Brian Barnes recently entered a photograph of a supercell that occurred in Nebraska on June 16, 2011 into Week 14 of National Geographic’s “Travelers Photo Contest.” The photo was one of 20 picked as an “Editor’s Favorite” for Week 14.

24 previously unseen photographs of the tsunami that struck Japan’s northern coast on March 11, 2011. The following images are in no particular order of the events.

As most know by now, I do a lot of volunteer work in the ocean activism community when I’m not storm chasing in Tornado Alley. I was in Otsuchi Japan (Iwate Prefecture) on March 11th, 2011 monitoring the slaughter of Dall’s porpoises for Ric O’Barry’s Save Japan Dolphins and standing just a few feet from the water on a man made pier in the middle of Otsuchi harbor when the M9.0 earthquake hit.

We received several request for this print to be made into a poster – so here it is. No text – just a large 20 x 30 in print of this incredible tornado event!

I’ve read a lot of papers, blogs and books about tornado events and I’m giving this book an “A+,” it is simply the best piece of literally work I’ve read in regard to this specific tornado event and one of the best that I’ve read about any tornado event.

Brand new item in our StormChase.com Zazzle store – Campo Tornado and double rainbow on a mousepad. It looks great on your desk! They’re great for starting conversations as well.

New video featuring some of my more recent photographs set to “Anytown USA” by Travis Kidd.

I uploaded some video of the Campo Colorado tornado event to our YouTube channel yesterday, enjoy. I do apologize for the language, but people do tend to get excited in the back of the storm chasing tour van. This was shot by a customer (Scott M) which I’m thankful for because since I’m in the front, and in this case driving, I missed a lot of it myself – so it’s great to be able to see the tornado from our customer’s perspective.

I’ve decided to add a few new photos to the image gallery. Just as a shameless plug – I do sell the photos with a variety of frames and printing options, if you see something you’d like to hang on you wall – contact me!

Our new storm chasing tour schedule for 2011 is available at StormTours.com.

The preliminary data for Saturday’s tornado that hit Yazoo City, Mississippi is now available. No doubt this thing was a monster.

Long track tornadoes, large hail and high winds are expected today across portions of the deep south. This may be one of those events that catches many people off guard – those are the types of events that end up with a death toll.

A major weather system entered the plains today which resulted in a widespread tornado outbreak throughout the Texas Panhandle, western Kansas and Colorado.

Gov. Jim Doyle has proclaimed April 19-23, 2010 as Tornado and Severe Weather Awareness Week in Wisconsin.

Lloyd Colston, Emergency Management Director for the City of Altus captured these shots of a tornado near Hammon, OK today with his Blackberry.