I’ll get this thread started. Apparently Iowa is becoming the new Kansas/Oklahoma.
Despite what looked like the not perfect setup, it was an easy choice for me to chase today given the close proximity of the target.
I left Omaha about 1p and headed down I29 to Nebraska City and then east into Iowa.
I chose to stay south and east of all the initial storms even as the first tornado warning went up on the northwest side of the initial cluster of cells.
For a while looked like it would be a huge mess, but soon a couple of dominant cells took over.
I was on the cell that looked great southeast of Red Oak near Essex. It had a brief funnel and had a tornado warning with it. I even had to drop south to avoid the big hail with it that was falling while it was sunny at my location.
Meanwhile there was one more cell that was organizing further southeast. Given the space between my cell and this other one, I didn’t immediately jump for it thinking they both could be a good choice. Unfortunately that ruined my chance of ever catching that cell and it became the tornado machine of the day.
I first attempted to head towards it while it was approaching Corning. It was frustrating to start out only 15-20 miles behind it and never catch it though as it moved at 45-50 mph. However while trying to catch it, it allowed me come upon the damage path of this storm.
First was Orient, which was hit with extremely large hail. I stopped just south of town along the highway and in the ditch picked up tons of stones 3-4” in size.
Then in town saw multiple cars with windows busted out.
I continued on to Winterset, IA and came across the severe damage to the south of town. After taking a few pics from the highway, I decided to call it a day and head back home arriving to some snowflakes falling here in Omaha!
I’m sure most on here have seen the abhorrent chase video posted by the chaser himself as he drove recklessly through both towns and highways with excessive speeds in a town and then running a stop sign at a T intersection before luckily stopping on the other side in the ditch.
People will never learn









Despite what looked like the not perfect setup, it was an easy choice for me to chase today given the close proximity of the target.
I left Omaha about 1p and headed down I29 to Nebraska City and then east into Iowa.
I chose to stay south and east of all the initial storms even as the first tornado warning went up on the northwest side of the initial cluster of cells.
For a while looked like it would be a huge mess, but soon a couple of dominant cells took over.
I was on the cell that looked great southeast of Red Oak near Essex. It had a brief funnel and had a tornado warning with it. I even had to drop south to avoid the big hail with it that was falling while it was sunny at my location.
Meanwhile there was one more cell that was organizing further southeast. Given the space between my cell and this other one, I didn’t immediately jump for it thinking they both could be a good choice. Unfortunately that ruined my chance of ever catching that cell and it became the tornado machine of the day.
I first attempted to head towards it while it was approaching Corning. It was frustrating to start out only 15-20 miles behind it and never catch it though as it moved at 45-50 mph. However while trying to catch it, it allowed me come upon the damage path of this storm.
First was Orient, which was hit with extremely large hail. I stopped just south of town along the highway and in the ditch picked up tons of stones 3-4” in size.
Then in town saw multiple cars with windows busted out.
I continued on to Winterset, IA and came across the severe damage to the south of town. After taking a few pics from the highway, I decided to call it a day and head back home arriving to some snowflakes falling here in Omaha!
I’m sure most on here have seen the abhorrent chase video posted by the chaser himself as he drove recklessly through both towns and highways with excessive speeds in a town and then running a stop sign at a T intersection before luckily stopping on the other side in the ditch.
People will never learn








