Extreme chase Tours
- Established: 2005
- Tour guides: Lanny Dean, Laura Dean, Shane Adams, Bridget Geaughan, Jim Sellars, Chad Berryhill, JD Stewart
- E-mail: lannydean@extremechasetours.com
- Phone: (417) 294-4593
- Website: http://www.extremechasetours.com
- Average rating: 10 of 10 (3 reviews)
Regular tours 2010
| Name | Chase days | Price (USD) | Start date | End date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tumble weed tour #1 | 6 days | 2700 | 04/16/10 | 04/21/10 |
| Tumble weed tour #2 | 6 days | 2700 | 04/23/10 | 04/28/10 |
| MAYhem chase tour #1 | 6 days | 2700 | 05/01/10 | 05/06/10 |
| MAYhem chase tour #2 | 6 days | 2700 | 05/08/10 | 05/13/10 |
| MAYhem chase tour #3 | 6 days | 2700 | 05/15/10 | 05/20/10 |
| MAYhem chase tour #4 | 6 days | 2700 | 05/22/10 | 05/27/10 |
| Roaming chase tour #1 | 6 days | 2700 | 05/29/10 | 06/03/10 |
| Roaming chase tour #2 | 6 days | 2700 | 06/05/10 | 06/10/10 |
| Roaming chase tour #3 | 6 days | 2700 | 06/12/10 | 06/17/10 |
| Roaming chase tour #4 | 6 days | 2700 | 06/19/10 | 06/24/10 |
| Roaming chase tour #5 | 6 days | 2700 | 06/26/10 | 07/01/10 |
| Northern exposure chase tour #1 | 6 days | 3200 | 07/03/10 | 07/08/10 |
| Northern exposure chase tour #2 | 6 days | 3200 | 07/10/10 | 07/15/10 |
| Northern exposure chase tour #3 | 6 days | 3200 | 07/17/10 | 07/22/10 |
| Northern exposure chase tour #4 | 6 days | 3200 | 07/24/10 | 07/29/10 |
| Last chance chase tour #1 | 10 days | 3500 | 08/01/10 | 08/10/10 |
| Last chance chase tour #2 | 10 days | 3500 | 08/13/10 | 08/22/10 |
Offers personal tours: Yes
Please note that start date does not necessarily mean it is a chase day, typically it is the arrival day! Prices are likely to differ if you choose double-rooms and some tour operators offer rebates. For more information on these tours, please refer to the Extreme chase Tours website.
Extreme chase Tours description of themselves
Since our birth, we have taken great pride in offering a different and uniqe approach to stormchasing tours. The difference we offer is a true educational experience, we spend one on one time with each one of our guests teaching them not only how to storm chase and what stormchasing is really like but also how to read radar, storm structure, past events, basic photography, how to /"read/" a storm, basic meteorology etc.
We teach our customers everything they ever wanted to know about tornadoes, severe weather and stormchasing.
We also offer one on one private tours as well as full media tours, Follow Along Tours and our newest tour, The Remote Tour.
If someone is not interested in going on a full tour or maybe does not want to be around a group, the Remote Tours are the perfect answer!
All they need is a cell phone and our tour guides will guide them to the best possible location to see or film severe weather.
We are currently the first and only chase tour company to offer this exciting chance for everyone to take part in a tornado tour.
We are also the only company to offer tours based on our customers needs and wants. This includes booking tours based upon a customers vacation, personal or productive time. Although we offer a set schedule, we book our tours based on what our customers need!
We believe that quality not quantity is key to our customers successful tour.
Reviews of Extreme chase Tours
Decided to go on a vacation this year and after much reasearch we went storm chasing with Extreme Chase Tours. Their price was a little high compared to other tours but by the end of the tour it is well worth it. This was our first time to go out and we didnt really know what to expect. The tour started with the guys picking us up at the airport in Tulsa and then getting on the road as fast as we could. The urgency to get on the road was very exciting. On our way out of town we went over a few more basic rules and a basic chase class that my wife and I actually learned quite a bit from. There were 5 total people on the chase vacation with most of them being new just as we were so the anticipation was very exciting. We actually got to see a very large storm later in the day and I got some video of hail that we went through. It was all very exciting from the first day to the last!
These guys are very good at teaching and we learned what a super-cell was and all about storm structure. Every morning we would meet in the lobby of the hotel we were staying at and they would explain to us what the plans were for the day and where we were going to go. All the guides were very helpful in keeping us informed about what was going on around us and what we were doing. They even let us pick what motels were were going to stay at a few times.
The interaction between our tour giudes and all of us was wonderful. These guys are teachers and know how to do their job! We saw 1 tornado which was my wife's first and many storms and wall-clouds.
It was money well spent and we would like to go again with this outfit this next year. we did not experience any trouble from payment to being on the road with these guys. It was a wonderful vacation we want to go again!
Thank you for letting us give this review.
James and Abby Barnet
I took my first tour with Extreme Chase Tours in 2007 and have not stopped since!
Each year I spend 10 days on the tours and it is the most fun filled 10 days I have during a year I would definitely recommend Extreme Chase Tours as a great vacation.
Lanny, Eric, JD and Jim as well as the entire staff are really good at making storm chasing the experience of a lifetime. 10 out of 10 for me!
If you are looking for a private and professional stormchasing tour don't bother looking anywhere else. These guys are the real deal! I have been with other stormchasing tour companies and just the way these guys interacted with us was so much better. We filmed over 8 tornadoes with Extreme Chase Tours in a week! These guys are the best in our book and will go above and beyond what is asked!
The thing my wife and I liked the most was the way Lanny and his staff interacted with us. I have personally been with 3 other tours companies and by far, this one was the most educational and fun. They explained everything from what we were seeing to actually teaching us how to read their radar. We learned more in 6 days with Extreme chase tours than we did with going on tour with others for 10 days. It was truly a wonderful experience and one my wife and I plan on doing again in 2010!
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