2025 Storm Chase Logs

2025 Season Statistics

TOTAL MILES:
31,018
TOTAL CHASES:
29
TOTAL TORNADOES:
36
TORNADO DAYS:
11
TORNADO AVERAGE:
0.379
TOTAL SPOTTER LOGS:
30
TOTAL ALL LOGS:
59
1K CHASES:
8

2025 Chase Logs

2025 Statistics

TOTAL MILES:
31,018
TOTAL CHASES:
29
TOTAL TORNADOES:
36
TORNADO DAYS:
11
TORNADO AVERAGE:
0.379
TOTAL SPOTTER LOGS:
30
TOTAL ALL LOGS:
59
1K CHASES:
8

Chase Log: September 9, 2025

Rivers of Hail; Incredible Lightning!
Eastern CO/Western KS (792 miles)
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!
TORNADOES: 0
MAX HAIL: 2.00"
FLOODING: Observed
Lightning Imagery: Captured
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Chase Log: August 10, 2025

Heavy Hailers, But The Best Was At Home!
Northern Colorado (150 miles)
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!
TORNADOES: 0
MAX HAIL: 1.00"
FLOODING: Observed
Lightning Imagery: Not Captured
In Progress

Chase Log: August 9, 2025

A Very Electric Eastern Colorado Supercell!
Eastern Colorado (514 miles)
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.
TORNADOES: 0
MAX HAIL: 1.75"
FLOODING: Observed
Lightning Imagery: Not Captured
In Progress

Chase Log: August 7, 2025

The Longest Bust of the Season!
Western North Dakota (924 miles)
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.
TORNADOES: 0
MAX HAIL: None
FLOODING: Not Observed
Lightning Imagery: Captured
No Report

Chase Log: August 4, 2025

The Year's Biggest Hail That Did NOT Destroy My Car!
Northeast Colorado (493 miles)
Tracked a couple monster supercells across northeast Colorado with multiple close calls with giant hail that would grow to over baseball sized.
TORNADOES: 0
MAX HAIL: 4.25"
FLOODING: Observed
Lightning Imagery: Not Captured
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Chase Log: July 16, 2025

Northeast Colorado (643 miles)
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.
TORNADOES: None
MAX HAIL: 1.25"
FLOODING: Observed
Lightning Imagery: Not Captured
In Progress

Chase Log: June 13, 2025

Nebraska Panhandle (450 miles)
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.
TORNADOES: 2
MAX HAIL: 0.88"
FLOODING: Not Observed
Lightning Imagery: Captured
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Chase Log: June 5, 2025

Ten Tornadoes! Including a Bigtime Bucketlister!
Western Texas (723 miles)
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.
TORNADOES: 10
MAX HAIL: None
FLOODING: Observed
Lightning Imagery: Not Captured
In Progress

Chase Log: May 23, 2025

Three Eastern Colorado Tornadoes During Akron 2.0!
Northeast Colorado (339 miles)
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.
TORNADOES: 3
MAX HAIL: None
FLOODING: Observed
Lightning Imagery: Not Captured
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Chase Log: May 18, 2025

The Intercept Of a Lifetime on a Kansas Tornado Outbreak!
Northwest Kansas (654 miles)
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!
TORNADOES: 6
MAX HAIL: 1.00
FLOODING: Observed
Lightning Imagery: Not Captured
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Chase Log: May 16, 2025

My Best Ever Tornado Chase/Encounter in Southeast Missouri!
Southeast Missouri (611 miles)
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.
TORNADOES: 3
MAX HAIL: 0.88"
FLOODING: Observed
Lightning Imagery: Not Captured
Full Write-Up

Chase Log: May 14, 2025

Western Nebraska Spout-Fest On The New Ride's First Chase!
Western Nebraska (851 miles)
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.
TORNADOES: 3
MAX HAIL: 1.00"
FLOODING: Observed
Lightning Imagery: Not Captured
In Progress

Chase Log: April 17, 2025

The Massive Iowa Tornado Didn't Get Me, But The Hail Did!
Southeast NE/Southwest IA (757 miles)
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.
TORNADOES: 3
MAX HAIL: 4.00"
FLOODING: Observed
Lightning Imagery: Not Captured
In Progress

Chase Log: April 4, 2025

Northeast Texas (438 miles)
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.
TORNADOES: 1
MAX HAIL: None
FLOODING: Observed
Lightning Imagery: Not Captured
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Chase Log: March 15, 2025

Eastern Mississippi (1,724 miles)
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.
TORNADOES: 3
MAX HAIL: None
FLOODING: Observed
Lightning Imagery: Not Captured
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Chase Log: March 14, 2025

Western Mississippi (1,473 miles)
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.
TORNADOES: None
MAX HAIL: None
FLOODING: Observed
Lightning Imagery: Not Captured
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