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This DVD showcases storm chase video shot in high quality SVHS format between 1993 and 1995.

The program begins with video segments from the Hooker, Oklahoma tornado and Colton, South Dakota mile-wide "wedge" tornado. 

It features storm chases from the historic Spring of 1995 where tornado and hail "roars" were almost as common as a west Texas sunset. The Verifications of the Origin of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment (VORTEX) was underway during this period and the scientists chose an exceptional tornado period in west Texas history. Brief clips of my tornado video have been featured in many national and international documentaries. These are the full-length versions. 

The Friona, Dimmitt, Kellerville and Allison chases include dramatic radio communications between VORTEX  chase teams, University of Oklahoma Doppler On Wheels (DOW) Radar, and NOAA P-3 research aircraft. 

The June 2, 1995 Friona, Texas tornado touched down as a large, multiple-vortex tornado that developed into a mile-wide "wedge." In this segment, we escaped the tornado's path before it caused extensive damage and a few injuries along the south and east sides of Friona. 

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The June 2, 1995 Dimmitt, Texas tornado is widely accepted as the best scientifically documented tornado of all-time since it was surrounded by VORTEX research storm chase crews. This full-length version includes the entire life cycle of the tornado from touchdown, to mature cone, through final rope stage. The tornado crossed 0.7 miles (about 1 km) to our west, stripping asphalt from Texas Highway 86 and destroyed a home on the east edge of Dimmitt.

The roar of the violent (F5) Kellerville, Texas tornado from June 8, 1995 was clearly audible where my chase partners and I shot it from the south.

The 1.3 mile (2 km) wide Allison, Texas tornado from June 8, 1995 is one of the largest ever captured on video and produced a deafening roar. It was also surrounded by VORTEX chase crews. Early in its life cycle, the tornado was measured moving north at 60 mph, but It became stationary during the last last 20 minutes of its life a few miles northwest of Allison. This segment was taken from the southwest side of Allison about 1/3rd of a mile from the outer edge of the vortex. 

The Farmer's Valley-Vernon, Texas tornado from June 9, 1995 is one of the closest and most startling multi-vortex tornadoes I have ever encountered. The parent supercell had already produced 15 - 20 weak, short-lived, "dust-whirl" tornadoes. But we were unprepared when one of the "dust whirl" tornadoes formed at close range then suddenly became a large, multi-vortex tornado and tracked right for us! 

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The program contains two compelling, original music videos which showcase my best 35mm images from this period as well as incredible time lapse video of supercells, tornadoes, microbursts, mammatus clouds, etc.

Running Time: 62 minutes 
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