NOW IN PAPERBACK! tornadostore.net Follow us on Facebook and Twitter! www.facebook.com @reedtimmerTVN May 4, 2007 - A beautiful yet violent tornado grinds away in the Ellis County, Oklahoma countryside. This same storm eventually split and formed what became the Greensburg, KS EF-5 tornado. Find out the rest of the story in INTO THE STORM. Reed Timmer, a star of the top rated Storm Chasers Television series on the Discovery Channel, is one of the most successful and most extreme storm chasers in the world. His is a job that requires science and bravado, knowledge and instinct just to survive, never mind excel. It’s a job some people would kill for. But most prefer to let Timmer take the risks while they watch from the safety of their own homes. Now, in Into the Storm, he takes readers inside the terrifying and awe-inspiring world of big weather. Into the Storm is Timmer’s dramatic account of his extraordinary profession. Featuring stories of the three-hundred-plus extreme tornadoes, hurricanes, or blizzards that Timmer has watched ring-side over the last decade—storms that include the killer F5 tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma, in May 1999; the unprecedented, devastating storm surge of Hurricane Katrina; and the little-studied but enormously powerful storm systems in places like Canada and Argentina. As a Ph.D. candidate in meteorology, Timmer is after more than just an adrenaline rush—his stories feature fascinating insights into the science of storms, and how the …
One mile wide wedge tornado from near Yazoo City, Mississippi on April 24, 2010. Intercepted the tornado near Holly Bluff just east of the Mississippi River, and tracked the huge wedge to the damage path in Yazoo City, after which we assisted with the rescue effort until emergency personnel gained control of the situation. Check out TornadoVideos.net for more updates…
Order your copy of INTO THE STORM now! www.tornadovideos.net In late 2009, Storm chasers Reed Timmer, Chris Chittick and company traveled to South America to experience storm season south of the Equator. They were rewarded for their efforts on their very first chase, documenting a large tornado near Santa Rosa, Argentina, on December 27, 2009. This is the first in a three-part series of teasers designed to give you a taste of chasing the Argentine Pampas! For more on this chase, visit www.tornadovideos.net
This video shows the aftermath of Hurricane Ike on Galveston Island, TX on Saturday morning after landfall. One of the biggest threats were fires, which were almost impossible to control given the strong winds. Check out the pre-landfall surf and landfall videos on the TornadoVideos.net channel
Here is a shortened version of the video of the Ellis Co, OK tornado shot by tornadovideos.net storm chasers Reed Timmer and Ken Cole. This tornado occurred with the same storm system as the Greensburg, KS F5, but earlier in the day in northwest OK. Check out tornadovideos.net for more insane tornaod footage, breaking news, and our live GPS tracker
Up-close, extreme footage of the intense Macksville, KS tornado on June 15, 2009. This tornado passed a few hundred yards in front of the vehicle as it split into two vortices ripping trees from the ground, and then turned southwest and headed straight for us! TornadoVideos.net was recording vertical wind data with the mobile radar (CLOVER). Check out TornadoVideos.net for more extreme footage, and be sure to watch Storm Chasers on Discovery Channel this fall for more insane tornado action!…
TVN’s RC Super Hauler aircraft deployed multiple parachute probes into the inflow region of the MONSTER supercell thunderstorm that eventually spawned the Aurora, NE tornado. This same storm produced several tornadoes hours before reaching Aurora, including those captured here, west of Grand Island and northeast of Kearney. For more on the TVN RC plane project, visit TornadoVideos.net, and tune in to Discovery Channel’s Storm Chasers this fall!
INSANE video from inside the powerful Aurora, Nebraska tornado on June 17, 2009. The tornado intensified right on top of the TornadoVideos.net SRV Dominator, and the window was blown out as an intense mini suction vortex passed over the vehicle. A 138.8 mph wind gust was measured by the roof anemometer as the window blow out. Check out Storm Chasers on Discovery Channel this Fall for the video of the glass slamming into our faces.
Storm chasers Dick McGowan and Darin Brunin captured intense footage of the June 17 2009 southern Nebraska tornadoes, at one point being enveloped by the ground circulation! For more details on the latter part of this video, follow this link: www.tornadovideos.net