Nickerson, Kansas tornado: July 13, 2015 — Bryce Kintigh

Published on July 13, 2015

This impromptu chase was spurred by Beth. Seeing cumulonimbus clouds billowing to the north of Wichita, we jumped in the car to go investigate.

Severe storm ingesting smoke near Nickerson, Kansas.

The storm was producing large hail and lightning, the latter of which caused a fire. The storm looked especially ominous because of the smoke getting sucked into the updraft of the supercell.

Shortly after, it developed a southwest moving tornado.

Bryce Kintigh

Bryce has been chasing storms since 2003. Growing up on a farm in North Central Kansas, weather has always played a big role in his life. In 2018, Bryce finished his Certificate of Broadcast Meteorology from Mississippi State University. His favorite weather memory would have to be seeing a large wedge tornado with a satellite tornado in 2007. When Bryce isn’t on the road chasing storms, he enjoys spending time with friends, cheering on the Kansas State Wildcats, and traveling. He hopes to visit every National Weather Service radar site in the nation, visiting over 135 thus far. Bryce is often heard on KAKE-TV, tracking storms all across Kansas and the Midwest.

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