Jim Reed: Storm Chaser - Digital Journalist

Weather photographer Jim Reed's unique and long-term project shot over 15 years, "Storm Chaser: A Photographer's Journey," provides 175 stunning images of America's changing climate and record-setting storms, including hurricanes and tornadoes.	A severe thunderstorm with striated shelf cloud strikes Butler County, Kansas, at sunset on July 25, 1995.	Fair weather cumulus clouds hover over a freshly made highway in eastern Washington on Oct. 6, 1995.
Members of S.T.E.P.S. (Severe Thunderstorm Electrification and Precipitation Study) launch a weather balloon into a tornadic supercell thunderstorm in northwest Kansas on May 29, 2000.	A winter storm with blizzard-like conditions strikes eastern Tennessee on Jan. 10, 1997.	Trees tumble as an ice storm strikes northern Georgia on Jan. 9, 1997.
Flooding occurs in Malibu, California, in February 1998.	Downtown Clarksville, Tennessee, lies in ruins following an F-3 twister in January 1999.	A significant hoar frost event envelops Sedgwick County, Kansas, yielding a true winter wonderland on Dec. 28, 2000.
Hoarfrost-covered trees overlook circular tire tracks in the snow in Wichita, Kansas, on Dec. 28, 2000.	The symptoms of global warming were clear in the Lake Powell, Utah, area as early as the spring of 1995.	A tornadic thunderstorm with wall cloud strikes western Oklahoma on April 17, 1995.
Victims of disasters frequently create therapeutically-made messages following a storm. On May 3, 1999, Moore, Oklahoma, was devastated by an F-5 tornado that struck with record-setting winds in excess of 300 mph.	An F-5 tornado with winds around 300 mph wrapped this steel sink around a tree branch in Moore, Oklahoma, on May 3, 1999.	This storm shelter saved the lives of a Moore, Oklahoma, family during a violent twister on May 3, 1999. It was the first time in recorded history that an F-5 tornado hit the Oklahoma City metro area.
Windblown snow and frigid temperatures impact a golf course in Wichita, Kansas on March 2, 2002.	An Kansas state trooper throws his car into reverse to escape the path of a tornado near Pretty Prairie, Kansas, on April 11, 2002. It was the first Kansas twister of the season.	A dust storm roars across a drought-stricken farm field in western Kansas on May 11, 2004.
An electrical storm erupts over downtown Wichita, Kansas, on July 20, 2000.	A mesocyclone rotates over northeast Kansas on June 5, 1996. The storm produced baseball-size hailstones and prompted a tornado warning.	A vibrant double rainbow shimmers on the backside of a tornadic thunderstorm in Cowley County, Kansas, on June 8, 1998.
A severe thunderstorm develops over Kiowa County, Kansas, on June 13, 2000.	A lone lightning bolt strikes the ground beneath an isolated supercell thunderstorm at sunset near Medicine Lodge, Kansas, on June 5, 2004.	Double trouble: Simultaneous tornadoes threaten Turner County, South Dakota, on June 24, 2003. It was the largest single-day outbreak of tornadoes in South Dakota's history.
An isolated supercell thunderstorm threatens south-central Kansas on June 5, 2004. The flying saucer-shaped severe storm produced baseball-size hailstones.	Mammatus clouds develop on the edge of a severe thunderstorm in northern Oklahoma on June 16, 2005.	Hurricane Katrina's historic storm surge roars across U.S. Route 90 in Gulfport, Mississippi, on Aug. 29, 2005.
Hurricane videographer Mike Theiss clutches a road sign for balance during Hurricane Katrina in Gulfport, Mississippi, on Aug. 29, 2005. Theiss was attempting to reach shelter when a strong gust forced him to stop.	Thunderstorms develop near Roosevelt, Utah, on Sept. 11, 1994.	Stormy weather motivated these monarch butterflies to seek refuge on a sunflower in Scott County, Kansas, on Sept. 16, 1996.
Jim Reed during Hurricane Frances on September 4, 2004.	Storm chaser Tim Samaras monitors radar from inside his chase vehicle on June 8, 2005.	Jim Reed documenting a storm in eastern Colorado on May 31, 2006.
Research meteorologist Jon Davies uses a laptop computer inside his chase vehicle to monitor a developing storm in the Central Plains on May 20, 2004.