By JAMES GIBBARD Staff Photographer on Apr 12, 2013, at 3:21 PM Updated on 4/14 at 11:24 AM
A storm over the Renaissance Hotel in Tulsa in April,2011.
I've been living in Oklahoma and working at the Tulsa World for almost thirteen years now, and in that time I've been on dozens of hair raising storm chases.
Being from England, this was new territory for me, we have storms and even once in a blue moon a small tornado but nothing on the scale of what we get here in the mid west United States.
One thing I have learned is you need lots of patience because sometimes storm chasing can mean spending hours and hours on the road and not seeing a single thing, just because all the elements are in place doesn't always mean that storms will happen.
Out of all the assignments I've covered at the Tulsa World, shooting and chasing storms has to be the most adrenaline inducing, exciting, scary, awe-inspiring things I've done, but I also realize the devastating impact having seen first hand the destruction left in their wake.
A tornado near Pawhuska in May 2003.
Severe storms near Chouteau in May 2011.
Severe storms near Chouteau in May 2011.
A severe storm north of Tulsa in August 2005.
Storm clouds east of downtown Tulsa in September 2009.
A severe rotating supercell storm near chandler, in May 2008.
Lightning from a severe storm near Enid in August 2005
A severe storm approaches Lawton in May 2005.
A tornado near Chouteau in April 2004.
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