Storm Chasers (TV series)
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Season 4 title screen shot of Storm Chasers
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| Genre |
Documentary Reality Weather |
| Created by | Sean Casey Joshua Wurman Reed Timmer Tim Samaras Tony Laubach Carl Young Matt Grzych Brandon Ivey Matt Hughes Chris Chittick Byron Turk Charlie Corwin Brian Nashel Ronan Nagle Jay Peterson |
| Starring |
Sean Casey Joshua Wurman Reed Timmer Tim Samaras Tony Laubach Carl Young Matt Grzych Brandon Ivey Matt Hughes Joel Taylor Chris Chittick Byron Turk |
| Opening theme | "Blaze of Glory" by Bon Jovi (season 3–4) |
| Composer(s) | Didier Rachou |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 36 (list of episodes) |
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| Executive producer(s) | Charlie Corwin Brian Nashel Ronan Nagle Jay Peterson |
| Location(s) | United States |
| Running time | 45 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Original Media |
| Distributor | Discovery Communications |
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| Original network | Discovery Channel |
| Original release | October 17, 2007 – November 10, 2011 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Tornado Intercept (2005) on the National Geographic Channel |
| Followed by | The Science of Storm Chasing (2007) on the Science Channel |
| External links | |
| Website | |
| Production website | |
Storm Chasers is an American documentary reality television series that premiered on October 17, 2007, on the Discovery Channel. Produced by Original Media, the program follows several teams of storm chasers as they attempt to intercept tornadoes in Tornado Alley in the United States. The show was canceled at the end of its 5th season by Discovery Communications on January 21, 2012.
Storm Chasers was filmed each year in the central United States (an area known as Tornado Alley due to the frequency and severity of tornadoes occurring there) primarily during late spring and early summer, the time of the most frequent tornado activity (though some episodes of recent seasons have also been filmed in the lesser-known Dixie Alley in the southeastern U.S.). Several teams of storm chasers appear in the series. During the 2007 and 2008 seasons Dr. Joshua Wurman, a renowned atmospheric scientist and creator of the Doppler On Wheels (DOW), teamed with documentary IMAX filmmaker Sean Casey. Wurman's goal is to collect tornado data in order to improve warnings systems, while Casey's goal is to film footage inside a tornado using his armored Tornado Intercept Vehicle (TIV).
The TIV crew was led by Casey and Marcus Gutierrez, Driver and rescue Medic who took over Ronan's job as driver of the series, and Byron Turk, navigator and a shooter/producer for the show. The TIV was outfitted with weather instruments which collect data from approximately 12 feet above ground that, when combined with the DOW radar imagery and the probe data, can help to give Josh a more complete picture of a tornado's structure. Casey produced/directed his second IMAX feature about tornadoes. The first, Forces of Nature, was released in 2003 with a third of the film dedicated to tornadoes, the other two thirds were dedicated to volcanoes and earthquakes. Ronan is an executive producer on the film entitled, Tornado Alley, with the release on March 18, 2011.
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