The only real way to tell what is on the site is to click on each year and look. 04 would be the best with 05 coming in right behind it.
I couldn’t help myself. The TIV(Tornado Intercept Vehicle) was doing 20 mph as this meso passed just to the ne of us. I could tell it was east of the highway and wondered why exactly it was I needed to pass the tornado intercept vehicle. It was funny at the time. You can’t help but feel something is wrong when passing the TIV.
The vehicle you may have seen on the Mid-west roads this spring is a vehicle designed to safely film tornadoes from a close distance. This vehicle has not been designed to penetrate tornadoes, only to film at close quarters. We are in the process of producing an Imax film on tornadoes, which will be released in 2008.
“We had a close call in 2001 in a minivan where we actually locked ourselves out of the minivan,” he says. “We were really close to these tornados. It was just after that we thought, Let’s build a vehicle that can take some abuse“.