Topic: Tornado Intercept - Channel 7 tonight

[Michael Bath]

Mike - this thread is relating to the show which aired on Channel 7 / Prime 630pm Sat 17th Jan - not any recent ones on pay tv.

I would have assumed the program to be a couple of years old which is why I asked. Definitely no Reed Timmer in it. 2005 seems right from the footage and the lack of tornadoes during the time they chased.

MB

[Chris_M]

The program showed on Channel seven was an older episode where the TIV 1 was getting built in the start of it, what is confusing is that a few days earlier on Discovery (pay tv) they showed a later one where they where building the TIV 2

[Mike]

Oops - sorry I overlooked the thread title - 'channel 7'  Apologies everyone - I suffer from tunnel vision at times. 

Yes, I have seen that old series aired here with the old TIV and the like so totally agree with your assessments of dates.  The new series has only arrived on pay-tv.   I say no more for my part with fear of mucking things up again....

[FindTheTornado]

Just to add a little to this to maybe help, the new TIV 2 broke down right away, so they had to revert back to the old TIV. Word on the street is there is a TIV 3 in the works now for 2009. Also there isn't just one and only TIV... www.tornadoattack.com is a seperate entity who also has a tornado intercept vehicle if you will... it looks much like a race car, the man behind the machine used to build NASCAR chassis in the US for use in NASCAR

[Robert1984]

I saw the new episode tonight on channel 610 being Austar and surprisingly enough the TIV crew tried to chase a storm system to the east of them but it was going to fast so they went back to Josh and the DOW crew for forgiveness just for chasing the system on their own   :

[Mike]

There's been a bit of angst amongst the teams as to which way they should intercept.  Sean is desperate for some footage, Josh wants the data, the scouts need to deploy the probes and well, Reed is getting all the action...the season gets better I have read so keep watching!

[Robert1984]

I watched the latest episode and after so many breakdowns Sean and the TIV crew put TIV2 out of commission for an undefined period of time and bring back the original warhorse a.k.a TIV1

Even though Josh lead the team to New Mexico only to find out that where the crew were the night before got smashed by tornados the scouts,DOW and TIV1 bit more off more than they could chew being chased by menacing F4 Tornado of which TIV1 managed to score an intercept and Josh got very valuable data

[Colin Maitland]

They replayed tornado intercept this afternoon in Brisbane at 4.30pm on channel 7.
Everyone has 2005 and a funnel printed on their T shirts. When one of the chaser child is born they have 2005 tornado outfit for him.

Those DOW trucks were awesome, A couple of million dollars worth of equipment. I wonder if the doppler radar sitting on the back of the trucks and that close to the chasers would cause any sort of damage to their bodies. I missed the first ten minutes and dont know if the cabs were lined or what.