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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]
The hood of Reed Timmer's Dominator 2, a vehicle designed for intercepting tornadoes, was torn off by lines that were down from the tornado. [42] Storm chaser Dan Robinson received injuries after being enveloped within the outskirts of the tornadic circulation.
On June 5, 2009, Timmer filmed inside a tornado near LaGrange, Wyoming in Dominator 1, also recording a wind speed of 155.2 miles per hour (249.8 km/h). [25] He then chased an EF2 tornado near Aurora, Nebraska twelve days later, where a vortex inside the tornado blew out a window of the vehicle he was in, resulting in Timmer and photographer ...
The front wall of the tornado began to impact the vehicle, producing winds from the back side and lifting up Dominator 3. "You could definitely feel the lift from the tornado from the back end.
Spring, extreme weather and tornadoes are coming. ... a 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe; Dominator 2, a 2011 GMC Yukon XL (both of which were kept outside for a few years); and Dominator 3, a Ford F-350 crew ...
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 ...
RELATED: Storm chaser Reed Timmer brings Team Dominator and armored chase vehicles home to Oklahoma. ... He added, with a twister twist: "We work a lot closer to the tornadoes, too, and the crowds ...
It's the last chase of the season, and Mother Nature is going out with a bang. Team Dominator's Dominator 2 is 100% ready for the first time this season, and they end up chasing a monster tornado for a radar intercept. Team TWISTEX has one last chance to successfully deploy their probe while TIV still needs 3D footage from inside a twister.