Begin: Wichita, KS Lunch: probably a quick convenience store lunch End: Wichita for the tour/Flagler, CO for me SPC Day One Outlook/20Z 1630Z SPC… [Read More]
June 12, 2017 Tornadoes, Colorado to Wyoming to Nebraska
Today was Monday, June 12, and it was a rare “off day” for me and Tempest Tours. Tour 5 had finished up the day… [Read More]
May 16, 2017 McLean TX and Elk City OK tornadoes
Start: Woodward, OK Lunch: Woodward/Taco Mayo and Arbys End: Sayre, OK 391 miles SPC Day One/20Z SPC Mesoscale Discussion 730 SPC Mesoscale Discussion 731… [Read More]
May 9, 2017 Tatum Tornado!(?)
Start: Tucumcari, NM Lunch: Clovis, NM End: Lubbock, TX 456 miles SPC Day One/20Z SPC Mesoscale Discussion 675 SPC Mesoscale Discussion 669 SPC Mesoscale… [Read More]
May 25, 2016 Abilene KS and Chapman KS tornado
Start, Wakeeney, KS; end Wichita, KS; 445 miles; lunch at the TK Smokehaus in Hays SPC Day Two Outlook, 1730Z, issued on May… [Read More]
May 24, 2016 Dodge City, KS tornadoes
Start, Woodward, OK; end Wakeeney, KS; 297 miles; lunch in Laverne (La Cocina) SPC Day One Outlook 13Z SPC Day One Outlook 20Z… [Read More]
May 23, 2016 Woodward, OK tornado
Start, Dodge City, KS; end, Woodward, OK; 275 miles; lunch in Shattuck, OK (fast food) SPC Day One outlook (13Z) SPC Day One… [Read More]
May 22, 2016 Friend, KS, tornadic supercell
Start, Kimball, NE; end Dodge City, KS; 529 miles; lunch at North Platte (Runza) Following the big bust yesterday in southeast WY, we… [Read More]
May 9, 2016 Green, KS tornado
Start, Russell, KS; end, Belleville, KS; 360 miles; lunch at Salina I targeted eastern KS today—and I was not sure exactly where in… [Read More]
May 8, 2016 Trego Tornado and Victorian Sky
Start, Oakley, KS; end Russell, KS; 296 miles; lunch Jimmy Johns at Hays Tornado potential looked good today from western OK northward into… [Read More]
May 7, 2016 Wray, CO tornadoes
Start, Kimball, NE; end, Oakley, KS; 415 miles; late breakfast in Kimball (at The Diner) Bob Smith and the Tempest guests and I began… [Read More]
April 19, 2016 Fort Stockton, Texas tornado
Chris Gullikson’s video for this event Start (for me): Las Cruces, NM End: Fort Stockton, TX The Tempest Tours chase season began in mid-April,… [Read More]
June 21, 2015 Northwest South Dakota tornadic supercell
Tour 7 for Tempest Tours began on the previous day and we chased an impressive (but fast-moving) supercell through the empty grasslands from Edgemont,… [Read More]
May 29, 2015 Dora, NM, tornadic supercell
This chase day had it all: supercells, a tornado, unreal sunset colors, and old, abandoned vehicles in a ghost town! What more could a… [Read More]
May 27, 2015 Canadian, TX, tornadoes
This was the fourth chase day for Tempest Tours/Tour 4. We had had a couple of decent supercell days already, but we were still… [Read More]