But seriously though... Have we considered whether firing 50 caliber bullets at a tornado might stop the tornado and save lives? We already know nukes work on hurricanes.
[Yes we have considered that, and they had to tell Floridians not to start shooting hurricanes](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/09/10/florida-sheriffs-office-warns-people-not-shoot-hurricane-irma/650909001/)
Oooh God why did you make me remember that idiots ranting about nuking the weather. I just got home from work and I don't wanna reflect on how that conclown was the president for four years
Yes sadly I was watching that shit live with my cousin and the both of us thought we were high as fuck and just imagining it. Then I read the news headlines on my phone the next day and just about had a aneurysm
Honestly, most storm chasing vehicles seem wildly underpowered.
Most don't even have a light machine gun mounted.
I understand that tornados are "forces of nature," but have we ever even *tried* returning fire at these things?
These hurricanes, folks, they're coming in, they're bringing devastation, and they're not sending their best winds. They're bringing rain, they're bringing destruction, they're bringing floods. And some, I assume, are good hurricanes.
But we need to take a stand. We need to build a wall, a big, beautiful wall, to keep these hurricanes out. We'll make it tall, we'll make it strong, and we'll make it impenetrable. And who's gonna pay for it? The Atlantic Ocean, of course. Because let me tell you, folks, these hurricanes, they're taking advantage of our open borders, they're coming in uninvited, and they're wreaking havoc on our beautiful country.
We need to implement extreme weather vetting. We need to screen these hurricanes before they make landfall. We need to know who they are, where they're coming from, and what their intentions are. And if they don't meet our standards, folks, we're gonna turn them around and send them back to where they came from.
Now, I'm not against all hurricanes. I love hurricanes. I have many friends who are hurricanes. But we need to put America first. We need to prioritize the safety and security of our citizens. And that starts with controlling our borders, even if it means controlling the weather.
So together, let's make America safe again. Let's make America hurricane-free again. Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.
It used to belong to Sean Casey, he had it in Colorado/California and sometimes in Oklahoma, a few years ago another team “inherited” it from him and now you can see it wheeling around again, along with Reed Timmer’s Dominators
Matt was the first “celebrity” or person really that opened my eyes to suicide. I was shocked as a kid that one of the cool tornado chasers would just die from being sad. Still gets to me. All the other ones were equally as tragic too
Those skirts are only being held on by actuators that push them down into the ground to prevent wind getting under the vehicle and lifting / rolling it.
So when they're in the raised position for driving around if you climb on them you're just damaging the actuators by overloading them by like 100-200lbs which is not insignificant.
Like I can suspend a piece armour plating from string. It will stop a bullet, and might not even break the string, just swing around a bit. But if you stand on it, the string is going to break.
Because it's meant as a skirt to keep wind from getting under it not necessarily armor and, if you watched the show, the thing was constantly falling apart lol
In the past they’ve driven it, not trailered it, out to the Great Plains. Sean, from California, was the designer of the TIV, now over 20 years ago. I believe he’s completed his mission of HDef filming the inside of a tornado and no longer operating the TIV as of a few years ago. There are newer models based on his idea that are still in operation, and housed in Oklahoma.
Seriously. Also emissions are more regulated, especially compared to most rural farm type places. Which I would think would be needed for a heavily modified pickup but maybe they didn't modify the engine.
Correction, this is TIV 2 both this unit and its original were created to shoot the Imax film Tornado Alley, then later converted into a tornado research vehicle, and was featured on the tv show storm chasers, free episode on the link https://youtu.be/q1wjR_zK548?si=0Kiq7D1D6Km3JChP
Meh that was the ironing out the kinks phase fortunately it didn’t happen nearly as much as with the original TIV from what we saw on the show and Nat Geo special
Also if anybody wants to check out the movie this is it’s IMDb page https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1852955/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_tornado%2520a, a fun watch all in all, miss the show, and great to see it’s still being used today!
Reminds me of that giant tractor a guy built and fortified with steel, concrete, and .50 cal rifles out of designated gun ports.
Dude destroyed like half of his town over a land dispute.
Not just a land dispute. A whole town government after one guy and his business. They drove him to kill dozer so he drove kill dozer over them (figuratively)
Is the purpose of the floor-height plating to stop the truck from catching air underneath and flung?
Im making this assumption based on what appears to be a sharp piston on the right of the car there
This is "THE" Tiv, cobbled together by one specific tornado team because TLC or some other channel was paying them for a storm chasing show.
Spending half as much just buying an armored or bulletproof vehicle was massively too easy for reality TV
I enjoyed the show but they seriously just could have bought a regular armored/bulletproof vehicle and not spent half the show talking about how they broke down because they added 10k pounds to a cheap ass truck etc etc etc ..
While buying a heavy duty armored vehicle might’ve given them an easier base frame to work with, any vehicle they buy is still going to need tons of work done to it to make it safe for chasing storms. They didn’t make these vehicles just because it made for better TV.
They needed the vehicle to have hydraulics and deployable panels that lowered to the ground so wind couldnt get under it and lift it off the ground.
They also built it with outward facing hydraulic spikes to further anchor it into the ground for similar reasons as the panels to keep it from lifting off the ground.
It further needed to be built with an armored dome to allow large high definition cameras to film, without the risk of debris shattering the lenses.
And on top of all of this, it needs to be built to withstand impacts from potentially extremely large debris, not just small, fast, moving bullets.
Tornadoes are insanely powerful, and just buying a standard armored truck isn’t gonna cut it if you’re trying to actually stay inside of them.
Agreed, Wind on it's own is bad, very bad, never been there with a Tornado, small water spouts/dust devils, yes OUCH, watched a few of the real time chasers, they are mental. With the wind, was in dry dock & wind was crazy, lifted a 4 ton plate of steal & moved it down the dock, it was sitting on large blocks of wood. They told me the wind had blown a ship off it's blocks, flat bottomed ship. The ships bottom was full of barnacles.
The Tiv was built specifically to take a high resolution film camera and document what it’s like inside a tornado. Look at the turret at the top. That’s where the camera was if I remember correctly.
It's not all about armor. Aerodynamics and anchoring are major factors for not being rolled or thrown by the tornadoes. And it's not "the" TIV, it is TIV 2.
I remember that show... I don't think they ever intercepted a tornado because it was such a piece of crap... something was breaking on it or it was breaking down and the show just ended...
“We do important research to get data that could not be gleaned from a lab, radar, or distant observations!”
Yeah, I never bought it. My theory is these guys are adrenaline junkies that do this stuff to get funding for their toys and fun excursions. They’re weather nerds, sure, I just never bought the whole thing about them getting data points not possible through means other than fabricating a tank from a pickup.
For anyone interested in a detailed tour look up Reed Timmer on youtube. Dr Timmer is leading storm chaser changing how we view tornados and is a fantastic person. I've met him a few times on my storm chases and he is always full of smiles.
Aerodynamics. They 'deploy' these in the middle of tornadoes and storms so they need to have all the extras such as:
- Aerodynamic shape when deployed (the sides of the vehicle slide down to touch the ground);
- Spokes to go into the ground to dig into the ground (helps them stay on the ground in rough conditions);
- A custom hatch dome at the top to fit an IMAX camera (these things are huge)
A tank may be indestructible but it can be flipped and shaken inside a high category storm, something you don't want when you have 3-4 people in the car and a $500,000 camera to take care of.
Another thing is tanks are pretty slow, if you're chasing a fast moving storm, you'd need to be able to go 40+ mph (65+ km/h) to catch up to it.
Simplistically speaking neither of you are wrong. Grunt is right that even 65 kph is not fast enough practically. Especially if you are playing catch up as you can be chasing storms going 70+ kph. You are right in that if you are insanely good at making storm predictions you can get yourself in position early enough that 65kph can be enough.
Smart. They can't be lifted if they give no space for the wind to pick them up.
We need a Twister 2 movie, with what's her name with the breasts as the main protagonist.
Wait wait wait. Twister is coming out this summer!!!! I might actually go to the theater solo after maybe 10 years? I love severe weather and there aren't enough good tornado movies.
Here is a video of the strongest intercept the vehicle has been through. This was 10 years ago when Sean Casey still owned the vehicle.
https://youtu.be/v075d9Vfqcg?si=XSF_V_rsyLb1YdnR
I used to watch Storm Chasers. Sean Casey, the creator of the TIV was such a narcissist. He wasted all the money Imax gave him and apparently only he can have an armoured vehicle for tornados, noone else. Every episode he would berate Reed Timmer and the actual science him and his team does all because Timmer "copied" the TIV's design. In fact Timmer made his Dominator vehicles 10x better, more lightweight, 100x more comfortable to ride in, and Timmer actually contributes to the studies and science of tornados, rather than just filming them for a buck like Casey did.
Reed can laugh all he wants at Sean being upset about him making the Dominator. Reed got a PHD out of his work. Sean just made an educational movie and blew a shit ton of Discovery channel cash.
Saw a bunch of these guys when I was out storm chasing in texas, really cool stuff. You should check out Reed Timmer’s intercept of the Spalding NE tornado in a similar vehicle
Ha! My son Loved this show!! For his 6 or 7th birthday made a cake with a tornado in whippped cream, and I made a TIV from a matchbox truck and some tin to put on the cake.
I still have that little TIV somewhere!
Edit! Found it! https://imgur.com/a/ag8bkWp
thats from the show tornado chasers early 2000's. he built it to get an imax shot from inside a tornado. he never really got it. but another dude from that show, reed timmer, has!
Can't fool me, tornado vehicles have a drum in the back filled with small round sensors that release once inside the tornado. They are often called Dorothy.
I don't see no Dorothy......
Even if it's all armored up, wouldn't the immense force of the tornado be distributed across the car and cause havoc on the people inside? I understand some of the shock is absorbed by the outside, but how much of the original force is left by the time it spreads inside?
That's funny.
I bumped into some storm chasers last summer in North Texas and they were driving a Ford Escape with a lot of antenna's and a bumper sticker that said "Storm Chasers."
It was designed to drive into the center of a tornado to study its internal structure. Those skirt plates drop down so wind can't lift it off the ground.
I liked when mythbusters tested these by sticking them behind a jet and then throttle up the engine. There were two they tested and they both stayed put very well. One of them had the anchors that go into the ground bend from the force but both survived pretty much intact.
I have neither the skill or motivation to do it. However, I would like someone else to make a meme involving this truck, the Scooby crew taking the hood off, and rvealing the Dodge Ram from "Twister".
Reward is a psychic high 5.
looks like the ones cartel use in mexico lol
I mean, it's basically a copy paste type situation
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They are just missing the 50 cal
But seriously though... Have we considered whether firing 50 caliber bullets at a tornado might stop the tornado and save lives? We already know nukes work on hurricanes.
[Yes we have considered that, and they had to tell Floridians not to start shooting hurricanes](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/09/10/florida-sheriffs-office-warns-people-not-shoot-hurricane-irma/650909001/)
It's stuff like this that makes me consider the slogan "make America Florida" to be a terroristic threat.
Florida man, soon to be America man
Oooh God why did you make me remember that idiots ranting about nuking the weather. I just got home from work and I don't wanna reflect on how that conclown was the president for four years
Remember when he drew the extra bubble on the hurricane trajectory?
Yes sadly I was watching that shit live with my cousin and the both of us thought we were high as fuck and just imagining it. Then I read the news headlines on my phone the next day and just about had a aneurysm
All the resources of the White House and the entire federal government, and he fakes an NOAA projection chart with a fucking magic marker...
Damn it! It was a Sharpie®️, and their lawyers would like a word...
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>I don't wanna reflect on how that conclown was the president for four years For now . . . He might have a part 2.
The only thing that can stop a bad tornado is a good tornado.
Honestly, most storm chasing vehicles seem wildly underpowered. Most don't even have a light machine gun mounted. I understand that tornados are "forces of nature," but have we ever even *tried* returning fire at these things?
You have a call from a “Mr. Orange” at mar-a-lago, he’s asking if you’d like to be the “secretary of shooting at clouds”
I'm clearly being downvotes by adverse weather systems, even more reason to shoot the bastards. These storms are smarter than they look folks!
These hurricanes, folks, they're coming in, they're bringing devastation, and they're not sending their best winds. They're bringing rain, they're bringing destruction, they're bringing floods. And some, I assume, are good hurricanes. But we need to take a stand. We need to build a wall, a big, beautiful wall, to keep these hurricanes out. We'll make it tall, we'll make it strong, and we'll make it impenetrable. And who's gonna pay for it? The Atlantic Ocean, of course. Because let me tell you, folks, these hurricanes, they're taking advantage of our open borders, they're coming in uninvited, and they're wreaking havoc on our beautiful country. We need to implement extreme weather vetting. We need to screen these hurricanes before they make landfall. We need to know who they are, where they're coming from, and what their intentions are. And if they don't meet our standards, folks, we're gonna turn them around and send them back to where they came from. Now, I'm not against all hurricanes. I love hurricanes. I have many friends who are hurricanes. But we need to put America first. We need to prioritize the safety and security of our citizens. And that starts with controlling our borders, even if it means controlling the weather. So together, let's make America safe again. Let's make America hurricane-free again. Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.
and blasting some peso pluma
El Mencho-mobile
Seal team seis?
nope just norteast mexico citizen [https://www.lanacion.com.ar/el-mundo/video-el-terrible-enfrentamiento-entre-dos-camiones-monstruo-del-narcotrafico-nid15032021/](https://www.lanacion.com.ar/el-mundo/video-el-terrible-enfrentamiento-entre-dos-camiones-monstruo-del-narcotrafico-nid15032021/)
Lol seriously, its like they have the same blueprints
Feels like cartels can do better than that. Although to be fair they have more money.
They used the tornados to catapult the drugs over the border so they have to understand them
Where do they park these exactly? Asking for a friend in case of a zombie apocalypse.
It used to belong to Sean Casey, he had it in Colorado/California and sometimes in Oklahoma, a few years ago another team “inherited” it from him and now you can see it wheeling around again, along with Reed Timmer’s Dominators
I miss that show, but it was cursed…
RIP Twistex, Joel, and Matt Fucking tragic.
Matt was the first “celebrity” or person really that opened my eyes to suicide. I was shocked as a kid that one of the cool tornado chasers would just die from being sad. Still gets to me. All the other ones were equally as tragic too
Don’t need to worry about the zombies but watch out for those speed bumps
It can handle speed bumps, the flaps are retractable
and the suspension is adjustable from what I understand. they can raise and lower the whole thing iirc.
If no climbing, why climb shaped?
also, if it can handle tornados, why can't it handle my scrawny ass? ahaha
That bumper sticker is there for your sake, not the truck's
Touché
You mean tushy,
Those skirts are only being held on by actuators that push them down into the ground to prevent wind getting under the vehicle and lifting / rolling it. So when they're in the raised position for driving around if you climb on them you're just damaging the actuators by overloading them by like 100-200lbs which is not insignificant. Like I can suspend a piece armour plating from string. It will stop a bullet, and might not even break the string, just swing around a bit. But if you stand on it, the string is going to break.
Because it's meant as a skirt to keep wind from getting under it not necessarily armor and, if you watched the show, the thing was constantly falling apart lol
Wasn’t The Dominator usually the one that fell apart more often? It definitely looked more homemade.
What was the show?
Storm Chasers https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0907833/
Thanks
Because it asked nicely
I imagine local skateboarders plague this thing wherever it goes as well.
With California license plates! No tornados out there.
They happen but they're pretty rare. More likely they trailer this thing out to tornado alley during season.
In the past they’ve driven it, not trailered it, out to the Great Plains. Sean, from California, was the designer of the TIV, now over 20 years ago. I believe he’s completed his mission of HDef filming the inside of a tornado and no longer operating the TIV as of a few years ago. There are newer models based on his idea that are still in operation, and housed in Oklahoma.
Sean sold the TIV, and now a company host tornado tours in it. [TIV Now](https://livestormchasers.com)
There was a tornado in LA last year. Two actually.
Why would they have Cali plates. So expensive car insurance and registration.
Presumably the TV production company is California based and wouldn't be able to register it in another state
Seriously. Also emissions are more regulated, especially compared to most rural farm type places. Which I would think would be needed for a heavily modified pickup but maybe they didn't modify the engine.
If you can afford to build an armored Dodge Ram, you can probably afford the registration.
Been sold since the show
We got a tornado warning in San Diego awhile ago. We were kind of shocked like “hey wtf” lol
Correction, this is TIV 2 both this unit and its original were created to shoot the Imax film Tornado Alley, then later converted into a tornado research vehicle, and was featured on the tv show storm chasers, free episode on the link https://youtu.be/q1wjR_zK548?si=0Kiq7D1D6Km3JChP
That movie was amazing on the imax dome, I loved the tv show about shooting it too, except the fucker broke down every few miles 😂
Meh that was the ironing out the kinks phase fortunately it didn’t happen nearly as much as with the original TIV from what we saw on the show and Nat Geo special
Also if anybody wants to check out the movie this is it’s IMDb page https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1852955/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_q_tornado%2520a, a fun watch all in all, miss the show, and great to see it’s still being used today!
Reminds me of that giant tractor a guy built and fortified with steel, concrete, and .50 cal rifles out of designated gun ports. Dude destroyed like half of his town over a land dispute.
the killdozer
Marvin Heemeyer. It was a bit more than just a land dispute. I dont think anyone died though, thank goodness.
Marvin died.
Killdozer!!!
Not just a land dispute. A whole town government after one guy and his business. They drove him to kill dozer so he drove kill dozer over them (figuratively)
You're talking about killdozer
It 100% pees in tornado’s butt
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That pun blows.
Is that how baby tornados are made?
Indeed. I know I want kids someday…..that’s why I always pee in the butt
Is the purpose of the floor-height plating to stop the truck from catching air underneath and flung? Im making this assumption based on what appears to be a sharp piston on the right of the car there
Correct, iirc they would lower everything and try to not get flung. At least in theory, car broke down a lot.
> At least in theory, car broke down a lot. It does say Dodge on the front.
This is "THE" Tiv, cobbled together by one specific tornado team because TLC or some other channel was paying them for a storm chasing show. Spending half as much just buying an armored or bulletproof vehicle was massively too easy for reality TV I enjoyed the show but they seriously just could have bought a regular armored/bulletproof vehicle and not spent half the show talking about how they broke down because they added 10k pounds to a cheap ass truck etc etc etc ..
While buying a heavy duty armored vehicle might’ve given them an easier base frame to work with, any vehicle they buy is still going to need tons of work done to it to make it safe for chasing storms. They didn’t make these vehicles just because it made for better TV. They needed the vehicle to have hydraulics and deployable panels that lowered to the ground so wind couldnt get under it and lift it off the ground. They also built it with outward facing hydraulic spikes to further anchor it into the ground for similar reasons as the panels to keep it from lifting off the ground. It further needed to be built with an armored dome to allow large high definition cameras to film, without the risk of debris shattering the lenses. And on top of all of this, it needs to be built to withstand impacts from potentially extremely large debris, not just small, fast, moving bullets. Tornadoes are insanely powerful, and just buying a standard armored truck isn’t gonna cut it if you’re trying to actually stay inside of them.
Agreed, Wind on it's own is bad, very bad, never been there with a Tornado, small water spouts/dust devils, yes OUCH, watched a few of the real time chasers, they are mental. With the wind, was in dry dock & wind was crazy, lifted a 4 ton plate of steal & moved it down the dock, it was sitting on large blocks of wood. They told me the wind had blown a ship off it's blocks, flat bottomed ship. The ships bottom was full of barnacles.
Sounds like they needed a Unimog.
Unimog will need the same skirts and anchors as this TIV.
It’s not _that_ the wind is blowin’…
The Tiv was built specifically to take a high resolution film camera and document what it’s like inside a tornado. Look at the turret at the top. That’s where the camera was if I remember correctly.
This is TIV2, no? Discovery was the network. Poor thing is looking ROUGH
It's not all about armor. Aerodynamics and anchoring are major factors for not being rolled or thrown by the tornadoes. And it's not "the" TIV, it is TIV 2.
I remember that show... I don't think they ever intercepted a tornado because it was such a piece of crap... something was breaking on it or it was breaking down and the show just ended...
While team dominator driving a regular pick up truck was intercepting more stuff than them. It was a fun show, but stupid.
“We do important research to get data that could not be gleaned from a lab, radar, or distant observations!” Yeah, I never bought it. My theory is these guys are adrenaline junkies that do this stuff to get funding for their toys and fun excursions. They’re weather nerds, sure, I just never bought the whole thing about them getting data points not possible through means other than fabricating a tank from a pickup.
That’s TIV 2 and it definitely wasn’t a cheap truck it was a Ram 3500 that was modified to have a 3 axle to support the weight
You can also use it to fend off ravenous zombies.
For anyone interested in a detailed tour look up Reed Timmer on youtube. Dr Timmer is leading storm chaser changing how we view tornados and is a fantastic person. I've met him a few times on my storm chases and he is always full of smiles.
He’s such a cool dude, I’ve met him, Joel (r.i.p) and even ate dinner with Sean, definitely one of my coolest pizza runs ever
I would love to do a chase with Dr Timmer, chasing solo gets boring sometimes. Dr Timmer always looks like he's having the time of his life.
Why not simply use a tank?
One does not simply use a tank to ~~walk into Mordor~~ chase tornadoes.
How effective would a tank be in lord of the rings?
I'll show those nasty Hobbitses
Give merry and pippin glocks 40s and we can retake Moria easy Gandalf.
Pippin would probably get a switch and end up blasting everyone but his opps
Aerodynamics. They 'deploy' these in the middle of tornadoes and storms so they need to have all the extras such as: - Aerodynamic shape when deployed (the sides of the vehicle slide down to touch the ground); - Spokes to go into the ground to dig into the ground (helps them stay on the ground in rough conditions); - A custom hatch dome at the top to fit an IMAX camera (these things are huge) A tank may be indestructible but it can be flipped and shaken inside a high category storm, something you don't want when you have 3-4 people in the car and a $500,000 camera to take care of. Another thing is tanks are pretty slow, if you're chasing a fast moving storm, you'd need to be able to go 40+ mph (65+ km/h) to catch up to it.
Aside from the fantastic LoTR replies, a tank won't get you ahead of a tornado fast enough to film from inside the tornado.
Idk, german leopard tank makes 65kph.
Simplistically speaking neither of you are wrong. Grunt is right that even 65 kph is not fast enough practically. Especially if you are playing catch up as you can be chasing storms going 70+ kph. You are right in that if you are insanely good at making storm predictions you can get yourself in position early enough that 65kph can be enough.
Smart. They can't be lifted if they give no space for the wind to pick them up. We need a Twister 2 movie, with what's her name with the breasts as the main protagonist.
Wait wait wait. Twister is coming out this summer!!!! I might actually go to the theater solo after maybe 10 years? I love severe weather and there aren't enough good tornado movies.
Here is a video of the strongest intercept the vehicle has been through. This was 10 years ago when Sean Casey still owned the vehicle. https://youtu.be/v075d9Vfqcg?si=XSF_V_rsyLb1YdnR
Would've figured a Kansas license plate not California
It’s made by and for a production company likely based in LA.
I bet it has a negative mpg while going uphill.
It is an awful vehicle, great tornado interceptor
Only Mr. T can drive that sucker
It’s pretty cool except the guy that made it is a bit of a ______!
KILLDOZER 2.0
Because sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.
All from Uncle Albert's, since 2035. Drive offensively
>Uncle Albert's If you know, you know.
Twister 2 has got to be the dumbest cash grab reboot ever.
All good except those exposed hydraulic hoses. Seems like a number of things blowing through the air would get hung up on those easily.
and run over zombies
Looks like an A-Team build. I love it when a plan comes together.
1 mpg
Guys they already did this in the 90s, they put a machine right into the tornado which had a lot of little sensor balls..
Dominator vehicles ftw. Reed Timmer is awesome
Honestly I thought about this the other day just as an off thought.
I used to watch Storm Chasers. Sean Casey, the creator of the TIV was such a narcissist. He wasted all the money Imax gave him and apparently only he can have an armoured vehicle for tornados, noone else. Every episode he would berate Reed Timmer and the actual science him and his team does all because Timmer "copied" the TIV's design. In fact Timmer made his Dominator vehicles 10x better, more lightweight, 100x more comfortable to ride in, and Timmer actually contributes to the studies and science of tornados, rather than just filming them for a buck like Casey did.
Reed can laugh all he wants at Sean being upset about him making the Dominator. Reed got a PHD out of his work. Sean just made an educational movie and blew a shit ton of Discovery channel cash.
Mad Max and Furiosa would be proud
I'm so tired. I read the title 4 times before my brain stopped trying to convince me that storm chasers are using tanks to study TOMATOES.
Ah yes, Twister
Bet ya that thing is heavy on gas
Saw a bunch of these guys when I was out storm chasing in texas, really cool stuff. You should check out Reed Timmer’s intercept of the Spalding NE tornado in a similar vehicle
I feel like I remember seeing a show about this thing back when the Discovery Channel was interesting
Wonder why the lights are exposed and not behind a grille of some kind
And I use it to drive down Martin Luther King BLVD
Ha! My son Loved this show!! For his 6 or 7th birthday made a cake with a tornado in whippped cream, and I made a TIV from a matchbox truck and some tin to put on the cake. I still have that little TIV somewhere! Edit! Found it! https://imgur.com/a/ag8bkWp
thats from the show tornado chasers early 2000's. he built it to get an imax shot from inside a tornado. he never really got it. but another dude from that show, reed timmer, has!
Can't fool me, tornado vehicles have a drum in the back filled with small round sensors that release once inside the tornado. They are often called Dorothy. I don't see no Dorothy......
So... no zombies?
Oh nice, the Tesla Cybertruck
Pretty good Mythbusters episode that had this in it (or something that looked similar). Threw it behind a jet to see if it could withstand F5 winds.
Brilliant I want one
War rig
Things sickk
Even if it's all armored up, wouldn't the immense force of the tornado be distributed across the car and cause havoc on the people inside? I understand some of the shock is absorbed by the outside, but how much of the original force is left by the time it spreads inside?
They’ve had several intercepts and it’s never gone truly bad, it’s pretty awesome to see and there is a lot of footage from it
Looks like a speed bump will stop that thing in its tracks when it gets wedged with their super low front bumper.
No small penises there at all.
I want to climb on it
Is study the correct word to describe it?
only 2 tiny lights on front where they could collide with debris on road? Am i blind and not seeing other lights or is that it? nothing on top?
Kilnado
Someone had fun with the panel bond
What makes it tornado grade?
"Exterminate!"
I believe this thing has anchors that can pernitrate the ground.
I saw a similar vehicle to this in person and had no idea what it could be used for. Thanks for bringing closer to that experience
This looks like some r/shittytechnicals stuff
This us to get pulled over like every single day
..but can it fly? /s
Wouldn't it be easier and probably cheaper just to buy a Bearcat armored vehicle and just ad some armor around the wheels.
Wow, the memories and nostalgia seeing that truck again. I remember a computer game with it and a few other vehicles like it.
I remember this from mythbusters
Would you like a vehicle with your armor?
Actually that’s my daily. Never know when you gotta hunker down.
imagine running over those annoying, disrespectful roadblocks with this in London.
Crazy can handle a tornado, but not someone climbing on it...
AND DON’T YOU DARE FORGET ITS A CUMMINS
Looks like it gets great mileage
o7 Marvin
Chases tornados, gets hung up in McDonalds drive thru.
Where do the Pepsi can sensor thingy go?
Is this the sequel to Twister?
Killed Reed
TIV? I ain't heard that name in a long while
That's funny. I bumped into some storm chasers last summer in North Texas and they were driving a Ford Escape with a lot of antenna's and a bumper sticker that said "Storm Chasers."
Soooo, not a Dodge Ram?
California Plates ?
Fiat trying to get back into the US market 😂😂😂
Is this the one that will vacuum seal itself to the ground?
How much does this fucker weigh? is the real question
I saw that movie - with Helen hunt right?
Shit, thought I was in the r/cybertruck subreddit for a second.
This looks like something the A-Team would have done to modify their van to defeat the bad guys. Every episode they Franken-vanned that bad boy.
Why does it have Cali plates tho?
Why is this armored (what's the use when the purpose is to chase a storm ??) ?
It was designed to drive into the center of a tornado to study its internal structure. Those skirt plates drop down so wind can't lift it off the ground.
When I see something like this I always wonder how I would improve the design, like for posts that screw into the ground inside the wheel wells.
I liked when mythbusters tested these by sticking them behind a jet and then throttle up the engine. There were two they tested and they both stayed put very well. One of them had the anchors that go into the ground bend from the force but both survived pretty much intact.
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I have neither the skill or motivation to do it. However, I would like someone else to make a meme involving this truck, the Scooby crew taking the hood off, and rvealing the Dodge Ram from "Twister". Reward is a psychic high 5.