2015 Tour Guests take a group photo with the Dominator 3 SRV Extreme Tornado Tours began in 2008 when our founder Reed Timmer of Discovery Channel’s television show “Storm Chasers” also known for being the most prolific storm chaser on the planet, created a way for storm enthusiasts from all over the world to join in on these storm chasing experiences firsthand. Since our founding Extreme Tornado Tours has grown to be one of the leading tour companies in our industry, and certainly the most …
Why You Should Chase With Us
Any tour company worth their salt will have a team of dedicated professional tour guides that are well versed in not only storm chasing, but the operations of directing and keeping a group of storm hungry guests safe, properly lodged and fed while being successful in finding the right storms. Each one of our team members is a professional storm chaser, not only when operating with us on tour, but at all times on their own time, year around. Our team is the new guard of storm chasing, originally …
Tour Safety
Safety is our number one priority here at Extreme Tornado Tours, period. While our name might insinuate that we do things a little different than most, we can assure you that our chasing practices are in line with the safest of touring companies out there. With experience in storm chasing comes better safety procedures and our guides are some of the best storm chasers in the world having logged literally hundreds of tornado sightings between them with over 50 years combined experience. Extreme …
The 2019 Storm Chasing Season
2019 was an excellent touring season for us here at Extreme Tornado Tours and included some of the more memorable storm chasing we have done to date, including a close-range intercept of an EF3 monster tornado in the Texas Panhandle, to a pancake stacked mothership supercell of the ages in western Kansas. Overall, we chased down over 20 tornadoes and countless supercells, navigated our way near intense hail cores and lightning barrages all while keeping our guests safe and on the right …