Nick began his interest in storms at an early age traveling the high plains and prairies in Canada for summer trips with his parents. He founded his passion for severe weather watching twin waterspouts with his Grandfather at the age of nine. Nick decided to pursue storm chasing as a full-time passion in 2012 in the southwest deserts of the U.S. He soon began putting all of his efforts into being able to chase storms in both the high prairies and plains, from Canada to Texas. Nick has completed numerous weather-related training programs and classes and was a past storm chase partner of Dr. Reed Timmer. He is Red Cross certified across the board for first aid.  Still photography is his priority when chasing while aiding in the warning process when possible. Currently, Nick has created a buzz about his photographic work and is now based in Norman Oklahoma as a nine-year veteran tour director and guide of Extreme Tornado Tours with over 180 tornado sightings under his belt. Nick is proud to be a part of the worlds most exciting storm chasing tour company!

Alec Scholten was born and raised in a small town along the Illinois/Wisconsin border. While the weather wasn’t quite as turbulent as Oklahoma, Alec was struck with an obsession for severe weather and tornadoes starting at the age of 3. Whether it was drawing endless tornado pictures in grade school, or watching dozens of movies and documentaries, the composition and science behind tornadoes utterly fascinated him. At age 12, Alec went on his first true storm chase with a tour company and became hooked. Over the last 17 years, Alec has traveled hundreds of thousands of miles in pursuit of his passion; documenting over 225 tornadoes and 6 hurricanes across dozens of states along the way. He is no stranger to guiding tours either, having worked as a tornado tour guide since 2014, including multiple years guiding for ETT. In addition to storm chasing, Alec has a background in Law Enforcement and is professionally trained in First Aid, CPR and disaster response. When he’s not chasing, you can find him cheering on his favorite sports teams: The Cubs, Packers and Bucks. Alec is thrilled and grateful to be a continued facet of the Extreme Tornado Tours Team and can’t wait to share his stories and experiences with all of the incredible guests, new and old!

At the age of three, Trey’s fascination for severe weather blossomed after watching a 48 Hours documentary on the devastating Moore, Oklahoma, F5 tornado of May 3, 1999. Soon after, he was performing mock severe weather coverage in front of his parents, dressing up as Twister’s Bill Paxton for Halloween, and hooked on studying supercells and tornadoes. As a native Arizonan, Trey earned his chasing stripes during the annual summer monsoon season, during which he captured numerous dust storms, incredible lightning, and breathtaking storm structure beginning in 2011. Trey took his first trip to the Great Plains in May 2015 and received a warm welcome from a stationary supercell that produced multiple photogenic tornadoes (his first) near Canadian, TX. Since then, he has chased and documented scores of supercells, tornadoes, and hurricanes from northern Minnesota to the Alabama Gulf Coast and everywhere in between. In pursuit of a career in meteorology, Trey earned a B.S. degree in Geography (with emphasis in Meteorology/Climatology) from Arizona State University in 2018 and a M.S. degree in Meteorology from the University of Oklahoma in 2021. Here, he was fortunate enough to work alongside tornado science pioneer Dr. Howie Bluestein as a driver/operator of the RaXPol mobile radar. Trey enjoys spreading the knowledge he has gained during his scholastic and storm chasing careers with others and is excited to get up close and personal to the biggest, baddest storms on the planet with ETT guests this year!

Max has had a lifelong passion for severe weather, by kindergarten, the Tornado Video Classics VHS tapes became more watched than cartoons and every birthday consisted of dozens of new weather books. Growing up in Colorado allowed for a wide variety of weather to be experienced, from blizzards to hail storms and occasionally landspout tornadoes, it was a perfect environment to drive the ever-growing passion. Max went on his first storm chasing trip to the plains in 2007 and has returned every year since to document the most intense weather mother nature has to offer. He also enjoys creating short documentaries along the way and has developed a successful YouTube following over the years. With nearly 250 tornadoes and 10 hurricanes under his belt, Max can’t be more thrilled to bring his years of experience to the ETT family this chase season.