There are two vehicles on earth rigid enough to withstand a tornado’s dangerous ground vortex. One is Storm Of Passion’s TIV-2, the thing we are about to storm chase in.

The 14,000-pound TIV-2 is just such a vehicle ... The armor plates slide down to the pavement on each side, preventing the car from being lifted. For even more stability, it uses steel spears ...

Storm Of Passion’s Ryan Shepard answers storm chasing questions, including NOAA budget cuts, why his TIV-2 is important to ...

The Tornado Attack Vehicle There is another tornado intercept vehicle out there you may have read about, called the TA-1 or Tornado Attack Vehicle. The TA-1 was built by Steve Green, a race car ...

And that’s how the original TIV (Tornado Intercept Vehicle) was born back in 2003. In 2008, and after the TIV made it on prime time television in a series called Storm Chasers that began airing ...

The documentarian’s Tornado Intercept Vehicle (TIV) features 10 wheels that ... s “light damage from debris,” which judging by the car’s previous appearances on the big and small screen ...

The vehicle, called the Tornado Intercept Vehicle 1 (TIV1), was located by storm ... which showed it looking a bit out of shape. Describing the car as a "hulking monstrosity," Clayton said the ...