Tornado Chase Vehicles& Storm Chasing Vehicles

CHASE VEHICLES

Video Clips of Storm chase Vehicles seen while out chasing Click Here

This vehicle is designed by Sean Casey was made to penetrate the edge of weak tornadoes and film them at close quarters. Sean Casey is producing an Imax film on tornadoes. I know I can't wait to see his work. I wouldn't mind having one myself. He works closely with Doppler on Wheels to gather the worlds most comprehensive tornado data ever.

We run into Sean Casey and Josh Wurman on almost every chase during the season and often times we are just a few minutes in front of them. Here Sean is parked next to us during a tornadic storm in the Texas Panhandle.

We run into multiple chasers including experts like Josh Wurman who has captured the fast winds in the world with Doppler radar of over 300 miles per hour. Josh Wurman is the worlds premier tornado scientist getting information no one else has in the world.
Doppler On Wheels

Marshall Gilstrap- Kansas City, KS Wyandotte County	Click on photo for larger view of Marshall's newest Chase Vehicle. I like the new set of wheels he has for himself.
	Perry Lambert's chase vehicle. Perry is from Wichita, Ks. Perry used to be a Sedgewick County Sheriffs cadet, and is currently working on a new chase vehicle that should be done here pretty soon.

Jason Cashman of Port Rrichey, Florida has been a SKYWARN spotter since Nov. 2004.

The car is a 2000 ford contour that he uses for his spotting and chasing.

John Griswold Chase Vehicle is a 1989 ford 3-350 Donated by Lifestar Rescue vehicles.
Note the laptop for Gps and overhead console for rear video and radio operations. There is an engineer station. Main computer systems and rear communications stations. The front from the rear the lower monitor is linked to switch from the rear two computers for the navigator and driver. Also above is the onboard video and radio system. He is part of the website http://www.mcwar.org

NSSL1 National Severe Storms Laboratory chase vehicle
The Weather Channels "Storm Tracker"

Gene Rhoden's chase vehicle. Gene is buy far one of the best photographers in storm chasing KFDI Mobile Units. KFDI weather coverage is known around The world as one of the best!

"StormTracker" Carson Eads' chase vehicle Michael Masters old chase vehicle, a friend of Andrew Oldaker's (Thanks for the updated info)

Larry Writes chase vehicle Joey Ketcham's chase vehicle

J. Ferrell chase vehicle "Dryline Chaser " Tim Samaras' chase vehicle tsamaras@ecentral.com

Nick Nicholson's chase vehicle

KTC 3, Matt Dennis' chase vehicle.

The KTC 3 is a 1993 Toyota 4x4 equipped with a lap top computer with internet access via a cell phone and GPS unit hooked to the laptop with mapping software, that lets us know where were at by placing an arrow on a map the points in the direction we are moving, and also lets us know how long it will take to get to our target. It also equipped with a anemometer for measuring wind speed, and a scanner for scanning law enforcement, ham radio, and local NOAA weather radio, first aid kit, and a JRC 2000 marine radar for live radar images that cover 24 miles.