- [Voiceover] Oh my God.

(upbeat band music)

- [Voiceover] It takes a certain craziness

for people to go out and pursue these things.

- [Voiceover] God, oh my God.

- The raw destruction of nature

in such a tight, enclosed area.

It's tragic, it's amazing, it's beautiful

and every one, for me,

holds that sense of awe and wonder.

Here it comes.

My name is Tony Laubach and I am a storm chaser

and meteorologist.

I basically make a living out in the field

selling imagery to news outlets, telling the story

in a visual sense, of what's happening with weather.

From March to June, I'm basically traveling

all over the country in search of severe weather,

literally could be putting tens of thousands

of miles on my car.

Sometimes 5000 miles a week.

Large tornado on the ground, west of Dodge City.

The storm we've been on is weakening pretty heavily

right now.

The storm coming out of the South

I think, has got my attention right now.

It's something I'm kinda watching.

(banjo music)

Kansas has always been my holy land.

The flatlands, the fields, the colors.

For a normal person, you drive from Kansas City

to Colorado and you gotta spend eight hours

driving through nothing.

To chasers, to people like me,

it's the most beautiful landscape of anything.

You can see tens if not hundreds of miles at a time

and watch these storm from a great distance.

It's something truly amazing.

There it is.

We as chasers never, ever want storms

to impact anybody in a negative way.

And unfortunately, in some instances, they do,

significantly.

They take lives and peoples homes and their livelihoods.

(piano music)

The lows are devastating but the highs

are amazing, because of the gratification,

the beauty, everything that you have put

the effort into is there.

When you get rewarded by nature for your efforts,

and you see this event in person, there's nothing

that compares to that.