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— Corey Gerken (@CoreyGerkenWX) January 9, 2024 Tornado #2 cross I10 just south of Marianna, Florida moments ago blowing a semi over. Damage on the SE side of Marianna," said @CoreyGerkenWX.
To find out a bit more about the truth behind the film, Road & Track talked with a real-life storm chaser to untangle the facts from the movie magic with regard to both chase vehicles and the ...
Before she began storm-chasing, Al-Sayegh, 40, photographed landscapes and cityscapes as a hobby. Her enthusiasm for meteorological phenomena was ignited by chance. In 2011, she went out to shoot ...
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]
Casey and his team developed and built the second Tornado Intercept Vehicle, dubbed TIV 2, to be featured in their next IMAX movie and the Storm Chasers series. [12] Work began in September 2007 by forty welding students at the Great Plains Technology Center in Lawton, Oklahoma and was completed in time for the 2008 tornado chase season.
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 ...
Storm Chaser Jordan Hall was in the vehicle with Timmer as they approached the tornado near Spalding, Nebraska, that afternoon. Timmer momentarily stopped Dominator 3 to allow Hall to deploy a ...
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.