-70; using Tim’s shot as he was closer, we had terribly contrast from the east.

Brief satellite spin-up, viewed as it developed in the field west of the road and moved directly across the road in front of us before dissipating east of the road.

Massive wedge viewed from the south looking north.

Large cone (likely satellite of larger wedge); Viewed from Quinter while ‘Lost’ in town; no imagery.

Satellite tornado briefly touches down north of main tornado.

Large tornado viewed from south of Quinter (first Quinter), dissipated rapidly before reaching I-70.

Dark cone touches down south of I-70 to our immediate west, vivid lightning striking all around us.

Tornado crossed I-70 to our immediate west, hard RFD blasted us as tornado moved north of I-70.

Brief spin-up south of I-70 as we were eastbound toward Collyer from Quinter.

Brief touchdown observed south of I-70 enroute to the interstate.

Caught tornado as it formed, then slid into ditch where we watched from til it moved out of sight. Eventually drove ourselves out.

Brief touchdown over Broken Bow Lake; mmesonet vehicles recorded slight (~4mb) pressure drop as meso passed over us on US-259. No imagery.

Brief spin-up, possible landspout outside Rexford.

Looking north from US-183 south of Breckenridge, flipped semi blocked our route and tornado quickly moved out of sight to the northeast. No imagery.

Long-lived funnel briefly touched down north of Braden, viewed from US-79 looking north.

Wide, weak dusty tornado, early in Super Tuesday outbreak, viewed from near Gallaway looking west.

Low-contrast view as we got into Wisconsin Rapids behind the massive hail, no imagery.

Brief tornado viewed from SD-44 south of Interior, looking east. No imagery.

Rope tornado viewed between Eva and Guymon along US-412/64 near Unity; part of Roger Hill’s tour.

Large funnel/brief touchdown viewed from 1 mile north of Eva looking north; part of Roger Hill’s tour.

Brief tornado spins up shortly after first tornado lifts.

Surprise tornado while sitting with Tim south of Perryton, the first of two in this area.

Intercepted a slow-moving tornado near Hill City riding shotgun with Tim Samaras.

Brief spin-up, likely landspout as dust whirl was under rotating clouds.

Brief touchdown after probe deployment southwest of Nickerson, Kansas.

First time being part of a probe deployment; successful intercept of weak tornado near Sterling, Kansas.

Brief spin-up north of Charters Corner near Sterling, Kansas.

The first tornado I saw with Tim Samaras, a narrow needle-nado viewed from the south along US-160

Viewed from near Sunray looking south, no imagery from anyone in the group.

This was the tornado that went on to hit Cactus, viewed from west side of Dumas looking west and northwest.

Distant look from south of Dumas looking west toward Boys Ranch-Channing Tornado

Brief tornado, looking distant west from south of Dumas (Did Not Make Reports)

Large tornado developed to our immediate north on US-183 and grew into a large wedge near west/south of Seymour.

My first ever February tornado, viewed from near I-40 in McLean.

Remnant ground circulation from last tornado of the event east of Huntimer, viewed from distant south along I-29 north of Sioux Falls.

Likely landspout, fairly long-lived ground circulation beneath cloud-based rotation.

Caught the rope-out of this tornado riding shotgun with Scott Currens after my chase vehicle was destroyed by baseball hail earlier on that same storm.

Brief touchdown after sunset viewed looking north from US-160 east of Kim, Colorado.

Landspout tornado viewed from the north.

Saw from a distance, looking east. Video still from old DVD pull as original video is no longer available.

Witnessed as we exited I-70 at Exit 180, looking northeast.

Brief view from Northbound K-147 south of I-70 looking east.

Beautiful white cone tornado over open fields documented from the west as 1-inch hail fell on us.

My first ‘waterspout’ as the tornado touched down on the reservoir and moved over land as we approached from the south.

Landspout viewed from E-470 near Quincy looking toward I-70.

Brief landspout viewed while enroute to filming area of second tornado, no imagery obtained.

Viewed rope-Out after late arrival. Do not personally have imagery of this encounter.

Viewed from Kansas Turnpike looking west, poor contrast no imagery.

Saw after the final tornado of the Conway Springs sequence, was enroute to Wichita via US-81.

Touched down to my west as I was moving north along Hwy 81 out of Wellington.

New tornado develops and is the longest of the sequence, morphing into various forms as it churns away. My first national-aired tornado video.

New tornado forms to the left as the other tornado dissipates, yet continues to produce ground circulation.

After initial tornado dissipates, a new funnel/tornado forms beneath parent circulation.

First of the Conway Springs sequence; stout funnel drops from wall cloud.

Larger satellite tornado that touched down directly on US-160 and quickly lifted as it rotated toward main wedge.

Satellite tornado that developed on the south side of main wedge and rotated out of sight.

Dusty Wedge I Viewed Looking Due West On US-160

The second of two satellite tornadoes developed. This one to the left as tornado #3 began to rope out.

Satellite tornado, brief touchdown from the initial larger tornado.

Large tornado east of Attica, Kansas looking west from north of Argonia.

Touched down to my west as I was repositioning to the north. No images of this tornado while trying to get a little closer to the action.

Looking west from 2 miles south of Argonia, Kansas

Large, after-dark tornado seen from the southwest along side Warren Faidley.

Narrowly Avoided On K-2, Hit Chaparral High School

5th tornado of event; southwest of Harper, KS just south of Hwy 160. Just east of where tornado #4 touched down.

Brief Dusty Whirl South of US-160

Large tornado documented from birth to death as it slowly crossed US-160 and destroyed a home on the north side of the road.

West of Attica, Kansas on Hwy 160; Brief dust swirl on the ground beneath rotating base prior to main Attica tornado. No images.

First tornado of this outbreak viewed from the east.

Double funnels, fat one touching down briefly.

Brief tornado touches down behind the rain core.

Viewed from US-183, looking northwest. Pretty crappy view, but it’s there!

Caught glimpse as we were northbound on NE-47, but tornado lifted before we could stop. Image of remnant tornadic circulation.

Caught rope-out of possible larger tornado blocked by terrain from our view north of Maxwell.

Saw While Approaching Guymon Via US-54 From Southwest

Satellite tornado of the larger wedge that I did not see in realtime. This was my first tornado in three years, and my first tornado on a legit storm chase.

Wedge tornado I did NOT see in realtime and only discovered years later in video as I only noticed the satellite in my excitement over seeing my first tornado in three years.

The Crossroads Mall tornado, saw in a power flash after dark as I was northbound on Eastern Ave.

My first ever tornado on my first ever storm chase!