IT'S CHASE TIME!!!
Looking to book with us but not sure when?
Below, we will help you decide which tour would fit you best!
Early Bird Tours🌪️
Our Early Bird Tours kick off the storm chasing tour season.
The Early Bird Tour 1 starts the third week of April, and our Early Bird Tour 2 runs through the last week of April. These early season tours can usually find us storm chasing anywhere through the Southern and Central Plains.
As our weather season changes from the colder “wintertime” weather, we transition to our classic “spring weather” pattern. Warm moist air from the Gulf of Mexico makes its annual northward push. This usually happens from March into April. As cold Canadian air masses continue to try to make their way south, we get a heck of a clash of air masses.
Mix in a mid-latitude cyclone and a cold front or a synoptic lifting mechanism such as a dryline, and we often get severe weather. Many tornado outbreaks have happened in the last two weeks of April, and this is a good time to be storm chasing.
Mayhem Tour 1🌪️
Our Mayhem Tours #1 through #3 can also find us chasing anywhere across the Southern and Central Plains.
We’ll start with Mayhem 1 Tour: Storm motions are a little faster early in the season, as we usually get stronger upper-level winds and our shear increases. Drylines and mesoscale features like outflow boundaries really start to come into play and can help to produce some MONSTER and very photogenic tornadoes.
Mayhem Tour 2🌪️
Our Mayhem Tour 2 generally finds us chasing supercells throughout Oklahoma and Kansas, but possibly as far away as Colorado, depending on the weather set-up. As the spring transition continues, weather patterns begin to slow some, which can produce multiple back-to-back severe weather days. We have documented multiple tornadoes in one day on our Mayhem Tour 2.
Mayhem Tour 3🌪️
During our Mayhem 3 Tour, we can literally be chasing from Texas to Nebraska or Colorado and everywhere in between. Weather patterns are slowly shifting a tad further north, but we are usually running the tornado chasing tours throughout the Central Plains.
The latter part of our Mayhem 3 Tour is historically the beginning of the “peak” tornado season throughout tornado alley and can offer some breathtaking tornadoes and awesome supercell structure.
Mayhem Tour 4🌪️
Our Mayhem Tour 4 falls during the historical “peak” of tornado season and is a coveted tour by our repeat customers. This tour books full very quickly. Tornadoes and supercells can be found just about anywhere there is a chance of severe weather if all the weather ingredients are right. During this last week of May, we could be on a storm chasing vacation anywhere throughout tornado alley, although Oklahoma and Kansas are likely target areas. On May 29, 2004, a massive tornado outbreak spawned several tornadoes from Texas to Kansas. We documented 17 tornadoes in two hours in southern Kansas.
Great Plains Tour 1🌪️
Our Great Plains Tours 1 through 3 can offer some of the most photogenic tornadoes and landscape weather shots period. Storm movement is a little slower as upper-level winds are not as strong and offer the potential for some crazy good photo opportunities. We can usually be found chasing from the Texas Panhandle and eastern New Mexico, into the mid to upper part of the Great Plains of western/central Kansas, Nebraska, eastern Colorado and Wyoming into the Dakota’s.
Great Plains Tour 2🌪️
Our Great Plains Tour 2 might find us storm chasing tornadoes and supercells in Nebraska through the Dakotas. Rural areas in these regions offer some of the most amazing scenery and friendly people. Many of our guests have captured landscape weather shots of a 50 – 60kft supercell producing tornado after tornado. And we’ve documented multiple strong to violent tornadoes during our Great Plains 2 Tour. If you are a photographer, professional or novice, this storm tour is for you.
Great Plains Tour 3🌪️
During our Great Plains Tour 3, we are usually chasing from the Texas Panhandle and eastern New Mexico, into the mid to upper part of the Great Plains of western/central Kansas, Nebraska, eastern Colorado and Wyoming into the Dakota’s. Upslope flow and the Denver Convergence zone are also likely favored areas for tornadoes. Often times we will stage in eastern Colorado or western Nebraska and target any Denver cyclones or upslope flow through the region. Because upper-level winds are not as strong and due to areas of high pressure building into the Southern and Central Plains regions, our favored locations include western Nebraska and eastern Colorado.
The Great Plains severe weather and storm chasing tours season spans several months, and each month offers something a little different from the next. Extreme Chase Tours recognizes this, and we offer a variety of different storm chasing tours and tornado tour vacation packages which cater to each different part of the overall severe weather and storm chasing season. While the month of May is generally accepted as the peak of tornado season in tornado alley, our team of meteorologists, veteran storm chasers, and weather experts know that tornadoes can be captured anytime of the year, particularly in the window between April and July. Extreme Chase Tours employs some of the world’s most experienced and successful storm chasers and meteorologists who understand that severe weather season is much more than just May. Because of our experience, we are able to offer our storm chasing vacations spanning the entire period between April and July, in a variety of tornado chasing tours that will fit your needs and wants. We appreciate your interest, and hope you’ll consider Extreme Chase Tours for your tornado and storm chasing vacations!