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Tornado Intercept Vehicle

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  • 05-30-2013, 11:51 PM
    MasonC2K
    Tornado Intercept Vehicle
    I've been keeping track of this guy's exploits for a while now. And he finally hit a big one. For those that don't know, this guy spent hundreds of thousands on making this car that can take a hit from a tornado with the purpose of filming and taking data from inside. This vid is pretty intense.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LobCDYO78Us
  • 05-30-2013, 11:58 PM
    BHReptiles
    Re: Tornado Intercept Vehicle
    When I had cable at my house, I used to watch the show on Discovery Channel. Intense. That was some crazy footage!
  • 05-31-2013, 03:18 AM
    Mrl249
    Tornado Intercept Vehicle
    Wow. That was nuts
  • 05-31-2013, 07:02 AM
    kitedemon
    I am sad it got canned.
  • 05-31-2013, 05:05 PM
    BHReptiles
    Re: Tornado Intercept Vehicle
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by kitedemon View Post
    I am sad it got canned.

    There's a website now where you can watch the webcams of the storm chasers during tornados ( http://www.chasertv.com/ ) It's pretty neat if you can find a webcam with an actual tornado on the ground.
  • 05-31-2013, 05:10 PM
    Neal
    Wow, that would be awesome. Though I'm curious if the tornado threw something sharp and that was hard enough, wouldn't it still go through something like that?
  • 05-31-2013, 05:43 PM
    Mike41793
    Tornado Intercept Vehicle
    I complain about the price of gas and there are people spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a vehicle that can drive into a tornado... smh lol

    Is the data he collects at least useful to scientists or something?
  • 06-01-2013, 12:25 AM
    BHReptiles
    Re: Tornado Intercept Vehicle
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Mike41793 View Post
    I complain about the price of gas and there are people spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a vehicle that can drive into a tornado... smh lol

    Is the data he collects at least useful to scientists or something?

    Yes, it is! It's taking data like wind speeds, pressure data (if you notice, they were talking about their ears popping), and other data like that.
  • 06-01-2013, 12:51 AM
    Kodieh
    Re: Tornado Intercept Vehicle
    Reed Timmer's Dominator got its hood ripped off by the tornados here in OK tonight.

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  • 06-01-2013, 01:42 AM
    Neal
    Yea those are insane, costly as hell to build, though the other one weighs double what the Dominator weighs. Is the F4 tornado the one that ripped his hood off?
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