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Storm Chasing with Tempest Tours 2024
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Storm Chasing with Tempest Tours 2024

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Storm Chasing 2024

This year, my chasing was split into two once again. In April, I chased the solar eclipse with Tempest Tours and I returned in June for Tour 6 and 7.

After watching some coverage of the severe weather on the Plains in May, I was wondering what would be left for us in June. Overall, it was an average year with some good structure, some long chases, great lightning but only one tornado of note. Our off days included places I had not yet visited like Two Buttes in Colorado and the Badlands in South Dakota. Continue reading “Storm Chasing with Tempest Tours 2024” →

2024 Texas Bluebonnet and Solar Eclipse Tour
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2024 Texas Bluebonnet and Solar Eclipse Tour

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In 2017, my search for an eclipse tour introduced me to Tempest Tours as they offered a week long eclipse/storm chasing tour.

We had to chase after clear skies but found them in Alliance, Nebraska, and had an incredible show.

In 2024, they offered another week long tour call the Texas Bluebonnet and Solar Eclipse Tour for the total solar eclipse based out of Dallas. As with 2017, we had to chase for clear skies, this time from Texas to Arkansas.

Again, we were treated to an amazing show. Continue reading “2024 Texas Bluebonnet and Solar Eclipse Tour” →

Storm Chasing 2023
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Storm Chasing 2023

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Storm Chasing 2023

For 2023, I decided to split my storm chasing tours, trying out a southern tour in late April and returning in June for the northern plains.

Interestingly enough, out of the total of twenty-five chase days, nineteen were centred primarily in the southern states. Continue reading “Storm Chasing 2023” →

Storm Chasing 2022
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Storm Chasing 2022

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Storm Chasing with Tempest Tours

30 May to 25 June 2022

Storm chasing is, in relative terms, a new kind of tourism. Television shows like In Search Of… (1978) and movies like Twister (1996) introduced professional storm chasing to the wider public, and over the last twenty years or so, a number of tour companies have sprung up offering people the chance to join in with the chase. Continue reading “Storm Chasing 2022” →

Storm Chasing with Tempest Tours
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Storm Chasing with Tempest Tours

lesleyanneLeave a comment

Storm chasing is, in relative terms, a new kind of tourism. Television shows like In Search Of… (1978) and movies like Twister (1996) introduced professional storm chasing to the wider public, and over the last twenty years or so, a number of tour companies have sprung up offering people the chance to join in with the chase. Continue reading “Storm Chasing with Tempest Tours” →