TONY'S TORNADO CHASES

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 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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.