May 27, 1997 15:30 F5 tornado Jarrell, Tx.
200 mph winds a mile wide at 20 MPH.
I am, but I don’t have cable. I see it when I visit my parents.
Didn’t catch last season but caught a marithon a few weeks ago and was hooked. Cool show.
I’ll take a look. I do like storm shows.
I wasn’t really a “fan” of twister sisters but I found that one had really incredible photography. When I watched that one, I wish I had HD.
I like the show, as i like most of th stuff on Histrory and Discovery channels.
What’s up with a $100,000 TIV2 and they can’t keep the friggin wheels on the thing? Losuy design that I am damn glad I don’t have to risk my life in!
I watch Storm Chasers on occasion and always enjoy it. Have recently watched several shows, but missed the one that they encountered in Stuttgart, Arkansas this year and I was really wanting to watch that episode. That tornadic cell came very close to the Baptist Hospital where I was visiting my sister, in west Little Rock. I was praying the whole time that it would miss the hospital. It did, but not by much. I wonder if there’s a streaming video of that show anywhere on the net?
I’m watching the show, but so far I have found it a bit of a disappointment. The only tornado footage I’ve seen so far has been from ten miles away. The constant breakdown of equipment shows an unprofessional, unprepared group that is wasting huge sums of money. I mean come on, this guy has been trying to get footage inside the tornado for *5 years* and they still can’t keep their radar or truck operational? You would think after the radar broke down for the 100th time, they would figure out that it was not properly constructed for the harsh conditions of the road, and they would have fixed it.
Mythbusters and Dirty Jobs are my favorite shows. Discovery is a good channel.
I’m watching it, but it seems mostly a show about incompetence. Maybe that’s just how the producers interpret it for us.
The team with all the expensive trucks and gear seem particularly inept at doing anything.
The other team reminds me of college kids shot up on speed. They are entertaining.
Still, I keep watching, hoping to see the TIV flying through the air.
This week’s display of “driving prowess” was just the latest example. If I’m a stormchaser in Kansas, I think I’ve got a truck with 4-wheel drive, and have trained to drive on dirt roads, since that’s what the job requires.
But if everybody knew what to do, we couldn’t all laugh at the guy sliding his truck into the ditch.
Last point: I notice that the one guy calls 5 out of ever 1 tornado.
Meaning for about every 5 times he says ‘look, there’s a tornado forming now’, he’s right about 1 out of those 5 times.
I brake for softball-sized hailstones.
Love how they armor-up the chase vehicles and they still come back smashed to heck after hitting a nasty downfall of chunks of stuff..
We never tried to get in the storms like the storm chasers do now, because we wouldn't get a decent picture due to the rain and dust.
I watched it last season and swore I would never waste another minute of my life on it.
My husband and daughters think I am nuts. Storms chasers inspired me to take storm spotter training and obtain my amateur radio license.
I have promised to stay home close to the basement when I am babysitting for the grandkids.
Interesting program (I was in a house when a tornado destroyed it) and one the kids can watch.