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Looking back at the 2024 storm chase season
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9/5/2024
AccuWeather Meteorologist and Storm Chaser Tony Laubach looks back on a season when he saw 20 tornadoes and drove his half-a-million career chasing mile enroute to a 20,000-mile season.
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copy copy i got another tornado another tornado on the ground from massive twisters to blizzard hailers
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to intense lightning 2024 had a little bit of everything my season kicked off in late march
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on a short trip to southwest kansas a prequel to what was going to be a very busy april and
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it was nebraska and iowa that we kept coming back to day after day of severe storms built up to the
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tornado event of the year as we've seen several vortices start to really spin around this thing
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april 26th a day that already lives in infamy for tornadoes wrote another chapter in the day's saga
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with one of the biggest outbreaks of the year our chase started early in eastern nebraska as we
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intercepted not one but two violent tornadoes north of karni this was just the start as we
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crossed into iowa where we intercepted this long track tornado north of omaha it spawned this
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satellite twister that narrowly missed us as we pursued the larger tornado in total we saw eight
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tornadoes on this outbreak day nearly a month later i was back in iowa for another major outbreak
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tracking three tornadoes live on the acuweather network south of des moines between the two days
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i saw over a dozen tornadoes with another eight tornadoes sprinkled in through the rest of the
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season but storm chasing is not all about tornadoes and for me it was a hail of a season now the hail
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is getting big now the hell's getting big all right we're coming in i was literally ankle deep
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in the second costliest hailstorm in denver's history in late may hail up to tennis ball size
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piled up nearly a foot deep in the northeast part of the city i took cover underneath the tree that
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gave its life so that my glass may live i kept busy into june chasing close to home as the season wound
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down and on june 21st i hit a major mileage milestone and we're there half a million storm
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chasing miles it took 22 years two months and two days to hit that mark i look forward to the back
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half of the million in the years to come for acuweather i'm meteorologist tony lawback
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