Lightning strikes without warning, tornadoes form rapidly, hail kills and floods drown. Chasing is exciting but risky, you need to know what you are doing. If you don't we suggest you join a tour group or chase with someone more experienced.

Storm chasers like to get close to some of natures most violent weather. They seek out Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Cyclones, Waterspouts and Thunderstorms as they search for the ultimate storm. This site is run by top British storm chaser and television professional Alister Chapman. Although a UK based site this storm chasing domain aims to bring you all the very latest severe and extreme weather news from around the world. You can also find out how you too could get started as a storm chaser and learn about the guide, tour and media services Alister and his team of internationally respected storm chasers and weather experts have to offer. To date Alister has intercepted 58 confirmed tornadoes and hurricanes, escorted journalists and reporters from 11 TV channels and 7 newspapers and magazines on 100% successful tornado and extreme weather intercepts. Alister is now running fully escorted tornado chasing tours as well as photography and video tours to the Arizona Monsoon, The Northern Lights in Norway as well as Iceland and other exciting destinations. Click Here for more details of his nature and the elements expeditions.

Shooting the Extreme with Alister Chapman from Ingenious TV on Vimeo.

Alister's 2009 tornado chasing season turned out to be a good one when he captured a violent tornado in 3D HD. The tornado was near Lamont in Oklahoma and was on the ground for around 20 minutes. The long tornado life and fact that it was slow moving gave Alister time to film it in very high quality HD. Later in the year he will be releasing a spectacular 3D documentary about his travels to the Arctic, Iceland, Tornado Alley and Arizona Monsoon. Click Here to see a 3D stereoscopic video preview.

Click here to find out what to do if you see a tornado.

Our severe weather stock footage library is constantly expanding. Every year we add more and more dramatic video footage of some of the most violent weather on the planet. In 2004 we started shooting with High Definition video cameras. Now just about everything we shoot is HD. We use the very latest broadcast quality (XDCAM HD)cameras and we can now offer HD video clips of Tornadoes, Lightning, Giant Hail and Hurricanes. To view some sample clips please click here to visit Ingenious TV, who look after our stock footage. Royalty Free weather Clips can be purchased on-line here. Or click here to watch a tornado and hail video, just one of our many hundreds of HD weather clips. Remember our footage is shot by television professionals using broadcast quality equipment.

Northern Lights Arctic Expedition.

As part of The Elemental Project we spent 4 days in the mountains in Northern Norway. We got some incredible footage as our trip coincided with a geomagnetic storm. A full update will follow soon, but to some up we spent 3 nights in temperatures down to -24c under crystal clear skies filming horizon to horizon arcs of green, blue and red lights. Amazing! This was an amazing experience and I suggest that everyone should try to see the Aurora Borealis at some time in their life!

Every year we shoot many hours of severe weather stock footage. Please click on the links below to see some sample clips. For stock footage sales click here. You can also buy Royalty Free Stock clips online here.

Tornado and Hail Video Clip Harper Tornado Webb City Tornado Springer Tornado

Hurricane Katrina Video Hurricane Rita Video

Anvil Crawler Lightning Close Lightning Strike

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Escorted Tours and Expeditions for Photographers and Videographers.

Do you fancy having a go at taking incredible lightning photos or video? Would you like to film a tornado or shoot the Northern Lights? Well with Alister's help now you can. Throughout the year Alister runs a range of tours and expeditions tailored to Photographers and videographers. These educational expeditions are holidays to remember, with the pictures to prove it! In the Spring there are trips to tornado Alley, the summer is lightning season in Arizona and the winter is Northern Lights time with expeditions to Arctic Norway and Iceland. Click Here for further details.

Click here to visit Alister Chapman's weather blog.

Elemental Project.