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An early version of the Tornado Intercept Vehicle (TIV 1). The SRV "Dominator", featured in the Discovery Channel series, Storm Chasers.. Storm Chasers was filmed each year in the central United States (an area known as Tornado Alley due to the frequency and severity of tornadoes occurring there) primarily during late spring and early summer, the time of the most frequent tornado activity ...
Storm Chaser Vince Waelti positioned himself in the perfect spot to watch one twister race across an open field in Leslie, Georgia, a small rural town in the southern part of the state about a ...
Sean Cameron Casey (born December 28, 1967) is an American IMAX filmmaker and storm chaser who appeared in the Discovery Channel reality television series Storm Chasers. [1] Casey created an IMAX film called Tornado Alley about chasing tornadoes and had to build the Tornado Intercept Vehicle (TIV) and the Tornado Intercept Vehicle 2 (TIV2) to ...
Dominator 1 was modified from a 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe that was used during the 2008 storm chasing season and debuted in the 2009 chase season. The modifications included adding bulletproof sheet metal and transparent Lexan armor to protect against flying debris near tornadoes, and an external roll cage and racing-style safety harnesses in case of a vehicle roll. [3]
AccuWeather Storm Chaser Aaron Rigsby was in western Texas on Thursday, June 1, when thunderstorms erupted over the small town of O'Donnell, located about 40 miles south of Lubbock.
The device showed a 1.54 inches of mercury (53.23 mb) pressure drop and recovery in just 1 minute, including a 0.68 of an inch of mercury (23 mb) pressure change in less than a second.
[1] Storm chasing is broadly defined as the deliberate pursuit of any severe weather phenomenon, regardless of motive, but most commonly for curiosity, adventure, scientific investigation, or for news or media coverage. [2] A person who chases storms is known as a storm chaser (or "chaser" for short).
AccuWeather Meteorologist and Storm Chaser Tony Laubach was live on the AccuWeather Network when he intercepted a tornado near Yuma, Colorado, located about 120 miles northeast of Denver.