Your chance of seeing a tornado really depends on the type of large-scale weather pattern that is in place during your particular tour, particularly during the early tours. It is impossible to forecast in advance which atmospheric pattern will be in place for your particular tour. There can be minor variations in these patterns that may allow part of the tour to see increased or decreased activity. To help improve your odds of seeing a tornado we picked our tour dates to correspond to the climatological peak of the Plains and Midwest tornado season. We have added new tours during the early summer which are six days in length for our friends with very limited vacation time.
Nobody is perfect.
Every single chaser makes mistakes and plenty of them. But after being out there for a few years, a tour operator should have amassed enough material worthy of displaying on his or her web site. We at Silver Lining Tours have pictures of all the supercell thunderstorms and tornadoes our tours intercepted within our extensive photo gallery . We tell you the truth about what we've seen during our tours and we have the photos to back-up our claims. Other tour companies can make fantastic claims about seeing tornadoes during their tours but cannot back these claims up with pictures or video.