Storm over the foothills flickered for a while before putting on the show of the year, me capturing multiple INCREDIBLY detailed shots! Including what I would easily consider my lightning shot of the year!

Drove straight from home to a Nebraska supercell north of Mullen that morphed into a fast-moving bow echo that blasted portions of I-80 from North Platte to Maxwell.

Tracked multiple storms along I-80 in the Nebraska Panhandle, capturing great daytime lightning, two rainbows, and a sunset stormscape that ranks among the best I have ever seen!

Documented the aftermath of a blizzard hailer out by Wiggins, then got right in the middle of another torrential hailer that lead to flooding in Fort Lupton.

My 1,000th Career Log! Started the day on low end severe hailers near the Springs, then accidentallied my way onto an incredible supercell on the Palmer that I followed til the KS border. Accumulating hail presented the best hail fog I have ever seen!

Impatience in western Nebraska won out as I abandoned the after target for the eastern target, then found myself smack in the middle of a storm hole, only to salvage the day with some evening lightning.

Another sub-par day of backyard chasing as storms failed to really get going, yielding only a few clouds shots on a short round-trip out east.

Poo-Poo'd the local setup and opted to stay close to home, making a futile run at some storms nearby as a landspout touched down in Denver.

Intercepted a hailstorm that buried southeast Denver in several inches of hail, then grabbed a nighttime supercell that flooded streets in northern Colorado.

Another over-performing marginal day! More awesome structure followed by a lightning photo nightcap in extreme northeast Colorado.

Tracked a intense supercell along the Missouri River south of Columbia, then doubled-back on storms up near I-70 that had a dramatic shelf cloud.

A line of severe storms chased me across Nebraska with impressive shelf clouds and a very weak QLCS tornado encounter southeast of Valentine.

Followed low-end severe storms off the Front Range up I-76 into northeast Colorado where they failed to generate a lot of interest.

Storm erupted along the Colorado Front Range, flooding streets in Longmont before moving out east producing several instances of damaging winds.

Evening storms pumped out a few bolts south of home, and I was able to snag a few shots before the storms turned to showers and fizzled out. Easily among the lesser lightning efforts of a otherwise solid lightning month.

Monsoonal storms slide north along the Front Range offering up a short window of awesome lightning photography! Some blowing dust from the storm's outflow added a little spice.

Another 'What Started Out as Lightning' turned into an epic night of storms; two rounds of lightning shoots followed up by the severe blizzard hailer that wouldn't quit kept me out til past 2am tracking and documenting storms.

Documented two tornadoes beneath a spectacular supercell near Slapout, Oklahoma, then followed up with some great daytime lightning shots around Arnett.

Intercepted a massive HP supercell from Kimball to Cope, encountering several rounds of damaging hail, hurricane-force winds, and a couple dusty spin-ups. Easily the most intense storm chase of the year.

WE were chased by a line of storms, and it showed off the whole way! Jaw-dropping structure and contrast the entire way, then hurricane-force winds in/around Kansas City after dark.

Documented a ropey rope tornado on early storms and closed out the day with a gorgeous wall of mammatus clouds.

Intercepted multiple tornadoes near Unionville, Missouri, including a large 10+ minute tornado just west of town. Awesome structure followed later on near Kirksville.

Tracked a gorgeous supercell off the Palmer Divide out I-70 into far eastern Colorado that spun up a brief birdfart-nado near Kiowa.

Tracked a monster supercell from east Denver out I-70 where snowplows were required to clear the interstate of accumulated hail. Picked up a second, scenic storm down near Limon.

Some pulse-type storms fired right at sunset, yielding the first backyard lightning opportunity of the season and I mustered one keeper out of the small batch I snapped.

Tracked a Colorado supercell for nearly five hours from Byers to Burlington and documented two brief tornadoes and plenty of hail!

Left multiple tornadic storms early due to insane chaser traffic and missed multiple brief tornadoes, eventually took on 80mph winds in Wamego, Kansas.

Intercepted the St. Libory tornado, albeit with brief glimpses in horrendous traffic, but had amazing photography opportunities around sunset near Lincoln, Nebraska.

A messy setup yielded a cluster of heavy hailers and outflow dominated storms with intense wind-driven rain and crazy positive strike lightning across southwest Iowa.

After intercepting a low-end severe storm near the CO/NE/KS border area, I would backtrack to intercept a beastly line of storms near Yuma with a funnel, hail, and awesome lightning!

Big bust day; left the Kansas storms too late to get on the Oklahoma tornadoes, and left those same storms too EARLY and missed the landspouts that dropped along the front.

Documented a pair of tornadoes out of a single supercell in southern Minnesota, including a very slender, fully condensed tornado outside Truman.

Played the Illinois warm front and intercepted a wicked looking monster HP supercell that put on a visual show despite missing a weak, brief tornado on the storm to our east.

Documented a couple brief, weak tornadoes in eastern Iowa, then jumped to more storms in Illinois that dropped some sub-severe hail, but awesome sunset mammatus.

Chased a couple clustered supercells across northern Oklahoma from Enid to Perry, but too many storms in an uncapped setup lead to a few marginally severe storms that ultimately yielded nothing more than a few scary looking clouds.

On the board with the first tornadoes of the season, but this chase will forever be known for the Illinois record-breaking hail over 5" in diameter, largest hail I have ever seen! And the best single lightning clip I've ever shot!

Went with the secondary northeast Kansas target over the primary Oklahoma target for better terrain/road options, but storms that fired were too quickly undercut and resulted in a bust along I-70.

Hoped for pre-sunset supercells in northwest Texas, but the cells that did form didn't strengthen til dark, where I would test the hail core of one near Memphis before calling it a night.

My 30th season kicks off with a supercell-filled day across southeast Illinois that ended in a blizzard of hail and an almost tornado near the Wabash River.

A late evening storm popped south of my house, and I ran up the street and set up on my favorite hill, the same hill we watched the tornado on our move-in day, and snagged a few solid photos.  I did make a little job down south to try and intercept the briefly strong core,…

A wild September chase along the CO/KS border included rivers of hail in Burlington, amazing structure, and some of the best nighttime lightning of the year!

A double-barrel storm day; first round included multiple heavy hail core intercepts along US-34 near Wiggins, then an at-home storm stole the show with awesome sunset structure!

Ed Grubb and myself intercepted multiple, very slow-moving supercells, all within an hour of Limon, and all with amazing structure and plenty of hail.

After multiple high-end tornado producing setups in the Dakotas, I of course would make the ridiculous haul up north for what would be my longest bust of the year.

Tracked a couple monster supercells across northeast Colorado with multiple close calls with giant hail that would grow to over baseball sized.

Storms in eastern Colorado struggled most of the day before a long-lived sub-severe storm exploded into a tornado-warned blizzard hailer south of Sterling.

A day I was gonna toss aside turned into one of the best overall chases of 2025 that included some epic daytime lightning photography and a couple stat-padder tornadoes.

A cyclic tornadic supercell from New Mexico produced a family of tornadoes on its way to Lubbock, including a monster, career tornado near Morton, Texas.

On a chase that reminded me a lot of Yuma 2023, I saw several tornadoes, including a long-lived, very photogenic tornado near Akron in northeast Colorado.

In one of the largest tornado outbreaks to hit Kansas in the last decade, we had one of our most intense tornado encounters of our careers. And oh yeah, wedge-fest to boot!

Incredible intercept of a large, high-contrast tornado that crossed I-55 north of Sikeston; one of three tornadoes I would document in southeast Missouri in this localized tornado outbreak.

Spout-fest in western Nebraska as I observed three of the multiple landspout tornadoes that dropped from a slow-moving supercell west of North Platte.

A 'Hailuva' chase that included two weak landspout tornadoes and a large tornado after sunset in southwest Iowa. But monster hail in both states yielded the biggest remembrance of this day.

Ed Grubb and I tracked a monster HP supercell in northeast Texas, tracking several potential rain-wrapped tornadoes, one we were able to see near the town of Lone Star.

Ed and I tracked multiple tornadic storms in eastern Mississippi catching a glimpse of a couple of the lower-end tornadoes and having a third weak circulation pass us on I-59 south of Meridian.

Opened 2025 with a daytime bust in western Mississippi; we opted not to chase the overnight cells with one producing tornadoes about 90 minutes north of our overnight stay in Jackson.

The biggest hail I've seen in over a decade on a very electric supercell in Kansas. And oh yeah, a baby-nado came out as well!

Ed Grubb and myself chased the largest tornado outbreak of 2024, documenting 8 tornadoes across Nebraska and Iowa, and covered a large tornado live for 30 minutes straight.

What looked to be a major bust on a higher-end setup yielded one of the best nights of lightning photography I've had in years!

In a season full of incredible tornado chases, why not have another one! Incredibly photogenic tornado intercept near Yuma that I did a live standup in front of.

In any other year, this would've been a top day, but two days after Akron, this SEVEN tornado day was just going through the motions, but added to an already career season!

The tornado chase of my lifetime, hands-down the all-time number 1! One of the most beautiful tornadoes ever photographed, one of nearly THREE dozen to touch down on this historic Colorado day.

Four tornadoes in Iowa sounds a lot, but when they all barely combine to equal one, it's a stat-padder kinda day. None-the-less, I saw four tornadoes in Iowa! Woot!

After the hailfest in western Kansas, we had a landspout-fest in northeastern Colorado. Saw several spouts before a mess of storms put an end to the chase.

I spotted this storm from my house, raced out the door, and intercepted a great hailer and a classic Colorado landspout tornado outside Keenesburg!

Another Iowa chase, another Iowa tornado! This part of a trifecta that included monster hail and some great lightning photography!

Any shred of my Iowa curse left was absolutely annihilated when Ed Grubb and I had a top 10 career tornado intercept outside Radar O'Reilly's hometown of Ottumwa on a massive, close-range EF-3 monster!

This chase was full of firsts as Ed Grubb and I documented our first ever December tornadoes, including our first Louisiana tornado near Four Forks.

A large November tornado outbreak across northeast Texas brought an incredible, close-range intercept of a large, very photogenic EF-2 tornado southwest of the town of Sulphur Springs for Ed Grubb and I.

Ed Grubb and myself chased a pair of Texas tornadoes, one a beautiful cone that ripped through a windfarm near Crowell. We documented damage the following day in Lockett.

A rather low-end setup yielded my best ever Illinois tornado chase day; half a dozen very photogenic tornadoes all within a few hours of each other on an localized northern IL outbreak day.

After over two decades of a brutal Iowa jinx, I finally saw my first legit tornado in the state, rolling right up a weak EF-0 tornado on the south side of Ocheyedan, Iowa.

A week after our closing day tornado from the porch, a big time hailer blew up and buried us in golfballs, totaling out our roof a week later!

On a day where it was nearly Meteorologically impossible, an 11,000-foot tall landspout touched down near my home less than two hours after we closed on the house. My wife spotted it first!

Less than 24 hours after moving back to Colorado, I chased down and documented a small tornado on my first full day back in the state.

A rather chill Colorado chase, tracking a slow moving supercell responsible for multiple landspout tornadoes and a hefty RFD punch!

A fun outing in central Kansas with a little lime-sized hail. Did not do a full write-up, but a video log covers this chase in detail.

A very long day between weathermanning shifts landed me my biggest ever March tornado near Happy, Texas; a 1000-yard wide EF-2 wedge!

Quick and easy chase from my house in Wichita, just plunged myself into a line of severe storms, documenting some of the tree damage north of Wichita before returning home to rain and lightning.

A bucket list chase to track a storm across the South Dakota Badlands; hurricane-force winds and one of the most incredible post-storm sunsets ever!

Tracked a slow-moving, southward-moving MONSTER hailer in central Kansas that unleashed hail upon the towns of Otis and Lewis.

An incredible supercell in central Nebraska yielded my only legit tornado of 2020, saving a tornado-streak I had going for 17 years.

Wrapped up a ludicrous stretch of weathermanning and chasing with a monster hailer in southwest Kansas that was a homerun derby of baseballs.

A rather ho-hum hail chase during the day turned into a nearly all-night lightning-photography fest near Eureka, Kansas as the sky was filled with crawlers for hours!

A late season chase outside the KAKE viewing area yielded a couple nice early evening tornadoes and a few good lightning photos to round out the summer season.

Significant street flooding from strong storms that parked over the Wichita area caused me a little delay getting into work to weatherman as my usual route was filled with water and stalled cars.

I was literally the only person on the planet to see this one tornado and it was not long after EVERY OTHER CHASER had cleared the area.

After literally the most beautiful supercell/lightning photos I had ever shot came my best ever nighttime tornado photo on a chase that was full of wall-hangers! Easily my favorite chase of 2019!

Intercepted a rain-wrapped tornado near Alden, Kansas and tracked the storm to literally my house and got clobbered with golfball sized hail.

A busy 48 hours starting with a day full of Kansas storms that included some decent hail and a baby-nado. But a significant tornado hit Eureka and focus shifted to damage coverage.

My first tornado as a Wichita resident and I put it live on KAKE-TV! But my chase ended abruptly when I was t-boned when a lady ran a stop sign in Arkansas City.

The day after the amazing Carpenter tornado was just a chase-my-way-home day that saw some hail out of a pretty supercell with a gorgeous sunset to round it off.

One of the most photogenic tornadoes on one of the best chases of my career! Huge hail and amazing tornadoes in Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska on a rare Moderate Risk day!

Documented a beautiful supercell and tornado near the TX/OK border and got involved with other tornadic storms in western Oklahoma.

Easily the biggest tornado chase during my five years in southern Illinois, a close encounter with the nighttime EF-4 long track tornado near Vergennes only a few miles north of my house.

Chased a daytime supercell across southern Illinois with a very pronounced wall cloud, then captured a lightning strike to a building in downtown Nashville, IL that started a small fire.

After weathermanning through the morning, I went north from the station and ended up stranded in the town of Tamaroa, Illinois where record flash flooding was taking place.

We started the day with no intention to chase and ended up watching half of the 90-minute life of a monster, ground-shaking EF-4 wedge.

An incredible, Top 5 all-time tornado intercept chase that included dozens of tornadoes around the Dodge City area in southwest Kansas. Also included my 300th career tornado.

Patience paid off in a big way as a series of picturesque tornadoes plopped down after multiple storm mergers southeast of Spearman, Texas.

Two tornadoes on a CRAZY beautiful supercell near Leoti, Kansas kicked off one of the most prolific tornado weeks in recent chase memory.

Incredible Colorado tornado intercepts, including yards from a large, dusty landspout followed up by an incredibly photogenic EF-2 north of the town of Wray.

A travel day from Illinois to Colorado that was to set up for the next day turned into an evening filled with incredible lightning.

A frustrating morning gave way to a rather easy chase as I intercepted a heavy hailer along US-287 outside Clarendon, Texas before celebrating my previous day's tornadoes with a steak in Wichita Falls!

Caught a couple close tornadoes on some slick, muddy roads in the Oklahoma Panhandle and got pummeled by big hail down in Dalhart, Texas.

Intercepted one of the biggest hailers of my career... and survived! Baseballs destroyed multiple vehicles at a gas station I hunkered down in as I documented the massive hail storm.

Easily my best ever off-season chase on a historic outbreak of tornadoes where I tracked an incredible supercell across southwest Kansas into the night.

A rather surprising day in eastern Colorado 24 hours after missing Simla where one of my good friends saw her very first tornadoes!

Easily my best Colorado tornado chase day to date! We documented four tornadoes, including one from nearly 50 miles away in Kansas.

Documented the world's shortest-duration wedge tornado southwest of Medicine Lodge before getting cored in golfball-sized hail.

A once-in-a-generation tornado event that included the infamous Pilger twin EF-4 tornadoes. A total of FOUR EF-4 tornadoes touched down within a few hours of each other in northeast Nebraska.

Another day of severe weather in eastern Colorado, but it was the flash flooding that took center stage as a school bus got stuck in a flooding ditch east of Denver.

A trip across Missouri yielded the intercept of a massive rain-wrapped wedge tornado outside the town of Marshall.

The widest tornado in history made for the darkest day in chasing history.

I tracked multiple tornadoes dangerously close to Wichita on a high-impact day in southern Kansas, including a rather pretty elephant trunk near Viola.

A day I saved after missing the Rozel tornado, I managed to get down in time to see a pink tornado at sunset near Sanford, KS.

A hail day in northern Texas leads to destroyed vehicles as bigger-than-baseball hail pummels us outside Hedley, Texas.

One of my top Kansas chases ever with several close, incredibly photogenic tornadoes across central Kansas on this historic High Risk day!

Quakenado, literally all that needs to be said for this crazy Oklahoma day where I documented four tornadoes. Oh yeah, there was an earthquake, too! Just another day in Oklahoma.

A low-end chase across northeast Colorado yields multiple spin-ups, including a landspout tornado, but it was the sunset storm in Nebraska that stole the day's show.

A nice little gentlemen's chase across northeast Colorado and southwest Nebraska that ended with great lightning shots!

A solid chase across southwest Nebraska that included a small landspout tornado along with plenty of hail, some approaching tennis-ball sized.

Another in a series of flash flood events across the Denver area as flash flooding from a severe storm over Thornton stalled out multiple cars and closed several local streets.

The active monsoon pattern continued to cause issues across Denver as another afternoon of storms flooded streets and caused damage to the historic Ogden House in downtown.

Our finale chase with Discovery Channel yielded one of the most photogenic tornadoes of the year and the afterparty that will live on forever!

A historic tornado outbreak across the Central Plains as our TWISTEX crew documented several large, violent tornadoes around Canton Lake, including a large EF-3 and my 200th career tornado near Fairview.

An incredibly photogenic funnel touches down in a field outside Longdale, Oklahoma on the same day we crossed the bridge of a creek with my name written all over it!

It was one of the biggest tornado outbreaks in history, and we barely observed four of the countless tornadoes on this insane high risk event.

It was eight years in the making, but I finally destroyed the Colorado curse that has plagued me for years! After many Colorado misses, I finally nabbed some beautiful Colorado tornadoes!

This was THE weirdest, most unusual tornado chase day of my entire career! TWISTEX crews intercepted multiple tornadoes in the Dakotas on a cool, foggy, dreary warm-front setup.

Easily one of the best TWISTEX chase days, including multiple deployments on the Bowdle EF-4 monster! Six other tornadoes documented and deployed on as well!

This was the best TWISTEX tornado deployment to date! In all, we documented nine tornadoes, including the large, dusty headliner EF-2 near Aurora, Nebraska.

TWISTEX contributed to one of the most documented and researched tornadoes in history on a beautiful long-lived tornado in eastern Wyoming.

Less than 24 hours after my last Meteorology final, I documented my first tornado as a degreed Meteorologist and the TWISTEX team celebrated with me dressing in my #81 jerseys.

TWISTEX intercepted multiple tornadoes east of Plainview, Texas and would later get stuck on muddy roads outside Cedar Hill.

A high risk in western Oklahoma that yielded only a couple tornadoes which we intercepted with TWISTEX on our second chase of the season.

My first major probe deployment with TWISTEX! Double-digit tornadoes across Nebraska and Kansas including a direct impact after dark after a wild chase of a multi-vortex monster!

Seven tornadoes intercepted by the TWISTEX team, including one that blows a mesonet vehicle into the ditch and knocks down powerlines on another vehicle.

While we missed the Windsor, Colorado tornado, northwest Kansas put on a show with several tornadoes intercepted along I-70; including one we watched from a ditch.

A big hail intercept in northwest Texas that smashed out windows and made a mess of vehicles. This was also the chase where I hit 100,000 career miles.

I intercepted a chilly, late-season Colorado pea-hailer that looked more like a snowstorm than a hailstorm and certainly felt more like one, too!

Our 'Lightning Net' activated once again and it lead to a nice little score in Lakewood with a handful of good (albeit slightly out of focus) shots.

TWISTEX team intercepted two tornadoes east of Lake Fryer in Ochiltree County, Texas while trying to gather hail data on an HP storm.

TWISTEX crews intercepted a tornado southwest of Hill City, Kansas and got into some hail before hijinks at a drive-thru later in the evening.

Started the day in the Black Hills and ended the day in the White Hail of Colorado; bigtime hailer with urban flooding aftermath.

On a historic evening in the history of tornadoes, a bunch of us on I-70 elected to NOT involve ourselves with the Greensburg tornado and opted to shoot lightning instead.

Gustnado-fest in northeast Colorado with one landspout mixed in for good measure. Intercepted some nighttime hail near Ft. Morgan to wrap the dusty day.

On a chase that featured my first ever probe deployment mission with Tim Samaras, our group saw three birdfart tornadoes in central Kansas.

This was my first ever chase with Tim Samaras! We departed Denver the morning of and drove to southern Kansas where we intercepted a needle-nado outside Protection.

A high risk day that would've busted, except we took the bait on a sucker storm early on and witnessed the biggest, and one of the only tornadoes of the event.

The day-before-the-day lightning surprise in the southern Texas Panhandle as we followed some slow moving storms til dark where they put on an amazing show and offered up some great lightning.

An eventful early season trip into the Texas Panhandle that yielded my very first February tornado and a crazy dust storm on the way home the next day.

This was the chase where I infamously destroyed a rental car in baseball hail outside Seminole, Texas enroute to my Dad's wedding in Midland.

Started the day and ended the day at the Colby, Kansas Best Western after making a short roundtrip into southern Nebraska to say we at least tried to chase a storm.

My first cold core tornado chase was a massive success as we documented five tornadoes near I-70 in central Kansas.

Second day in a row of significant flash flooding in southwest Denver, this time Ken Carly Ranch saw the worst as a nearby creek overflowed onto area roads.

Torrential rains flood streets near Ken Carly Ranch stalling out nearly a dozen vehicles that attempted to drive through the flood water.

Hoped early storms near Denver would provide me some action before I had to return to town, and they did in the form of two landspouts east of the metro.

Piddled around too long at the North Platte library and caught the last moments of the Big Springs tornado, then followed storms east on I-80 til sunset.

Intercepted a hail storm in west Denver, then trailed storms into eastern Colorado where I documented tornado damage along I-76 in Sterling.

After busting on my chase east of the Colorado Front Range, I returned home to Denver to get on a severe storm that flooded streets in Wheat Ridge.

For nearly 20 years, this was my number 1 chase! Over a dozen tornadoes across southern Kansas, including the Conway Springs sequence which included my first ever nationally televised tornado video!

My first big tornado chase day! In total, I documented 7 tornadoes across southern KS, including the Attica F-2 and a nighttime F-4 with Warren Faidley. My breakout season was well underway.

Intercepted a pretty hefty hailer in extreme northern Colorado, but not chasing the DCZV near Limon cost us multiple photogenic tornadoes.

A chase of convenience turned to a bust, and my trip home the following day was delayed due to a massive dust storm on I-70, and a trip to the ER upon arriving home.

Bailed on a severe weather conference in Iowa to haul down to Oklahoma and intercept three tornadoes on a beautiful supercell west of Oklahoma City.

Watched a gorgeous shelf cloud and got absolutely blasted by blowing dust, recording a 64mph wind gust in the extreme northeast corner of Colorado near the town of Julesburg.

A short time-leash had me settling for central Nebraska where we intercepted multiple storms and two tornadoes between Maxwell and Callaway in Custer County.

I scored my first major tornado chase in the Panhandles between work shifts. Three tornadoes, including the Stratford wedge and it's satellite tornado along with an after-dark tornado near Guymon, Oklahoma.

For the second day in a row, I found myself in a snowstorm-like hailer, this time, several inches deep hail stopped traffic in northeast Denver.

An awesome hailstorm near Ft. Morgan, Colorado made it look like snow and was my first ever nationally sold freelance weather video.

Another late start meant were were playing from behind. Tried to catch a tornadic storm in southeast Denver and documented damage left behind.

Denver rush hour held me up long enough to not be able to catch the severe storm along I-70 east of the metro. I clipped the core before the storm moved away.

My first ever intercept of an LP supercell, and it was practically in my literal backyard in southwest Denver. And it was very close to producing a tornado over the city.

It was my first set of lightning photos in over a year! I managed nearly a dozen photos of storms over southwest Denver!

My first semi-intense encounter with a south plains supercell lead me into some hail, but missing several notable tornadoes being on the north side of the producing storms.

It was my first officially logged storm chase in 2002, a long, multi-day trip that saw a variety of low end storm intercepts across Kansas and Oklahoma as my inaugural chase trip in the Storm Tracer.