Storm Chaser Aaron Rigsby
I am a professional storm chaser of 16 years who grew up in the small town of Milford Center, Ohio. Over the years I realized my passion for weather and grew it into the career that it is today. I have had footage featured all over the world including ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News along with Netflix, Jennifer Hudson show and much more.
On this channel, I'll take you up close and personal to the most violent storms and phenomena's this planet has to offer.
Storm Chaser Aaron Rigsby
Now that all the weather craziness is over, I wanted to give everyone a life update. For those who didn’t see on my story last week I was in a terrible snowboarding accident. I was coming down one of the back bowls at Snowmass, totally in my comfort zone. Ripping through powder feeling alive. When all of a sudden I drifted towards a rock hidden by snow and before I could slow down and turn, it was too late and I smashed into the rock feet first. Right after the abrupt stop I heard something break, followed my immediate pain in my lower back and got buried chest deep in snow. I quickly moved my toes while trying not to pass out from the shock because my friends were just over the hump I was on and couldn’t hear me yelling for help. I somehow managed to unbury myself and moved my legs to know I wasn’t paralyzed with no idea if I’d injury myself further and paralyze myself. Somehow I was able to stand up, throw my board and hobble to my friends to call for help.
By the time I got down by the incredible efforts by ski patrol I was trembling from being so cold and taken by ambulance to the ER where I discovered I compression fractured my L2 in my back. If not for the fast acting effort of ski patrol and one of my best friends mikepodesto I cringe to think what could have happened. While coming down I kept fighting to stay conscious and still scared of being paralyzed Overall, I had the best case scenario. Less than 50% collapse and no surgery and cleared to drive and fly. I had tears standing up for the first time after it happened so thankful to be still walking. With lots of help from nice folks aboard my plane and TSA and my amazing friend @MaxOlsonChasing getting my bag, 4 days later I was live on AccuWeather covering the Northeast blizzard. You can knock a passionate guy down but you can’t knock him out and a massive shout out to AccuWeather for being so understanding and not forcing me out but going on my own free will because this is what I do. Hopefully in 8-12 weeks I can begin the process of getting confidence to get back on my board next season. For those who reached out thank you all so much.
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Wow! The start of 2024 I only had 8,000 subscribers. I decided to take my documentaries a lot more seriously in 2024 and endless amount of grinding through the craziness of the season I started to get some fast momentum on my channel. Beginning of 2025 I had a bullish goal to hit 50k by the years end. It’s October and I just hit that goal!! I still have at least 3 more documentaries to make this year and the road to 100k begins. Thank you all so much for watching and spreading the kind words 🙏
7 months ago | [YT] | 128
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If you haven't heard by now, its been a wild week in the weather world! The Enderlin, North Dakota that I documented on June 20th of this year has been upgraded to an EF5! This breaks the 12 year drought we have been in since the last official EF5 tornado that devastated Moore, Oklahoma. If you haven't, I have a documentary on this whole event as I chased this storm from start to finish. Check out what its like to chase an EF5 tornado at night!
https://youtu.be/HbsVPKd2wMs
7 months ago | [YT] | 129
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NEW DOCUMENTARY DROP! Sit down, grab some popcorn and enjoy the terrifying night that occurred on June 20th, 2025 as multiple, powerful tornadoes tore across North Dakota. Tragically claiming the lives of several residents and shortly after a Derecho of historic proportion would cause widespread damage across Minnesota and North Dakota.
https://youtu.be/HbsVPKd2wMs
9 months ago | [YT] | 131
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Just wanted to take a moment and 1) welcome all the new Subscribers and 2) say thank you all so much for the amount of love you've shown my most recent documentary on the Gary, SD tornadoes. Its truly been something else and has motivated me more than ever before to keep pumping out the docs. I'm hoping to have my experience with the Spiritwood, North Dakota tornadoes out by the first week of August. Until then, continue to enjoy the latest doc and inch closer and closer to my goal of 50k subs by the end of the year!
10 months ago | [YT] | 98
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Taking a second to welcome all of my new Subscribers on here! Its crazy how much this channel has erupted over the last year (only had 8k last year)! Chase season is finally starting to slow down a bit and I'm going to be hard at work creating a bunch of new content y'all should be super excited for including the most recent Gary, South Dakota tornadoes! I have a huge goal to hit 50k by the end of the year and would LOVE if y'all would share this channel and help spread the word. I'm going to be heading to the coast after the 4th to cover this upcoming Tropical Depression and hope to release Gary by July 10th. So be ready and enjoy the Holiday!
10 months ago | [YT] | 76
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The amount of incredible feedback on my latest documentary on Hurricane Helene has been nothing short of amazing and humbling. Truly, thank you all so much for watching! For those that missed it, you won't regret watching. This is the most proud I've ever been with a video.
https://youtu.be/00wT8ZpO8QU
1 year ago | [YT] | 85
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At the airport and soon to be en-route for Major Hurricane Helene into Florida. Gonna try out live streaming this time. Footage to come!
1 year ago | [YT] | 47
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Taking a minute to say thank you all so much for 12,000 subscribers! It's not much to many, but starting the year at 7k and the astronomical growth across all platforms this year has been nothing short of humbling. There's been so much positive feedback with my recent documentaries that it's got me motivated more than ever before to keep pumping them out. From the bottom of my heart. Thank you all so much!
1 year ago | [YT] | 55
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Dipped out of my trip to Europe early and on route to Florida for Idalia. See you soon Florida.
2 years ago | [YT] | 23
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