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NEW FOOTAGE SNEAK PEEKS

Strange, beautiful storms, neato lightning, and a tornadough? 

YOU'LL ALSO NOTICE one of many reasons why it was a bad idea for me to switch from iPhones to the Samsung Galaxy S9+.  

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Yesterday's Mind Blowing Discovery!

This is a scene I shot yesterday near Scott City KS.  The RFD dropped, wrapped and cut a clear slot around a scud sucking lowering.  It looked like a brief tornado might have occurred.  ...

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Target Area 1, 2, or 3?

I uploaded a pic of today's possible targets using the patreon app. I'm curious if you guys can see it. (Also accidentally changed my avatar to meteo-spaghetti). TARGET AREA ONE is west of Dodge Cit...

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The Car, the Tree, the Week

Insurance totaled my car so it appears I will start car shopping, but after this week's round of storms.  You guys arrived at the right time. 

I STARTED EDITING a fun new video where I exa...

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What a Day!

This was happening all over the place for quite awhile.  Thank you good night! 

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This Trail / Storm Reports

Been white knuckling the steering wheel for 2.5 days.  Saw a brief camera shy funnel cloud in South Dakota Sunday and some nice mesocyclonic-ish structure in SE Nebraska yesterday. The highlights...

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Sh-tuff All Over The Place

Heading to South Dakota for this evenings storms. Tomorrow near Kansas City maybe and Tuesday in the Panhandles. None of these events are looking like prolific tornado producers at the moment, but the...

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THE DEATH RIDGE - Storm season 2018

It sounds way more dramatic than it is, but often during the storm season, high pressure develops over the Plains.  This big ol' dumb dome of stable air forces the jet stream up in to Canada.

I...

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YESTERDAYS'S LIGHTNING - Tomorrows BS

Fantastic lightning display yesterday in North and Central Nebraska.  Last couple years I've been trying to capture great images of lightning in the daytime and yesterday delivered some more good...

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Finally, RED SPRITES!!!

After dozens of attempts (nice way of saying failures) I finally captured some red sprites last night. 4 of them!  Dim, yet brilliant red flashes exploding over thunderstorms. The bright full moo...

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Funnel Cloud or Tornado? Waynoka OK 5-29-18

Gnarly storm near Waynoka Oklahoma today. Isn't that the town in the movie Twister?  Loved the storm colors, the red brick town and the surreal greenage.  I was calling the dangle a funnel, ...

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Yesterday's Supercell - Today's Tornadoes

LAST NIGHT the storm was extremely photogenic. It kicked up a lot of dust around sunset and the whole thing went sepia. The lightning activity and storm structure was fantastic. Looking forward to pos...

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T.I.T. Wrecked - Today, Tomorrow & the Next

287 near Vernon TX at 2AM is a long straight dark highway. I was going 70 and the headlights behind were approaching FAST. I braced for impact but right at the last second, the crackhead awoke from hi...

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Kansas Storm Chase - Sneak Peek

Here's some behind the scenes storms and friends from last week in Colorado and Kansas.   The crystal ball is suggesting that next week could be interesting.  To be continued... 

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NEXT VIDEO...

Fellow patron Sean Kirwan had a request... And it was a good one.  Hoping to have this video completed tomorrow evening.  Found a few tornado clips I've never posted.  I suppose that ki...

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UPDATE: May 20th

It's been a whirlwind!  Not exactly the kind I've been looking for...  

MAY 18th weak storms developed in SW Kansas but when the lights went out, man they were sparky. Snapped a thousand s...

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Dung Will Never Be the Same Again.

The watered down decaf I'm drinking is stronger than the storms yesterday in Colorado. I'm not complaining... It was actually nice. Sat on a hill and shot a typical glorious sunset while occasional cl...

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Yesterday Today Tomorrow

Followed a fun storm yesterday from Tucumcari New Mexico to Mule Shoe Texas.  Nothing unusual... The TIT got sand blasted and ice blasted, but the show was the mammatus clouds at sunset. 

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New Mexico / Texas today...

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Target Areas / Cabin Fever in May?

The strong upper level flow and 60s dew points that are common this time of year in the Alley have left the building.  Weak dynamics continue to bring a whole lotta uncertainty regarding tornado ...

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Storm Chase Video 5.1.18

Here is some Patreon exclusive raw 4K footage from the tornado chase up in Kansas last week. 

Nothing in the latest forecast runs screams tornado activity, but the models don't factor in someth...

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5.02.18 Oklahoma Storms Report

Nothing crazy unusual yesterday, but a lotta fun chasing storms in Western Oklahoma. Spent a lot of time inside hookish echoes, but no dangly bits.  I crossed paths with two other storm chasers w...

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5.01.18 Storm Chase Report / Bounce Time

May 01, 2018 Storm chase report:

For five fighting hours I was snuggled up with this storm... Except the 3 minutes it dropped a tornado.  99 good decisions and 1 not so good choice of a road kn...

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HOT DANG! We did it.

Wanted to extend my sincere gratitude to y'all for taking care of this channel. That means the world to me.  We reached our goal of $2500 and I'm looking forward to putting your hard earned money...

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Fireflies vs Lightning

It's been a slower than average year and the latest forecast runs suggest little activity in Tornado Alley until around May 1st.  I'm going to take advantage of the downtime and see if I can prod...

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Are you Stupersitious?

Thanks to the EF3's and above for choosing this pic for me.  New silly video slated to be uploaded to YouTube tonight at 6:30PM CDT.  6 minutes of BS leading up to that INCREDIBLE lightning ...

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Which pic should I use?

My next video is going to be a silly vlog about superstitions, dove-tailed into last Friday the 13th's storm chase. I think I'm gonna call it "Stupersitious."  When I showed my wife the first pas...

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Friday Funderstorms

Many weather models have been in agreement over the last few days that the next wave of funderstorms is going to occur Friday in West Texas and vicinity. The first thing I look at while forecasting se...

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ZZZzzzzzzzzAP!

For the most part yesterday, I didn't capture any neato footage except this! This is a video grab of an incredible discharge near Tyler Texas last night. Would've been happy driving to Montana just fo...

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Precipitation forecast for 6pm

Very difficult chase scenario today. Messy modes in horrible chase terrain. Good chance of significant tornadoes somewhere... right now I’m filling up in Nacogdoches TX. Wondering if I should blast ...

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