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The Tornado Intercept Vehicle 1 (TIV 1) is a heavily modified 1997 Ford F-Series F-Super Duty cab & chassis truck used as a storm chasing platform and built by Sean Casey. [1] This heavily armored vehicle can drive into a weak to relatively strong tornado [citation needed] to film it and take measurements. Work began on the TIV in 2002 and took ...
The Dominator fore is a stock vehicle, unlike Timmer's other storm-chasing vehicles, which are heavily fortified trucks. Timmer has said that the Forester is a good choice for certain situations due to its smaller size and maneuverability. This allows him to navigate tight spaces and avoid debris during storms.
Several other storm chasers, including The Weather Channel's Mike Bettes, were also caught in the same sub-vortex but escaped with only minor injuries. Bettes and the Tornado Hunt crew were lifted up by the wedge tornado in their sport utility vehicle. That storm threw them two hundred yards off U.S. Route 81. The SUV was destroyed afterward.
Storm chaser Mike Leandro was already chasing the storm in a different vehicle and provided Timmer and his team with ground visuals, telling Timmer to "get on the west side of the storm." The ...
Celebrity storm chaser Reed Timmer: Chasing attracts crowds Reed Timmer has room for his three Dominator storm chasing vehicles in his new space. "We heard about that little ruckus out there ...
Why storm chaser Reed Timmer's tornado-proof chase vehicles are stored in a climate-controlled warehouse Reed Timmer stores his three Dominator storm chasing vehicles in his new space in Oklahoma.
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 ...
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 ...