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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 ...
Mike Hollingshead is an American professional storm chaser, photographer and videographer from Blair, Nebraska. [1] His work has appeared on the cover of National Geographic . [ 2 ] It was also featured in the films Take Shelter , The Fifth Estate and the series finale of Dexter .
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 ...
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.
Storm chasing usually involves getting close enough to a tornado or severe storm to record its size and wind speed with the appropriate equipment. Many storm chasers have a background in meteorology.
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 ...
Those inside Dominator 3 -- consisting of Brian Allen, Ryan Hall, Sierra Lindsey and Reed Timmer -- spent the night prior to the chase driving to Nebraska and sleeping in the vehicle.
Josh Morgerman was born in 1970 and grew up in Huntington, New York—part of suburban New York City. Living on Long Island, he developed an interest in meteorology at an early age; his mother attributes part of this interest to him seeing The Wizard of Oz when Morgerman was four.