Ron Stenz is a meteorology professor at the College of DuPage (weather.cod.edu) who leads multiple educationally focused storm chasing trips each spring and summer. His photography focuses on capturing the vivid storms of Tornado Alley for use in the classroom teaching about severe weather and forecasting. As an active tornado researcher using supercomputer simulations to try to better understand one of weather’s most powerful processes, Ron travels the plains each year in search of violent storms, because there is still no substitute for witnessing the true power of nature in person.