Extreme Chase Tours Lanny Dean & Chad Berryhill Monster Oklahoma supercell

Early season tornado warned supercell near Chickasha, Oklahoma that Chad Berryhill and Lanny Dean documented. Wanna see storms like this? Come join us on a fun, educational storm chasing tour! Seats are booking fast so hurry and reserve your seat today. We will also be utilizing some new equipment to gather data in and around tornadoes this season!


         

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Extreme Chase Tours MAYHEM 3 TOUR SOLD OUT

Just quick update as of today (1-8-12) our MAYHEM 3 Storm Chasing Tour has just been is Sold Out. As is expected and is usual, we look to book the rest of our tours full very soon. Also, due to so much interest and high demand (especially since everyone found out that we will be doing much research during this tour) I have decided re-opened our Mayhem 4 Tour. We will be using 2 of our tour vans for the Mayhem 4 tour, so this opened up a number of seats but admittedly, we have already had many others reserve their seats and we currently only have 5 open seats left. If you have ever been interested in going on a real Storm Chasing Tour, Adventure or Vacation, or a real Tornado Tour, with true professionals this is the tour for you! Hurry and reserve your seat today before the reaming seats are booked full!

Also, below I have included a look at our 2012 Twisted Tours trailer to give you an idea of what you can expect while going with a real Extreme Tornado Tours and Storm Chasing Tour company!

     

For more information including tou dates and pricing please visit our website @ www.extremechasetours.com  We look forward to hearing from you soon

EXTREME CHASE TOURS 2012 TRAILER

Extreme Chase Tours Trailer for 2012. We had a wonderful season and are now booking for our 2013 chase season. Hurry and reserve your seat now!

April 14 tornado outbreak coverage

What a day to remember....I was lucky to help participate in the warning process with Jay Prater, CBM and the folks I used to work with at KAKE. No deaths....the entire KAKE team did a wonderful job and I am glad that Chad Berryhill Eric Duncan Jon Behle Brice K, Jared Cerullo and myself as well as others and I were able to help.

EXTREME CHASE TOURS SCHEDULE 2013

Well after much media interviews from live reports with Fox Business to many, many print, neswpapers and radio interviews, we had a strong interest to get our 2013 storm chasing tour schedule up and on the website. So, as of last night, I have posted the schedule and we already have had many people booking their seats! You can fnd the schedule onling at the link below:

https://www.extremechasetours.com/Schedule.html

I also plan on posting some video from some of the tours as a promotional trailer before we really get into the production work......very exciting times for ECT!

All of us at ECT would like to thank all of our guests for a great 2012 season and thank all of those who will be returning for the 2013 season! Right now we have only a few more tours and it looks like we will be playing north to see any real action to due this death ridge we will be under.

By the way, if you have ever been interested in going on a real storm chasing tour that is the most personal tour period, now is the time to book before all seats are filled up.

You can find more out on our website at:

www.extremechasetours.com

EXTREME CHASE TOURS 2012

What a chase season it has been so far with the Extreme Chase Tours team leading our guests to over 25 tornadoes, teaching and showing them severe weather and it is only June 1! I would like to personally thank all of our guests for deciding to go with us...it has been an amazing year so far and the Northern Plains Photography Tours look to be decent as well!

If you have ever had an interest in going on a Storm Chasing Tour, Tornado Tour Vacation or a Photography Tour now is the time. We have very limited seating available so hurry and reserve your seat today!

Visit the link below for more details.
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Extreme Chase Tours 2012

There has been much talk about all the "new" storm chasing tour companies popping up this year so we wanted to blog about this subject with the hopes that we will be able to enlighten a few of our readers. With the 2012 storm chasing tours season just right around the corner, have you ever had a thought about going on a storm chasing vacation? This is the perfect time to pick your summer vacation....why not go on a storm chasing adventure tour? With the growing number of

"storm chasing tour companies" out there, I know it can seem very hard to decide which one's are real storm tour operators and which company is right for you. This can sometimes hamper your decision to go at all! No freat folks.....we are the real deal and provide 6, 10 and 15 day tours as well as custom type tours for those that are interested in going on the adventure of a lifetime!

We let our success rate record of over 400 REAL tornadoes speak for itself as well as our experience. Our staff has over 100 years total experience in severe weather and we have THE BEST SEVERE WEATHER EXPERTS, meteorologists and guides. You will not find photo shopped tornado pictures on our website, you will not find false claims by anyone with Extreme Chase Tours, you will not find a company that has just started, we will not allow you to become a number and not a name with us, you will not be thrown into a 15 seat passager van that is packed full and kept dehydrated!

What you will find with us is that we are the most personal tour company on the market. And no matter what other tour companies claim - WE (Extreme Chase Tours) have the highest success rate of ANY storm chasing tour company. You will get real one on one interaction with our guides, drivers and owners as well as an opportunity to truly learn about the weather. We we the first tour company to offer Severe Weather Photography Tours, which are ideal if you are needing or wanting to add to you portfolio! Our lead guide, Chad Berryhill is a professional photographer himself and has seen over 25 tornadoes! Owner, Lanny Dean, is an award winning photographer who has also been nominated for an Emmy for his weather reporting and photography. Lanny has been offering tours part time since 1999 and finally went full time in 2008, taking thousands of people from across the world to see severe weather and tornadoes. He has personally seen/filmed 297 tornadoes and 11 major hurricanes to date. Jeff Smith has seen/filmed 38 tornadoes and Eric Duncan has seen/filmed over 70 tornadoes to date.

Watch the story that KAKE TV in Wichita, KS did on us in in 2010 below:

We are real, we have the experience,we have the knowledge and you simply not find another tour company that will spend more one on one quality time with you than we do!

Come see why we were voted Storm Chasers Of The Year in 2005 and 2007 and get ready for the adventure of a lifetime! To find out more or to book your tour please follow the link below or you can call us directly. All contact information is listed on our website:

www.extremechasetours.com

We look forward to helping you to live your dream!

DEADLY STORM SYSTEM POSSIBLE!!!!! 1/17/12

As can be seen in the graphics below, a powerful storm system is taking aim on the upper West coast at this time bringing with it very strong winds and major snow.

Current RUC sounding was so enlarged that the Hodo was off the chart! But as we can see below, winds from the basement (ground level) through 200mb) are very very strong with gusts over 80kts!

I looking at the at the surface winds via the RUC for the same time frame (real time) 12z we can see that the winds at the surface could be gusting well over-60-65kts! which is almost Hurricane force winds@ 74MPH at the surface!!! This is going to create a very dangerous situation for the folks in the upper northwest coast, especially people who live right along the coast!

Of course the snow depth looks to be in the 10-20inch range, depending on where you are located so blizzard like conditions will no doubt be a possibility as can be seen in the graphic below.

All in all, this storm system certainly could be deadly if people do not pay attention to the weather. I would encourage the folks living in this area to monitor the weather very close today!

STORM CHASING TOURS

Obviously have not posted in a while but with the latest round of severe weather and this years first Tornadoes, I thought it might be a good idea to post. This time of year we are slowly gearing up for the chase season by updating our website and booking tours. As of right now Extreme Chase Tours already has limited seating available on most of our tours so it looks like it might be a great year business wise....now lets hope and pray that mother nature will also be kind.

So if you are interested in going on a Storm Chasing Tour with us then I would encourage you to reserve your seats ASAP before we book full again this year. You can reserve your seats by going to our website at listed below:

http://www.extremechasetours.com/

As far as the severe weather.....currently we have ongoing severe in KY into TN as this system pushes east. Might be a good idea to keep an eye on the weather throughout the day if you live in the southeast.

Also, got a chance to go out and film our first "snow storm" here in Oklahoma. Not much of a storm so to speak but it was fun to play with. I have posted the video below. I shot this video with my Nikon D90 so the quality is not the best as this was the first time I actually have used it to shoot video with.

A Few Relfections...

After going through some of the images that myself and Chad shot during the tours, I started reflecting on this years season....what a wonderful year we had! The above picture of the Gass family who went on a storm chasing tour with us was taken in central Oklahoma, with a supercell in the background it brought back some great memories. We had a really good season and I can't thank the whole team enough! Hopefully 2011 will be as successfull!

Speaking of the tours, I will be posting the new schedule on the website soon and I suspect that just as years past, seats will fill up quickly so if you are interested in going on a Stormchasing Tour or storm chasing vacation please book your seat as soon as you can.

Chase Tour hit by tornado, South Dakota mess up, Josh Wurman, Sean Casey's ignorant ways and more!

Looks like I have not updated my blog in some time......no real excuses except that I have been very busy with the tours and trying to put family time in between chasing/tours. We have had one heck of a year already with filming somwhere around 20 tornadoes thus far and the tours have been good. Finally got a chance to meet Mr. Jason Boggs back on the 22 of April during the Allanreed TX event and what a great time we had! Thanks to him for shooting some of those great pics!
It has been a crazy season for some, most particularly those who almost got eaten by the tornadoes in south Dakota. Many of those chasers I know personally and would consider them friends, others I would not. But friends or not, I understand how they made the mistake because I have done the very same thing. Much respect should go out to those that were honest about the situation and what exactly happened. It no doubt would have been much easier to tell a different story.
Now on to other issues......

A chase tour took a direct hit from a tornado back on the 10th of May with some of their guests getting cut up and injured. Not much to say about it that I have not already said on Storm Track. feel free to look that thread up for more of my thoughts on the matter.

Josh Wurman, you remind me of that spoiled little kid who when they do not get their way, cry and piss and moan until they do. You complain about other chasers who chase for money or glory and not science but yet it was you who ran with Discovery the 3 years prior to the start of V2. I am more than aware of the contracts you held with Discovery and it would be a safe statement to say that you gained greatly financially off of those shows. In the past I held your opinion very highly but as of late you seem to do nothing more for me than make me want to bend you over and spank you as if you were a little child. Get over yourself already and grow up.

Sean Casey, your just ignorant. It is really simple actually....great video of you passing cars in a no passing zone, up hills with no way to tell if someone is coming or not and I really don't care if your "front" vehicle is in constant contact with you or not. One day you are going to get someone killed or yourself killed....I think old Uncle Chuck has a nice catch phrase for this.....Darwinism

Now thats off my chest....I fianlly got a chance to put some video together of the Hennessey tornado (see below) This was a very cool event for us becuase we were able to help one of our guests see his first tornado and becuase we didn't get caught up in any of the chaser convergence and stupid actions like I have mentioned above. Thanks to Mr. Chad Berryhill and Jill Gilardi for an amzing trip and running the tour...you guys did a heck of a job!
Looks like I have to make a trip to Boston early next week and I plan on taking the D90 and see what kind of pictures I can get. Should I get some nice ones I will try to post them here when I get back.

Classic "Hook" and blog update!

Below I have posted a couple level2 radar shots from last nights severe weather. Both images clearly show a monster supercell that was producing a tornado at the time the image was taken.
I had been updating the Extreme Chase Tours blog as well as our Facebook page most of the evening with radar grabs and info but when I saw this return I was simply amazed! For those that do not have their links updated please update them to inlcude the Extreme Chase Tours blog: http://www.extremechasetours.blogspot.com/
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Classic "Hook" from Tornadic Supercell 1-20-10


SRV level2 Tornado On the Ground! 0.4


And for those of you who might be interested in the doppler radar software I use, go check out StormLab at: www.interwarn.com StormLab was built by meteorologist and stormchaser, Evan Bookbinder and it is a wonderful program. There are so many more things you can do with it than GRlevel3. Don't get me wrong, GR3 is a great product and we use it on the tours as well as personally but I really like StormLab. I have been using since 2005 and to me, it has got to be one of the best doppler radar software packages out there!