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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 ...
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.
A growing number of experienced storm chasers advocate the adoption of a code of ethics in storm chasing featuring safety, courtesy, and objectivity as the backbone. [28] [58] Storm chasing is a highly visible recreational activity (which is also associated with science) that is vulnerable to sensationalist media promotion. [59]
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.
The tornado was extremely well-documented by storm chasers. A video of the tornado posted to YouTube by storm chaser Scott Peake gained over 1.7 million views, [7] and another video of the tornado during its lifetime posted by the Storm Chasing Channel went viral. [8] Storm chaser Ben Holcomb also took a video of the tornado from the beginning ...
The award-winning documentary film about storm chasing, produced and directed by storm chaser and filmmaker Martin Lisius, follows Doswell and Moller as they intercept a tornado in the small town of Pampa, Texas on June 8, 1995. Doswell captured dramatic, up-close footage of the tornado which appears in the film.
The tornado killed four storm chasers (three professional and one amateur), the first known deaths in the history of storm chasing. [5] Although the tornado remained over mostly open terrain, dozens of storm chasers unaware of its immense size and erratic movement were caught off-guard.
David K. Hoadley (born 1938) is an American pioneer of storm chasing and the first widely recognized storm chaser, as well as the founder and former editor of Storm Track magazine. He is also a sketch artist and photographer.