Storm chasing, photography and the open road

Storm Chasing, Extreme Weather and St. Louis Photography by Dan Robinson

By DAN ROBINSON
Storm Chaser/Photographer

Thanks for visiting! I'm a year-round storm chaser and photographer covering St. Louis, the Midwest, the Great Plains and beyond. I've spent weeks on the road for the last 26 years, driving thousands of miles in all types of weather, and plan to do it for as long as I'm able. My goal is to capture nature's dramatic side, and in doing so, provide visitors to this site with educational information and exciting photography/video about severe storms and extreme weather. I specialize in capturing imagery and video of tornadoes, lightning, St. Louis, MO and the Gateway Arch, storms and all types of extreme weather. I also sell fine art prints of my work via my photo gallery.

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Quick Links to Popular Pages and Recent Events

December Illinois tornado outbreak - A tornado outbreak affects central Illinois on December 1, 2018.

Hurricane Michael intercept - Experiencing Category 5 Hurricane Michael in Panama City, Florida.

Incredible tornadoes at Dodge City, Kansas - The chase of a lifetime on May 24, 2016 with multiple highly photogenic tornadoes in southwestern Kansas.

90-Minute violent EF4 tornado in Kansas - Up close and personal with a long-lived significant tornado through Bennington, Solomon and Abilene, Kansas.

Chicago Triple Lightning Strike to Skyscrapers

Chicago Triple Skyscraper Lightning Strike - Lightning strikes all three of Chicago's tallest buildings at the same time - Sears (Willis) Tower, Trump Tower and John Hancock Center!

Lightning strikes the Gateway Arch - Lightning hits the Arch in St. Louis twice during afternoon storms on August 27, 2014!

San Andreas Fault Tour - A photo tour covering the major-earthquake-primed segment of the fault in southern California.

2017 Total Solar Eclipse - The total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 viewed from southern Illinois.

The El Reno, OK tornado of May 31, 2013 - A detailed account of the EF-5 El Reno, Oklahoma tornado of May 31, 2013, including video, images and other data.

Mythbusting: Can lightning strike the same place twice

Can lightning strike the same place twice? - Busting this myth with some help from the Mythbusters themselves!

Winter lightning and thundersnow - All about lightning and severe storms in the winter, even during snow!

Storm Chaser Traffic and Behavior: Factual Information - A resource of evidence, including 79 full-day timelapse videos, showing how storm chaser traffic in the Great Plains isn't the problem it is often made out to be.

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25 Years of Storm Chasing: 2017 was my 25th year of storm chasing. See my favorite images from each of those years! Read More >

20 Years on the Web: This site turned 20 years old in October of 2015! Here's a history of the site and a look at its old designs throughout the past 2 decades. Read More >

Dan's Extreme Weather Photo Galleries >

Tornado Photo Gallery

Lightning Photo Gallery

St. Louis Photo Gallery

Storm Chasing Logs >

I have all of my storm chasing imagery, video and and accounts organized by year and by category in my chase logs section. You can also browse images in the photo gallery section and videos in the stock footage section of the site. My video collection can also be viewed on the Youtube channel.

Dan's Extreme Weather Educational Library >

The longest-running section of this site is the Extreme Weather Educational Library section, containing numerous articles about lightning, storms, severe weather and related phenomena.

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Dan's Latest Blog Post

Earthquake chase trip: Ridgecrest, California - Days 1-4

I am currently in the middle of my first "earthquake chase" expedition in Ridgecrest, California. So far, the trip has been exciting and rewarding, with not only some spectatular fault surface rupture sights and photo opportunities, but my first earthquake experience: a magnitude 4.5 quake on Tuesday the 16th!