We're at the beginning of severe weather season... where you all know... anything can happen in a short amount of time.
 Tonight... we feature two of the newest members of our Action Weather team.

 In recent years, storm chasers have become an essential part of severe weather coverage.

 On the front lines of the most dangerous severe storms, chasers put their lives at risk to bring you reports that can help save lives. 
 For two local chasers, hilly terrain, loss of data, lack of roads, and an erratic moving tornado put them right where they didn't want to be… in the eye of the storm. 

 Some call them crazy, some call them heroes.

 CNN's Larry King called them "stormchasers that go above and beyond."

 If there's a storm, it's a pretty good bet that Kenny Allen and Kory Hartman are in the neighborhood. 
From tornadoes to hail and brilliant lightning… For them, the thrill of the chase and the awesome beauty of mother nature has turned into a passion for saving lives.  

 Allen tells Action News, "In 1998 after the Spencer tornado Kory and I decided that we needed to improve the severe warning process.  At any time there is a severe thunderstorm or tornado there needs to be a better warning process for the greater public so they can take shelter and that's when Severe Studio's was born. "
 
 Kory and Kenny's storm video has been seen around the world, featured on the Weather Channel, The Discovery Channel and just about any other cable network that would ever do a show on the weather.  

 Kory Hartman and Kenny Allen are two of the most recognized names in the worldwide storm chasing community… but even with all their experience, I don't think anything could have prepared them for what happened on June 12th last Summer.    

 Kory Hartman remembers the night well. "We were storm chasing between Little Sioux and Moorhead, Iowa and we ended up getting in a bad situation where we had no road options so we ended up getting to an intersection where we had 2 choices - one was to go NE the other SW so I made the decision to go right and we ended up driving right into the tornado and it overtook our car....There is an urban myth that tornadoes do not go over hilly terrain, but that is not true.  This tornado cut a path right thru the Missouri river valley and when we went back the next day you could actually see whole chunks of forest completely flattened.  The thing that people didn't realize from that day was that the boy scouts had warning.  Storm chasers did their job.  The national weather service did their job and the camp ranger and all the boy scouts did their job.  They had the boy scouts in shelter.  The problem was they did not have adequate shelter." 

 Four Boy Scouts died at the Little Sioux Boy Scout Camp that day.  
 Over the next months, Hartman and Allen raised 37-hundred dollars through their website SevereStudios.com.  
 That money is being used to help rebuild the camp.  
 This year, Allen and Hartman and the Severe Studios associate chasers are part of our KSFY Action Weather team. 
 What does that mean for you? 
 Well, the next time there is severe weather, you have the most experienced people in the country bringing you the information you need to keep your family, your property, and you safe.