Cackalacky Chaser

06/20/2026

Back home! Canes Parade tomorrow!! Let’s go Canes!!!

06/18/2026

This was a funnel cloud spotted Just south of Mount Auburn, Illinois yesterday around 5pm. Overall, a fun chase— I forgot how fast moving 60 mph @ supercells are! The best way I’ve always chased them is to either stay ahead of them or stay out of their way; and just drop down to the next supercell after the other one passes.

06/17/2026

10x 3-min timelapse of the second shelf along with an obligatory lightning strike freeze frame rolling through central Illinois, but this time near Williamsville, IL.

06/17/2026

06/17/2026

What a fun chase yesterday! Tuesday, June 16th, 2026 took Cackalacky Chaser and I eastward across central Indiana largely targeting a single supercell that developed a bit ahead of a main broken line of storms along an approaching cold front. We chased it across most of the state. It became the first tornado-warned cell of the day in the region near Walton, IN, which is when we captured this scene. 😱 This was one of the absolute coolest wall clouds I have ever intercepted at close range! Very low to the ground and constantly evolving with strong visual rotation, and we believe it came VERY close to producing a tornado a couple times before seemingly occluding up the back side of the storm and dissipating as a new wall cloud formed on the southwest side. We made multiple real-time reports to the National Weather Service around this time updating them on the storm. The same storm also went on to give us a funnel cloud, some more structure, and a brilliant rainbow. More photos yet to review! US National Weather Service Northern Indiana

06/17/2026

The first wave of a multi round day is happening now with a stout shelf cloud passing through the Lincoln area. It’s gonna be a crazy day for Illinois and Indiana among other places today. Stay weather aware.

06/17/2026

Yesterday’s pregame Chase and Indiana was a blast with awesome structure complete with a rotating wall cloud and EF4 rainbow!

06/17/2026

If you know anybody in this red shaded area, get in touch with them and tell them to take the warnings serious today. No panic, just weather aware.

06/16/2026

06/16/2026

A video of KCTornadoChaser and me discovering The OTUS Project’s lost research drone is at the end of this post. As a drone pilot, I was geeked to get a picture of my drone next to theirs. As a storm chaser, you wouldn’t have had to ask me twice to help find it—the data and video they collect are incredibly important for understanding and learning new things about tornadoes.