Weather "struck" me at a very young age when our home was grazed by a passing tornado in the late 80's. Since that time, many systems including the Superstorm of '93 have left me in awe of mother nature. For these reasons, I decided that weather and storm chasing was the career path that I wanted to take.

In 2004, Talladega County EMA director Nelson Bates gave me the opportunity to lead my local area in storm spotting, weather education, and damage assessment. While partnering with Emergency Management Officials, I also chased for several media outlets in the Birmingham market area and provided reports to the National Weather Service in Birmingham. This allowed me to gain many contacts across the country with various media outlets. Since gaining this knowledge, I have provided severe storm video to FOX, MSNBC, and local ABC/FOX/NBC/CBS affiliates. Live phoners have become a normal part of chasing in recent months as well.

I am now a student at Mississippi State University in pursuit of my broadcast meteorology degree. I have three wonderful children and a lovely wife that make life great everyday. I also own and maintain the Alabama Storm Tracker chase team. Over the last two years with our success, we have acquired sponsorships with Autonet Mobile, Cyfre/Maximum Signal, Spotternetwork.org, and Weather4Powerpoint.

2008 proved to be a breakthrough year in the field of storm chasing. I filmed several supercells, tornadoes, hurricanes, and snow storms. Not only did we film it, but we sent the video back live. On 5/2/08, our team caught the Earle, Arkansas tornado from the developmental stages. KAIT Chief Meteorologist Ryan Vaughan watched this live as it was occurring and declared a tornado emergency for the city of Earle. The National Weather Service in Memphis also witnessed these events and enhanced the wording in there statements. We were commended for the spectacular footage on that day.

Successful intercepts included:

2/5/08 Super Tuesday Outbreak (East Arkansas tornado/wall cloud)
4/11/08 supercells in Alabama (4 hours of streaming live on ABC 33/40 TV in Birmingham)
5/2/08 Earle, Arkansas EF-3 (KAIT Ryan Vaughan & NWS Memphis used video)
8/23/08 - 8/25/08 Tropical Storm Fay Landfall (WMBB-Panama City, FL) and Alabama induced supercells
9/2/08 Hurricane Gustav from Gulfport, Mississippi (AP, CBS, ABC National)
9/12/08 - 9/13/08 Hurricane Ike Lanfall, Damage, and Surge (SS Live Feed)
12/8/08 Mississippi Tornado Event (WJTV, FOX-40, and The Weather Channel)
12/11/08 Mississippi/Alabama Snow Event from Hamilton, Alabama