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]
May 18, 2015 Pecos/Coyanosa TX tornadic supercell
Our chase tour group began this day in Amarillo, TX. The previous day had been a “down” day — we repositioned from Dodge City… [Read More]
May 15, 2015 Cherry County, NE, tornado
Video of this event by Tempest guide Chris Gullikson This was the fifth chase day for the folks on 11-day Tour 3, and it… [Read More]
May 5, 2015 West Texas tornadoes
Severe weather prospects did not look too shabby on this chase day. In my morning briefing to the tour group in Fort Stockton,TX, I… [Read More]
June 18, 2014 Woonsocket, SD tornadoes
Following our long chase day yesterday across South Dakota, we awoke in Lemmon, SD, with another rather lengthy drive ahead of us. There was… [Read More]