2027 Tour Dates
Tour Will Be Scheduled During An Active Period, To Be Determined
Tour Length: Varies, depending on length of the severe weather threat, typically 3-4 days
2027 Tour Price – $500 per day
Did you know that the North American tornado season often extends through early summer, with a wide swath of territory including the U.S. northern Plains, Canadian Prairies and upper Midwest experiencing a significant amount of severe thunderstorm activity? As the midlatitude jet stream weakens and retreats during latter June into July in the typical year, moderate to occasionally strong westerly winds aloft are sustained across Canada and the northern tier of the USA. Beneath this, warm and humid air often makes forays deep into the U.S. northern Plains and Canada, with low-level moisture (the “fuel” for thunderstorms) often augmented over areas rich with crops and abundant spring rains/snows. The southerly winds bearing the low-level moisture, superposed by the mid and upper-level westerlies associated with the retreating and weakening jet stream, yields a highly sheared and buoyant atmosphere – one supportive of supercell thunderstorms – on several days during the month. In fact, some of the most spectacular tornadoes the North American prairies have to offer can occur in early-mid summer.
For this reason, we are pleased to offer “The Great North Tornado Hunt On Call Tours”!
With extreme variability in the weather pattern during July it is difficult to set locked in dates for a scheduled tour. Instead of taking the risk of chasing during periods of “ridged out” weather, where sunny skies and hot conditions are the rule, we’ve decided to run on call tours during the entire month! We only want you to be out when the forecast is for significant severe weather to occur!!! Severe thunderstorms still occur in July, just not as frequent as in the spring months. If you have flexibility during the month, this type of tour would be great for you! The entire month of July will be reserved for on call tours! If you want to guarantee yourself a spot on one of them we will accept a VIP $200 deposit and then you would be guaranteed a seat on any of the July on call tours. The deposit would be deducted from the final cost of the tour, which is $500 per day, hotel included. We will keep an email list of those signed up and notify everyone approx. 2-3 days before any July on call tour would be conducted so you can make your flight arrangements to Denver, CO. That is about all you can give for advanced notification for this tour due to model variability.
Bottom line? We don’t want you to chase with us during July if the atmosphere is not going to cooperate and give us sunny, storm free skies. We want you to come out and enjoy the “atmospheric adventure of a lifetime ©” when there will be storms to chase!
