If you just stumbled in here, make yourself at home. Email me any time. This section of my website contains the chase reports, pictures and other observations I've made on my chases through the Southern Plains and South Florida. While you may not want to assume some of the risks involved in actually chasing storms yourself, the stormchaser community offers a dozens of sites like mine with great pictures and descriptions that make you feel like you're in the bear's cage, too. Take my word for it, it's much safer and inexpensive to stay at home.
Thunderstorms are an amazing natural phenomena.
They serve a vital purpose in our planet's atmosphere as they redistribute heat and moisture, and with a bang. There are many types of thunderstorms, some more dangerous than others, and the web offers a good selection of reading material on different types of storms and why they form in different atmospheric conditions. Stormchasers must understand the severe thunderstorm and its environment to be in the right place at the right time. This involves hours of forecasting, including hand analysis of current conditions on paper and examination of computer-generated weather models to forecast what the atmosphere will do in the future. It takes patient study, but you don't have to be a professional meteorologist to chase storms safely and successfully.