Some people are clearly not taking the myriads of tornado warnings being dished out every other day seriously.
While the most sensible thing to do is to run miles away from an approaching tornado, some thrill seekers are doing their best to get as close to it as possible. Case in point is filmmaker Sean Casey who has created heavy-duty custom vehicles that can stand up to the high winds of a tornado. Two of the flagship storm-chasing vehicles are the Tornado Intercept Vehicle 1 (TIV 1) and Tornado Intercept Vehicle 2 (TIV 2).
Both vehicles were designed to film with an IMAX camera within or very close to a tornado. Below is a test video shot from inside the TIV as they drove straight toward a violent wedge tornado in Kansas.
Before the winds ripped the instruments off the roof of the vehicle the winds were registering at 150 to 175 miles per hour.