I am a Storm Chaser and mostly chase for fun as a hobby. I also work and have worked in the past with media outlets while out chasing, providing live real-time video feeds for use on air. I submit severe and non severe reports to the National Weather Service.

I have been interested in weather almost my entire life. My Grandpa was the City of Lansing emergency manager, and severe weather has always been apart of my fathers life. My father passed this on to me by taking me storm chasing when I was a kid. Of course, storm chasing when I was a kid was much different than it is now. We mostly drove around the Lansing area in some heavy thunderstorms, in a spotting role. In 2005, I told my dad I was going to get my Amateur Radio license and attend SKYWARN training. He decided to go with me to SKYWARN training and we both passed our Technician class licenses on the same day a few weeks later.

My first 'real' chase was on October 18, 2007 when I went to west central Indiana to chase a supercell which would later drop the Williamston, MI EF-2 Tornado less than 15 miles from my house. I would consider my storm chasing 'career' to have started on 10/18/2007.

In 2008 I started travelling many miles to intercept storms. I chased into Arkansas on February 5th, the Super Tuesday tornado outbreak. I intercepted the 122-mile long Tornado near the end of it's life near Highland, AR. I also developed software in 2008 to bring live streaming storm chase video to the masses.

I bagged my first daytime, fully condensed tornado in Turrell, Arkansas on May 2nd. That tornado was rated an EF-3 and devastated the town of Earle, Arkansas. To date, I have seen 12 Tornadoes.

I stepped it up a notch in 2009, driving everywhere to storm chase. I've chased in almost all states considered in or near Tornado Alley including Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, South Dakota, New Mexico, Indiana, Ohio and of course Michigan. I also joined the TornadoVideos.net video streaming team in 2009. TVN and Weather Decision Technologies partnered to create the iMap streaming application which can be found on the Live Chase Cam page.

I was featured on WOOD TV 8 in Grand Rapids in June 2009 after my intercept of the Wyoming Tornado. I have done phoners or been featured with TV stations in Lansing, Michigan, Grand Rapids, Michigan, Jonesboro, Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas, Wichita, Kansas, and The Weather Channel.

Storm Chasing Content
Live ChaseCam - Live Streaming Video from my Dash while Storm Chasing
Past Storm Chases - Chase Accounts from my past Storm Chases
Storm Chasing Videos - My Youtube page with Storm Chasing Videos
Storm Chasing Pictures - Still Images captured during storm chasers
Storm Chase Equipment - Equipment I use storm chasing
Storm Chasing Statistics - Statistics of my past chase seasons