Jeff is releasing his first DVD of his chases. Jeff travels all over tornado alley in search of tornadoes and severe weather. His work has been seen nationwide in the media such as The Weather Channel, The Discovery Channel, Weather Nation, ABC Good Morning America, and NBC Night Line. This has been made possible by teaming up with SevereStudios.com, where Jeff also streams Live Video. This 2011 chase season, Jeff added the Dome cam to get an awesome angle of storm footage. The 2010 season is in SD and the 2011 season is in HD. This is a must have DVD for any chaser or weather enthusiast.
This DVD is now available!!!
98min of footage.
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Jeff and Brian and friend Ryan left around 10:30am from with the original target of Barton, NE. Once we got there we waited on storm development for a good hour. During that time, Jeff was able to set up his dome cam, determined not to miss another epic tornado captured on the dome like the Wood Lake Tornado. Storms formed quickly and had some good potential, but soon fell apart. After much seeing these wouldn’t do it, we blasted up north to intercept the tornadic storm that was coming out of Cherry county. We made it there just as the sun was starting to set which lit up the storm so beautifully. A mothership like meso was seen on this storm. We stayed with it until it fell apart as it was getting dark. No tornadoes today but a beauty storm.
Jeff and Brian left from Omaha at noon and headed out west with our target of Valentine, NE. We arrived and waited with no initiation. We waited about 2hrs before tornadic storms initiated. We got in the perfect position just east of Valentine, NE. The first storm had amazing rotation. The RFD came down and created a clear slot with the sunset in between. Rotation tightened up but fell apart. The storm began to recycle again RFD came down a created a nice clear slot. This time however the rotation tightened up and a funnel formed. The funnel was persistent and soon made contact with the ground. The funnel was just about overhead so we then blasted east to keep in front of it. Rain then began to wrap around the tornado making it impossible to go east and see the tornado, so we found a dirt road and let the tornado pass then follow it from behind. The tornado formed into a large stove pipe tornado that was white. Simply beautiful to see in person. The tornado was on the ground for about 12 min then finally roped out. We then went back up to the highway to make an attempt to get in front of the storm again for another play. On the way, we noticed another storm to the north east go tornado warned and produce a brief needle tornado. After watching that storm pass and weaken, we decided to blast south east to get back into position for our first storm that still looked strong. It soon got dark we decided to head back to Omaha. The whole tornado cycle was streamed live. This was also seen the next day on ABC Good Morning America, The Weather Channel, Weather Nation, NBC Night Line, and a lot of local news stations like ABC Ch. 8 Lincoln.Overall was a great late season tornado that few people got to see in person.
Jeff, Brian, and friends headed out of Omaha at 2:30 once Jeff was able to get out of work. We headed west on I-80 and saw the storm further to the south west and seeing numerous tornado reports on Spotter network. Hoping we didn’t miss the big show we planned to get to York, NE and see if storms would fire. We noticed a outflow boundary working its way up toward us so we decided to stop and see if storms would fire along the boundary. Sure enough storms began to fire to se headed a few miles south west to get right up on them. Shortly after we saw a brief funnel. Following the funnel a beautiful slender white funnel came about 3/4th to the ground and then noticed it briefly caused a spin up. After that we the storm got in front of us so we tried to go north and get back to I80 to head east to get back in front of the storm. Just as we were nearing the Bradshaw exit we saw the dust swirl just north of the highway. We exited and followed the storm stopping a few times to film. This was streamed live and was seen on The Weather Channel and WOWT-Omaha live. The tornado grew and became a nice stove pipe and was on the ground for at least 15 min. We tried to keep up with the tornado and then we ran into down power lines crossing the road and were unable to pass and were forced to back track. The storm end up getting away from us and once we were able to catch back up the storm lost its intensity and died. We went then to Fremont to celebrate over a dinner when we noticed half the city did not have power and then we saw many down tress. Later we found a weak tornado went through there as well.
Jeff and friends left Omaha, NE at 7:30am on Monday to our target of Enid, Oklahoma. On the way down, we stopped through Reading, KS to evaluate the damage where a EF3 tornado went through just 2 days before. We then continued to Enid, OK to wait for storms to fire. There in Enid, Jeff discovered internet card was acting up and would connect and disconnect every few minutes only allowing for updates here and there. We soon got an update to show storms were developing to our south west. Jeff then decided to head west. We then met up with a Severe storm to our south west and watch it as it turned tornado warned and spun a few funnels. One of the funnels we noticed to be persistent and start to near the ground. Jeff decided to blast west to get closer to the rotation that was near us. The funnel was about 3/4th to the ground but we were blocked by trees to see if there was ground circulation. Later we learned that there was indeed ground circulation so was out 1st tornado of the day which was just North West of Okeen, Oklahoma. Storms shortly after began to turn into a MCS mess. Jeff then decided to blast south to intercept a isolated cell in hopes that it would become severe or tornado warned. Jeff met up with the storm just east of Greenfeild, OK. We were then blasted with 60mph sand filled inflow. The storm looked to produce a brief spin up so we blasted toward it. We stuck with the storm until it later died, only producing a few funnels. We then headed to Stillwater to spend the night and get ready for a big day.
Tuesday we had lunch at Eskimo Joes and then blasted west for looked to be a early show. Jeff intercepted the first tornado warned storm of the day near Oakwood, OK. The storm had a nice wall cloud and we filmed it for a good while. It didn’t seem to have much rotation at the time. When the storm neared, Jeff decided to blast east on a dirt road since hwy 270 only lead to the north west away from the storm. The dirt roads were so bad and tall trees prevented any visual of the storm. Jeff was forced to go back to hwy 270 and head north west until we could reach the next east option which was hwy 51 to Canton. By the time we reached hwy 51, the storm was already to our north east and all we could see was rain. It was then we learned the was a large tornado over Canton Lake. Jeff tried to get back in position to get a visual but by the time we did, the tornado had dissipated. We stuck with the storm in a long line of chaser convergence, and it soon produced a nice rope tornado that lasted about 5 min. The storm began to die shortly after that. Jeff then decided to blast south east to intercept the tornadic cells coming out of OKC area. We were not able to make it in time to see the Guthrie tornado, but we intercepted the storm at Stillwater, OK. By then all we could see was a rain wrapped wall cloud. After the storm was done we went to Guthrie to see the extent of the damage. After that we then headed back the long drive back to Omaha, NE making it back at 4am.
Jeff and Brian headed out after Jeff was able to get out of work to a tornadic cell that was near Schuyler, NE. On our way, a tornado was reported. By the time we got there the storm was dying. We then headed south west to storms that were developing near York. Storms continued to the north east as we continued to meet up with them. Once we got to the southernmost one it went tornado warned. As we pulled up, a beautiful wall cloud was seen. The rotation on the storm did not last very long and the storm soon gusted out.
Jeff, Brian, and friends headed south from Omaha, NE around 8:30 am. Our original target was near Pratt, KS. We noticed storms firing to the north and to our south. So we decided to chase the north storms since they were closer to the triple point and on the way back to Omaha. The choice ended up being the correct one with storms going tornado warned. We met up with the storm near Russel, KS. The motion was insane and numerous funnels were seen. There was a ton of traffic as well due to chaser convergence. The storm then started to die and a new one develop to the south. On our way to chase that storm we noticed a fire. We went to check it out and saw it was a shed on fire due to a lightning strike. After we made sure everyone was ok and fire department was on their way, we continued to intercept the storm just north of Salina, KS. On the way there we noticed rapid inflow and a funnel began to come down. We decided to blast east to get closer but on the way we were completely blocked by trees. By the time we cleared the trees the funnel was gone. Later we learned there was a brief tornado from that but we missed it. We then continued to chase the storm till dark.
