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Tornado Chasers is an American documentary series that premiered on September 19, 2012, on TVNweather.com. [1] The program follows Reed Timmer and his team of storm chasers as they attempt to intercept tornadoes in Tornado Alley in the United States and Canada.
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 ...
The severe weather event was premiered as an episode as part of Storm Chasers, titled "Tornado Rampage 2011". [31] In the same year, Timmer built the heavily-armored Dominator 2, modifying it from a GMC Yukon XL. [32] [33] Following declining ratings, Storm Chasers, the television series that Timmer starred in, was cancelled in 2012. [34]
It was the first known instance of a storm chaser or a meteorologist killed by a tornado. [26] Even before it was known that Samaras, his son, and Young had been killed, the event led many to question storm-chasing tactics, particularly in close proximity to tornadoes. [27]
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 film inside a tornado. [2] Tornado Alley was released worldwide on March 18, 2011. [3] Casey has been named one of the 50 best minds of 2008 by Discover Magazine. [4]
Extreme Meteorologist Reed Timmer has been chasing tornadoes for decades - witnessing firsthand some of the most dangerous twisters in recent memory. Since capturing his first footage of a tornado ...
The first person to gain public recognition as a storm chaser was David Hoadley (born 1938), who began chasing North Dakota storms in 1956, systematically using data from area weather offices and airports. He is widely considered the pioneer storm chaser [3] and was the founder and first editor of Storm Track magazine.
The fourth season of Storm Chasers premiered Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 10 pm Eastern, and documents teams of storm chasers during the spring and summer of 2010. This season continues to feature the three groups from the previous season: The TVN team, led by Reed Timmer, and rejoined by driver Joel Taylor, who had temporarily left the team ...