2001 Storm Chasing & Photography Accounts, Photos and Videos

By DAN ROBINSON

Editor/Photographer

From Dan: How the crime of copyright infringement took $1 million from me and shut down my operation.

In September of 2025, my work is generating the most income it ever has in my career. Yet, I'm being forced to shut down my successul operation, against my will, due to one cause alone: 95% of that revenue is being stolen by piracy and copyright infringement. I've lost more than $1 million to copyright infringement in the last 15 years, and it's finally brought an end to my professional storm chasing operation. Do not be misled by the lies of infringers, anti-copyright activists and organized piracy cartels. This page is a detailed, evidenced account of my battle I had to undertake to just barely stay in business, and eventually could not overcome. It's a problem faced by all of my colleagues and most other creators in the field.

2001 was my most memorable year in many respects, storm adventures being possibly the biggest one of them. This was the first year I made a chase to the Great Plains in the spring, starting what would become an annual tradition, and prodiving the impetus for an eventual move away from West Virginia 9 years later.

View logs by year:

2001 Notable Storms

October 24, 2001
Storm Chasing & Photography a large late-season severe weather outbreak in the midwest and Ohio Valley.

August 27, 2001
Lightning near Goldtown, WV.

August 9, 2001
Twilight lightning chase in the Hurricane, WV area.

July 8, 2001
Lightning during the disasterous flash flooding event in WV.

June 12, 2001
Vivid, close lightning near Sandyville, WV.

Storm Chasing Expedition 2001
A weeklong trip to the Great Plains for peak severe weather season.

April 9, 2001
Lightning show near Medina, WV.

All 2001 Storm Logs (21)

March 2001:

3/13: Thunderstorms WV

April 2001:
4/6: Thunderstorms WV
4/8: Lightning chase WV
4/9: Lightning chase WV
4/10: Lightning chase WV

May 2001:
5/15: Lightning chase WV
5/16: Lightning chase WV
5/17: Lightning chase WV
5/26: Thunderstorms KY
5/27: Severe storms OK,KS
5/28: Tornado bust KS
5/29: Supercell TX,OK
5/30: Severe storms OK

June 2001:
6/12: Lightning chase WV
6/29: Lightning chase WV

July 2001:
7/8: Lightning chase WV
7/8: Flood damage WV

August 2001:
8/9: Lightning chase WV
8/27: Lightning chase WV

October 2001:
10/24: Severe storms WV,OH,IN

November 2001:
11/6: Aurora borealis WV
11/6: Leonid meteors WV

Catch of the Year:

May 29 - Oklahoma City, OK: One of many discharges in a staggering barrage of tower lightning during the passage of a line of severe storms. [ Read more about this event ]