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A wall cloud hanging beneath a dark storm base over open farmland near Pontiac, Illinois.

Storm chasing · Severe weather coverage · United States

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TwistedWX follows severe weather across the country — documenting storms from the field and streaming the chase as it happens.

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Offline— chase status, view the live pageLatest chaseIllinois / Indiana targetIllinois — Indiana · June 18, 2026

Pontiac, Illinois — March 10, 2026

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LIVE: Storm Chase - Illinois/Indiana Target - Possible TORNADO OutbreakJun 18, 2026
A wide, striated storm base settling over green West Tennessee farmland.

Clarksburg, Tennessee — April 2, 2025

What TwistedWX does

Forecast.Drive.Document.

A chase day is a forecast, a long drive and a decision made in the last twenty minutes. This is what comes out of it.

Chasing

Targets get picked the night before and revised all morning, then it is a drive — sometimes across three states — to be in the right place when a storm goes up.

Live coverage

When the setup justifies it, the chase goes out live on YouTube. No studio and no script: the road, the radar and whatever is happening out the window.

Documenting

Photography and video from the field, and an archive of what each chase day actually produced rather than only the days that went well.

Photography

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  • A broad, ragged wall cloud hanging beneath a dark storm base over bare farm ground, photographed from a roadside in north-central Illinois.

    Pontiac, IllinoisMarch 10, 2026

  • Vertical framing of a wall cloud and rain-free base above open farmland, shot over the hood of the chase vehicle.

    Pontiac, IllinoisMarch 10, 2026

  • A low, banded storm base filling the sky above a utility pole and power lines.

    Pontiac, IllinoisMarch 10, 2026

  • The TwistedWX chase vehicle parked on a grass shoulder with a lowering storm base and rain shaft behind it.

    Pontiac, IllinoisMarch 10, 2026

  • A lowering and rain shaft ahead of traffic on a divided highway at the edge of town.

    Pontiac, IllinoisMarch 10, 2026

  • A country road running straight toward a rain core, with clearing sky to the west.

    Pontiac, IllinoisMarch 10, 2026

  • A wall cloud beyond a treeline, framed by power lines crossing the foreground.

    Clarksburg, TennesseeApril 2, 2025

  • A wide, striated storm base settling over green West Tennessee farmland.

    Clarksburg, TennesseeApril 2, 2025

The TwistedWX chase vehicle parked on a grass shoulder with a lowering storm base behind it.

Pontiac, Illinois — March 10, 2026

The chaser

One person,one vehicle,a lot of driving

Taylor WelkaStorm chaser · Founder of TwistedWX

TwistedWX is Taylor Welka. He picks the target the night before, drives to it, and points a camera at whatever the atmosphere does once he gets there.

Some days that is close to home in Ohio. Other days it is not — in May 2026 it meant leaving a day early for Nebraska, then four straight chase days across the central Plains.

Most of it goes out live. A warning on a map is an abstraction until somebody is standing underneath the storm telling you what it is actually doing. Whatever survives the drive home ends up in the archive here.

Based in
Canal Fulton, Ohio
Chases
Nebraska · Kansas · Oklahoma · Illinois · Indiana · Ohio
Publishing since
2025

Featured partner

Storm chasing,turned intoopen science

WxEye is a community-driven storm research mission. It live-streams and reports severe weather, flies weather balloons and deploys probes into storms, streaming the data back as it is collected.

  • Live severe weather reporting from the field
  • Weather balloons and probes flown into storms
  • Observations published openly as they are collected
How TwistedWX works with WxEyeVisit wxeye.org
RISE-26 balloon launchSouthwest of Bloomington, Illinois · April 2026

TwistedWX recorded part of a WxEye / RISE-26 launch operation and the data collection effort as the balloon was prepared and sent aloft. Archive entry

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Every chase, on the record

Chase days with the footage and photographs they produced, newest first.

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Chasing is a small world, and most of what gets learned in it gets shared. These are the people and projects TwistedWX works alongside.

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Two cloud-to-ground lightning strikes landing behind a treeline at dusk.

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