Video Inside June 5, 2009 La Grange, Wyoming Tornado
There were several other storm chasers on the supercell that produced the June 5, 2009 La Grange, Wyoming Tornado. One such group was TornadoVideos.net (TVN). Reed Timmer leads this group and if you followed the Storm Chasers show last season on Discovery you would have seen how crazy he is when it comes to tornadoes. He loves making extreme videos, but he also is trying to get never before seen scientific data. He now has a vehicle rivaling the Tornado Intercept Vehicle (TIV) called the TVN Dominator. Its a Chevy Tahoe covered with a dark red titanium shell. The picture below is when it was first completed, but they have since painted it darker red. I saw it once on V2 on the interstate but it was to far away to take a picture of it.
They intercepted the EF-2 tornado on June 5 near La Grange and shot some pretty impressive video. The tornado actually went very close to if not right over their vehicle. They are collecting data and grabbed this information from their blog.. “The goal of this vehicle is to more efficiently deploy our tornado probe in the path of tornadoes with our new probe deployment tray (see pictures of the rear below), and to get extremely close to tornadoes and scan vertical wind velocities with our single beam radar (which will be mounted in the roof bracket in a week or so). Direct measurement of these vertical winds has never been done before’, and we hope collection of this data will increase substantially our understanding of tornadoes, and the damage tornadic winds can cause.”
So with the above mind watch the following video at the link below
Video INSIDE La Grange, WY Tornado From TornadoVideos.net
Lastly, their measured wind velocities were impressive. The highest 3 second average was 150.2 mph, with 155.2 mph being the maximum 1 second wind gust.
