We have some sad news to pass along. This evening we learned of the passing of Andy Gabrielson. Andy was an avid and professional storm chaser. He died when a car traveling the wrong way hit him head on in [...]
A pair of severe weather watches really didn’t amount to much as marginally severe thunderstorms affected just a small portion of Iowa on Tuesday. The storms struck primarily in central Iowa during the afternoon hours, producing a small number of [...]
The National Weather Service has confirmed that a thunderstorm early Monday morning, in fact, produced a small tornado. The storm produced destroyed trees and damaged a building or two. Most of the damage was caused by straight line winds. But [...]
We needed a day like this. After 8”-10” of rain fell over parts of Iowa over a 48 hour period, an overall dry day gave area rivers, streams and ditches a chance to lower water levels. There is still river [...]
Below is a magazine article published in this month’s Iowa Farm Bureau’s Family Living Magazine. With a subscription base of 50,000, members will get to read about our work here on Iowa Storm Chasing. I want to thank everyone at [...]
Our Ben McMillan is spending this storm chase season working with Twistex, the team led by Tim Samaras and featured on the Discovery Channel’s “Storm Chasers.” Over the past two weeks, Ben and Twistex have captured a number of tornadoes, [...]
At this hour, it’s still a developing severe weather event in progress, but Iowans might have witnessed the birth of a derecho. A complex of showers and thunderstorms took shape quickly this morning, forming a bowing segment of thunderstorms that [...]
It was not an easy chase by any means. with such a large area under the gun for a potential tornado outbreak, it was hard to nail down exactly where to go. We decided to sit tight in Tama before [...]
Storm chaser Ben McMillan is spending a few weeks this spring chasing with Tim Samaras’ Twistex team. You have likely seen the team featured on Discovery Channel’s program “Storm Chasers.” So far, Ben has seen a lot of storms but [...]
Iowa Storm Chasing’s Ben McMillan is working with Twistex this chase season. For the next few weeks, he’ll be part of a team led by Tim Samaras, featured on Discovery Channel’s “Storm Chasers” program. Ben’s first week on the road [...]
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