2019 Storm Chasing Tours Extreme Chase Tours

 If you have ever had an interest in going on an extreme vacation, why not go on one of our 2019 storm chasing tours?

Our Storm Chasing Tours are 6 to 10 days in length and we have a 90% tornado success rate. We also offer Severe Weather Photography Tours and we were the first to offer these types of tours in 1999. The Extreme Chase Tours team are highly experienced decorated meteorologists and real storm chasers who are truly severe weather experts. This experience and the intimate personal one on one attention that we give to each one of our storm chasing tours guests is what sets us apart from ALL other storm chasing tour companies. We pride ourselves on being THE MOST PERSONAL and THE MOST AFFORDABLE in the industry. You simply won't find another Tornado Tours company that offers our intimate and personal setting during your storm chasing vacation! ​Owner, Lanny Dean, started the very first personal Storm Chasing Vacations company in 1999 with a true belief that quality was much better than quantity. That motto has become our mission statement, and it's still how we run our Storm Chasing Tours to this day. 

We now have just a few limited open seats available for the 2019 season. If you are interested in going on the vacation of a lifetime, please check out our website extremechasetours.com for more information and storm chasing tour dates.
As always, unlike many other tour companies, we are always here for you should you have any questions or need anything. Please feel free to call us directly @ 918-859-0248 and we'd be happy to answer any questions or concerns that you might have.

-Lanny

Extreme Chase Tours Storm Chasing Tours Website

Been a little while since I have posted due to finishing up the 2018 storm chasing tours. Now on to the 2019 Storm Chasing Tours!

I have made a few changes to the website recently, changing some backend things and trying to “clean it up” up a little. Even that has proven difficult due to the ongoing weather we have had locally    Such as the Diggins, MO tornado which I documented and all the rain and severe weather.

That said, currently we have some very limited seating on many of our Storm Chasing Vacations Tours. And is usual, it looks as though Extreme Chase Tours will book all seats full soon. So if you are intersted in going on the most affordable Storm Chasing Tour and personal Tornado Tour in Tornado Alley, now is THE TIME TO RESERVE your seats.  I have posted a short video below of just a few of our guests from this season and just a few tornadoes and awe inspiring storm structure shots that we documented. It was a wonderful year and I’d like to personally that all of our tour guests for choosing us to make their storm chasing dreams come true. Some folks had never seen a tonado or even a real severe storm or supercell. To see their eyes light up and smiles on their faces was truly why I do what I do. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart!

As we now focus on getting back to our real jobs and real lives - some of us like me, are still immersed in the weather. For example, I shoot and report weather for some of the major networks. And as such, I am keeping my eye on the current situation with hurricane Lane which is now a CAT5 hurricane with sustained winds at around 160+ mph!

Yes this year has indeed been a strange year...we didn’t get the kind of numbers of tornadoes that we usually get in the continual US but we (Extreme Chase Tours) managed to see a tornado on every tour we had. Which is something I am proud of. But I wonder what this hurricane season into the fall and finally the winter season will bring? Questions to be seen for sure.

As far as 2019, the ossicaltions seem on par with having a decent year but Ma Nature plays by her own rules so who knows. What I do know is that we WILL be storm chasing and trying to document tornadoes for our guests no matter what.

We’d love to have you join us for one of our 2019 Storm Chasing Tours & Tornado Tours, so if you are intersted, please feel free to check out our website @ www.extremechasetours.com
Or feel free to give me a call & 918-859-0248. I am ALWAYS available to you either via email or directly by phone as well.

A small sample of just some of the video we shot this season below. I hope you enjoy it. Thanks so much -Lanny

https://youtu.be/FQKyKu3kazs

STORM CHASING TOURS $200 DISCOUNT!

Extreme Chase Tours is now offering a $200 discount on all of our open remaining
2018 Storm Chasing Tours! We currently have many tours that are booked full and very limited seating on our remaining open tours including:
Great Plains Tour 1
Great Plains Tour 2  and our Northern Plains Photography Tours.

If you've ever had an interest in going on the most personal and affordable vacation of a lifetime, filled with excitement, energy and education, then our Storm Chasing Adventure Tours are perfect for   you!

Our storm tours are smaller - with no more than 4 guests per vehicle! We do this so that we can truly spend one on one time with each one of our tour guests. Answering questions, teaching them how to read radar, the in's and out's of forecasting weather, and storm chasing safely. We truly are the most personal tour company in the business and we strive to please our guests.

With over 100 years combined storm chasing and meteorology experience and we are severe storm experts! This is the reason why we have a 90% tornado success rate and a 77% guest return rate.
Our motto since we started the business back in 1999 hasn't changed - we believe in quality more than quantity.

From checking each guests hotel room every evening to answering questions about the weather to giving our customers exactly what they have paid for in a fun and exciting way, we want you to have the best storm chase vacation possible!

If you have ever wanted to see a tornado or severe weather, we can certainly help! Feel free to email or call us directly @ 918-859-0248 for additional info.
Please feel free to check out our website for more information as well
extremechasetours.com

Hurry and book your Tonado Chasing Tour Vacation today!
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2018 Storm Chasing Tours - Hurry and book now!

Currently we have snow on the ground and we are coming out of a bitter cold temp spell so to speak. Makes it awful hard to think about severe weather and tornadoes, but we should have a chance for at least some locally severe storms on Sunday *if*the models are correct.

All of that said, many of my readers know that severe weather season is really just around the corner, and as such - so is the chase and storm chasing tour season. In fact, we have many of our tours that are already booked full or have very limited seating.

If you are interested in going on the most personal and affordable storm chasing tour and adventure vacation, now is the time to reserve your seat while we still have a few open seats. 2018 looks to be a good year and I suspect we will have all tours booked full very soon.

So while it may still technically be winter - now is the time to start thinking about booking your vacation on one of our tornado tours! You can find more info about us and what tours we currently still have open seats on at our website: www.extremechasetours.com Just click on the 2018 Storm Chasing Schedule page for additional info.

We will also continue to participate in the PACRITEX tornado research mission this year. We have many of the probes about finished as far as the electronic work, and it should prove to be a good year for that as well. To learn more about PACRITEX, feel fee to visit our website at www.PACRITEX.org for more info on our tornado research! Additional updates and video clips will be added soon.

So, while I know its still winter, now is the time to book your seat on one of storm chasing tours. If you have any questions you can also call us directly at 918-859-0248.

Hope everyone enjoys this little warm up we will have - it wont last long. But chase season is just right around the corner! For those that are on Twitter, you can follow me @LannyDean_ and for those on Facebook, You can follow and like Extreme Chase Tours  -Lanny

HOW TO BECOME A STORM CHASER

How To Become A Storm Chaser

How can I become a storm chaser? That is one of the most frequent questions that we get asked while out on a Storm Chasing Tour, or just out chasing storms in general. And while there are literally thousands of Storm Chasers out on the roads during the storm chasing season at any given time, many if not most started storm chasing or tornado chasing much in the same way. Generally it starts with an intense interest in weather or tornadoes, or even maybe a close call or interaction with severe weather at some point in their lives. Much the the same way owner, Lanny Dean had when he was 7 years old. Some folks then turn that fear into fascination, and then the fascination grows into a deep interest. In turn, the interest turns into knowledge and wanting to learn as much about severe weather, tornadoes and storm chasing. Some go on to college to get a degree or some tun to their local spotter networks and become trained storm spotters through the National Weather Service.These folks however, are not storm chasers, they are Storm Spotters for their local areas via their local NWS offices.      


HOW DO YOU GET STARTED IN STORM CHASING?

I saw my first tornado when I was 7 while on vacation with my family. The fear as described above turned into fascination and it just started then. When I really started storm chasing there weren't many people chasing at that time. This was in 1990 and storm chasing had not gone to the mainstream yet. The movie Twister was not even a concept and it would be another 6 years before it would come out. I had done it as a hobby and anytime a storm would be within 25 miles I would go chase it! I then started going on chases much further away. Each chase I went on was different as each tornado was as well. And eventually I wanted to share what I was seeing and experiencing -  the feelings, the sights, and the sounds of storm chasing. I wanted to share it with the world because to me, there was no better feeling in the world than storm chasing. So I started Extreme Chase Tours in 1999 per time. As they say, the rest is history. 


HOW DO I BECOME A STORM CHASER?

Unfortunately there are no real ways of becoming a storm chaser. There are no schools that offer storm chasing as we know it, and there are no real instruction manuals per se. There are a number of books on the market that may teach you the basic book knowledge of storm structure or what severe weather and storms may look like. One such book is called The Storm Chasing Handbook written by meteorologist and veteran storm chaser, Tim Vasquez. It has a ton of information and graphic context in it and it would be a good place to start for the novice. The direct link to The Storm Chasers Handbook from Amazon can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Chasing-Handbook-Tim-Vasquez/dp/0970684037     


BUT AREN'T THERE SOME KINDS OFSTORM CHASING CLASSES AVAILABLE?

There is no course work you can go and take to become a storm chaser. Most of it is learned by going out and chasing. The local National Weather Service in your area will provide Storm Spotter training sessions usually in the early spring before tornado and severe weather season starts.  These training sessions are usually just a basic presentation of storm spotting and structure and are in no means a way of explaining or learning to chase tornadoes or storm chasing. While these are wonderful events to attend, especially for the novice, there is no storm chasing instructional manual or knowledge given. These events are meant for Storm Spotting.   


SO HOW CAN I START STORM CHASING OR BECOME A STORM CHASER?

We obviously recommend going with a storm chasing and tornado tour company. One that has many years of storm chasing tours experience and has veteran guides who are willing to educate and teach you about storm structure, how to read radar, verbiage and the science behind it all. Your best bet is to go with a smaller storm chasing tour company as they can spend more one on one time with you. This means they are more personal and will be willing to answer any questions you might have and to help guide you to severe weather and tornadoes - all while explaining what is happening so you can understand.  Depending on your interest and desire to learn, we recommend going with a tour company for at east two years. This time frame will allow you to learn and will give you a very good idea if storm chasing is right for you, and if it is, you may want to go to school for meteorology or atmospheric sciences.


ARE THERE JOBS AS A STORM CHASER? 
The short answer is no. There are no formal jobs as a storm chaser. You might be able to join a field campaign study if you decide to go to college for meteorology, or with many years of hard work chasing, you might be able to chase for a local media outlet but the pay is nominal at best.


SO MY BEST BET IS TO GO WITH A STORM CHASING TOUR COMPANY OR WITH SOMEONE WHO IS EXPERIENCED?

YES! Storm chasing can be dangerous or even deadly to those who are untrained. Period. Never go chasing on your own, start with a tour company as outlined above and then transition from there if you would like. Don’t go chasing unless you have knowledge of storm structure and interaction. Currently there are about 12 legitimate storm chasing tours and tornado tours vacation companies in the industry right now. So choose wisely and make sure you do your homework about the tour company you decide to go with. How many years have they been chasing or how long have they been in business? What is their safety record? Do they take precautions to keep you safe at all times? Have hey seen tornadoes? Do they have REAL tornado pictures and videos on their website? Are they reputable? Insured? These are just a few questions to start with to help you get on your way to becoming a Storm Chaser.  

Storm Chasing Tours and Storm Chasing Vacations?

That's right, www.extremechasetours.com and www.stormchasingvacations.com are now one Storm Chasing and Tornado Chasing Tours company! Owned and operated by 26 year storm chasing veteran, Lanny Dean. For those that might be interested but don't know about Lanny or Extreme Chase Tours this blog post will hopefully shed some light on the companies and on Lanny.

Lanny Dean is a native Okie and lives just west of Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is the CEO, owner and operator of Extreme Chase Tours and Storm Chasing Vacations. He is also the lead Tour guide. Lanny is a 26 year storm chasing veteran and one of the best storm chasing tour guides in the business. You may have seen Lanny on the hit show "Tornado Hunters" that aired on TruTV. He has appeared on many various local and national networks including: The Weather Channel, Storm Stories, CNN, ABC, Good Morning America, TLC, The Discovery Channel, MSNBC, NBC, RealTV, Inside Edition, Fox News and many other media outlets as well as many local markets throughout the United States and around the world. Lanny is also a former member of The Outlaw Chasers and he has witnessed and filmed 516 tornadoes & 12 major hurricanes to date. Lanny was awarded "Storm Chaser Of The Year" in 2005 and 2007 for his coverage of the Greensburg, KS EF-5 tornado. He is the only current storm chasing tour owner/operator to hold that award. Lanny holds a B.S. in Electronic Telecommunications Engineering with some undergrad work in Atmospheric science. He spent many years working in the media receiving many awards for his photojournalism, photography and reporting, including an Emmy nomination for his weather reporting. Lanny has been working on a scientific project recording acoustic data in and around supercells and tornadoes and recently had an opportunity to work with the late Mr. Tim Samaras. He also worked for KJRH Channel 2 in Tulsa as their Severe Weather Reporter and Photographer, prior to KJRH, Lanny worked at KAKE-TV Channel 10 in Wichita, KS as their Severe Weather Reporter and Photographer. While working in the media Lanny also won several SPJ (Society Of Professional Journalist) awards as well as being recognized by the Oklahoma Association Of Broadcasters and The Kansas Association Of Broadcasters for his weather reporting and photography. In 2012 and 2013 Lanny and Extreme Chase Tours won Best Of Small Business Tulsa award in travel and tourism. Lanny is trained in meteorology, is a true Severe Storm Expert and is one of the best weather forecasters chasing today.

In 1999 Owner and 26 year tornado chasing tours veteran and tour operator, Lanny Dean, had a dream - he wanted to share his knowledge, love and passion of severe weather and tornadoes with the general public by offering private affordable storm chasing tours and weather adventure tours in tornado alley. Later that year the concept of giving true personal Storm & Tornado Chasing Tours was realized and he opened up the doors to Extreme Chase Tours. Since that time our concept hasn't changed. For the last 18 years Extreme Chase Tours has made it our mission statement and goal to give quality storm chasing tours and tornado tours versus quantity. A concept that we refuse to waiver from! We refuse to load up and cram two or three 15 seat passenger vans full with our clients like many other tour companies do - leaving little to no interaction with the Storm Tour Guide or driver. To us, this is counterproductive to all group tours as many of the folks in the rear of the van cannot communicate or even hear or see what is happening. We truly believe in quality VS quantity!  We were the first storm chasing tour company to offer a smaller quality tours, with personal one on one interaction and education with ALL of our storm chasing guests. In 2005 and 2007 owner, Lanny Dean, was the first storm chaser ever to receive the prestigious "Storm Chaser of the Year" award given by IPEXCEL. Extreme Chase Tours was the first to offer personal severe weather photography tours, and we were the first storm chasing tour company to win The Best Of Tulsa Small Business Award in Tours category in 2012 and 2013!  Many folks talk about being first - we WERE the first to offer these services. Our tornado chasing tours are designed with our guests and clients in mind, from the first interaction with us, to your departure day - we strive and work for our guests! Come see why Extreme Chase Tours has a 77% guest return rate and why we were voted storm chasers of the year! Get ready for the storm chasing tour adventure of a lifetime!

2017 Storm Chasing Tours

Storm Chasing Tour guests from this season, Lori, taking a "Tornado selfie" during the beginning stages of the  Bennington, KS/ Chapman, KS EF-4 Tornado. This tornado was on the ground for over 90 minutes and our chase tour chased it most of it's life cycle. If you are interested in possibly taking a "Tornado selfie" like this during our 2017 Storm Chasing Tours, head on over to our website and check our 2017 tour dates out. Oh and as far as the weather -  it's HOT.   

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Extreme Chase Tours 2017 schedule and storm chasing tours trailer

As is usual this time of year, our storm chasing tours are filling up fast! No doubt we will be booked full early again - I suspect we will have all 2017 seats full before the summer ends. So if you are interested in going on the most affordable and personal storm chasing tour, hurry and reserve your seat for the 2017 season now! Feel free to check out our chase tours dates on the website or here:


https://www.extremechasetours.com


Below is a small trailer of our tornado tours during the 2016 season to give you an idea of what you might experience during a storm chasing tour with Extreme Chase Tours. Hope everyone enjoys!








         

Extreme Chase Tours 2017 schedule and storm chasing tours trailer

As is usual this time of year, our storm chasing tours are filling up fast! No doubt we will be booked full early again - I suspect we will have all 2017 seats full before the summer ends. So if you are interested in going on the most affordable and personal storm chasing tour, hurry and reserve your seat for the 2017 season now! Feel free to check out our chase tours dates on the website or here:


www.extremechasetours.com


Below is a small trailer of our tornado tours during the 2016 season to give you an idea of what you might experience during a storm chasing tour with Extreme Chase Tours. Hope everyone enjoys!








         

Extreme Chase Tours 2014 Storm Chasing Tours Schedule

Interested in going on a real storm chasing tour/vacation? Interested in learning aboutt the weather, tornadoes and severe weather? Our 2014 storm chasing tours and tornado tours schedule in up and we have already booked a number of seats, If you are interested in going on a storm chasing adventure hurry and reserve your seat today before all seats book full!

Just follow the link below for more information but hurry before we book full!

www.extremechasetours.com

Storm Chasing Tours Photography Tours 2014 Extreme Chase Tours

We currently have our 2014 storm chasing tours and weather photography tours schedule up. If your interested in going on a severe weather photography tour hurry and reserve your seat today! You can view our schedule by clicking on the link below:
https://www.extremechasetours.com/Schedule.html

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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Storm Chasing Tours, Tornado Tours Adventure

Just fully completed the 2014 storm chasing tours schedule and seats are already filling fast. Hurry and reserve your seat today! https://www.extremechasetours.com/Schedule.html

And for those that have not already seen our 2013 storm chasing tours and tornado tours trailer you can check it our below:

La Crosse KS Tornado 5-25-12 Video

We have been so busy with the tours that I simply have not had time to update the blog with any news. From tornadoes in Kansas back on April 14, tornadoes in New Mexico to Tornadoes back in Kansas on 5-25-12.....we have been really busy!

Below is just a quick video of the tornado near La Crosse, KS from the 25Th that we intercepted and filmed. Eric did a wonderful job doing phoners with KAKE trying to help get the word out as I called DDC directly to let them know exactly what was going on. We were very worried that
La Crosse might take a direct hit...and they actually did from smaller EF-1 satellite tornado as can be seen in the graphic below:

When we first arrived on the south side of La Crosse, the police officer and county officials did not even know that there was indeed a tornado on the ground. They had heard about the tornado warning but "didn't really see any danger"....as we all know this can and does happen more than what the actual public knows. While I commend the local spotters for doing their job (after the fact) this video should be a clear testament to all local city and county officials as to what chasers can do in helping with the warning process.
I have taken much heat early this year from the situation that happened up in Dickinson County, I would encourage all those folks from Dickinson county and all the "media" that picked up the story to re-think the role that chasers can and do often play....even a those that run or own a storm chasing tour business. WE DO NOT MAKE A LIVING OFF OF THE DEMISE OF OTHERS....I certainly do not know one single chaser that makes an entire living off of weather as a whole to begin with. What we do is enjoy mother nature in all of her glory, good and bad. And when/if the time comes, we help where we can. Video below:

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!