Video: The TIV-2 is a 14,000-Pound Armored Dodge Ram Storm Chaser
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Video: The TIV-2 is a 14,000-Pound Armored Dodge Ram Storm Chaser



A tornado is a force of nature that almost nothing can withstand. Therefore, when Sean Casey decided to see what was going inside a tornado, he had to build a very special kind of vehicle. 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 on the Discovery Channel in October 2007, Casey and his team built the TIV-2 using a Dodge Ram 3500 as a base.

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