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What's it like to be a storm chaser?
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Reed Timmer details his experience
- Duration 2:31
- Date Nov 29, 2012
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I -- is just the opposite retailer Natalie chases storms.
-- drives this tank like vehicle that dominated -- right into the heart of the storm and turns out.
Read to him or is he rejoins us live without the need to read welcome Laura Ingraham I don't like you got -- -- -- -- Clark had -- what -- That this is that vehicle that we used to drive and the tornadoes and it's got sixteen days still lie next coating on the outside it's got -- spike system and there it is that we openly violent.
The next couple of what other witnesses it.
Is that on the humvees and basically.
To protect like the oil tankers -- -- -- this case that's protective like vying to about floors flying trees going through there right and every day.
It it tilt down your your car has a skirt.
Yes you have to start the bottom -- hydraulics will drop this plot to the ground others she's the only your inside a tornado the tornado doesn't have any way to get the win didn't need to pick up exactly we don't wanna go flying today aired once they on the ground to make a record data inside the -- and and that's that.
Yeah that's anemometer that matters horizontal wind and it's dark -- camp and defensive missile shoot -- -- probes into the tornado -- their carry -- inside and then this this glass dome right here are you tell me that you're gonna stand up inside they're just to.
Oh that's our radar at around -- the radar and you before the -- covered -- heads up at Henry -- the scariest moment hat even in this.
Problem with the window blowout back in that 2009 and it may have glass right yeah we have -- and -- does he pressed the button and automatically pop up Garnett.
Definitely editor Rick and look at how thick it's boring it's at very thick armor and you -- the spikes the right -- -- there to the right.
So those leaving go into the wrote like 45 inches and it -- the data -- -- you know so you can get -- Better data being inside a tornado that -- didn't -- -- local.
Exactly because some of the strongest wind speeds are right grounds -- got to be up close and got inside imagine the -- And you've also look -- you've got real close would you like some sort of the cameras inside Lebanon right we have -- -- we heavy squat Compton drones you like these are remote control helicopters fly swarm those in size we have cameras attached to that that proves that we -- into the tornadoes back here.
It's just a guess if people would like to see the video from elect him from the your special -- to go to tornado videos dot net yeah our videos are there and then TV at weather dot com -- yeah.
We -- have a -- there.
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