Verne Carlson has been a storm chaser for 20 years and has witnessed and photographed over 80 tornadoes.   Verne is involved in the efforts of over 50 storm chasers and contributors to produce a DVD highlighting the most severe storm events of the year.  In 2006 the DVD was sold at various weather conferences and online with 100% of the profits going to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund and various other charities.  Verne was a video contributor to the April 10, 2005 chapter of the Storms of 2005 DVD.

Verne has been a regular video contributor to various weather conferences around the country including the National Storm Chasers Conventions and Severe Local Storms Conferences.  Verne's tornado video has been shown on The Weather Channel, Inside Edition, internationally in Japan and on KMGH Denver’s 7.  Verne's tornado video was shown at the IMAX theater in Denver at the Denver’s 7 Big Weather Show in Oct 2006.  Verne is skywarned trained.  He has the amateur radio call sign KB0ZCQ.  Every year Verne drives a little farther and chases a little longer outside of the traditional May to June severe weather season.  Verne has captured Tornadoes on video in almost every month of the year.  On the road he has mobile doppler radar on his laptop as well as cell phone connection to the latest weather data to find the strongest storms.  Verne shoots all his video with a Sony HDR-FX1 High Definition camera and uses an Olympus 8 mega-pixel camera to capture still images.  Verne designs/builds and deploys video probes into the paths of tornadoes and his most recent project is to fly a video equipped RC Aircraft into a tornado while broadcasting the video back to the ground as well as doing aerial surveys of tornado damage paths using remote cameras.  Verne’s passion for severe weather has transferred to his two son’s Michael and Eric who join him every year for a dedicated 4 weeks of storm chasing in the heartland of America as well as big days in the plains.
    

     You can check out his video and photographs at his web site {    http://www.stormchaserco.com/ } and you can also go to his storm chaser blog {      http://stormchaserco.blogspot.com/}