Building a Tornado Chasing Car

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  • Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
  • Watch Sean Waugh, a student researcher at the National Severe Storms Laboratory, mod a minivan into a "mesonet" or tornado chasing car.

Комментарии • 57

  • @AyyItsJk
    @AyyItsJk 5 лет назад +17

    I was about to say that this was before WIRED got famous! Geez was I right!

  • @lightningjim
    @lightningjim 14 лет назад +9

    Woah. I didn't realize that this made it's way onto Wired Mag's YT account. Great job, Sean!

  • @ArkeAngelRevonulet
    @ArkeAngelRevonulet 15 лет назад +8

    Cool vid! A list of equipment involved should have been in the video. Or maybe in a part two video perhaps??

  • @asianinashed
    @asianinashed 4 года назад +7

    Nice you guys used one of the most unsafe minivans to build a storm chaser

  • @JacanaProductions
    @JacanaProductions 14 лет назад +5

    Excellent, love the music too. What about heat, I assume you have a fan or duct from the aircon unit? Bigger alternator for the external battery too?

  • @BinkieMcFartnuggets
    @BinkieMcFartnuggets 15 лет назад +8

    Tornadoes don't like being chased, that's primarily why they cause all the destruction they do.

  • @DanielDaniel1
    @DanielDaniel1 11 лет назад +6

    All I would do is put a damn good roll cage in and seats with a five point harness. This is just overkill

    • @leadaviation6383
      @leadaviation6383 4 года назад

      DanielDaniel1 there’s a lot more to it than just a rollcage and five point harnesses. It depends on if your actually going Into the tornado or not.

    • @justinthelightguy1936
      @justinthelightguy1936 4 года назад

      @@leadaviation6383 RFD winds can flip a vehicle easily over. So yes, a roll cage would be perfect just like in the tornado hunter's Ford F150

    • @ryanthomas8876
      @ryanthomas8876 4 года назад

      Hey the more safety the better.

  • @thermodynamicist
    @thermodynamicist 15 лет назад +1

    I love that one poor guy did this whole job alone.

  • @msrxbabe
    @msrxbabe 8 лет назад +5

    my grandson loves tornadoes

  • @kd5gua
    @kd5gua 14 лет назад +1

    Cool video!

  • @kirisamevt
    @kirisamevt 9 лет назад +5

    I am definitely going to do this, but make my own special vehicle for storm chasing, and since I am a sophomore, I need to convince my parents to get me a car that I can, DESTROY BUILD DESTROY....

    • @pprophet
      @pprophet 5 лет назад

      Games with Matt well did you do it

    • @HazardousEnvironments
      @HazardousEnvironments 3 месяца назад +1

      Well did you do it? I see in ur channel you like storm chasing cuz you play Twisted. And you own a car now

  • @mayhanamin3538
    @mayhanamin3538 6 лет назад +2

    I just bought a 2005 dodge grand caravan and I want to use that as a storm chase car.. I did have an older caravan which was a 1997 and unfortunately it broke down and it was best that I got a newer one which is better. Any advices on what I should do with it?? Cause I do have and amber light strobe that I can attach when I go out storm chasing

  • @Hickeydog2365
    @Hickeydog2365 14 лет назад

    @TheCodyvideo
    You don't need a cable modem for a router to work. All the cable modem does is provide internet to the router. The router is simply a network "hub". It's responsible for distribution of connections. I suspect that they have either some sort of cell or other connection for internet.

  • @MikhailCherchenko
    @MikhailCherchenko 13 лет назад +2

    awesome!!

  • @JJamersonB
    @JJamersonB 14 лет назад +1

    Can i ask a list of all equipment that u installed or can anyone tell me

  • @VF1Skullangel
    @VF1Skullangel 13 лет назад +1

    Screw that. Go get an EVO!

  • @msrxbabe
    @msrxbabe 8 лет назад +1

    he plans on making a storm chaser vehicle

  • @MothraVsTheWorld
    @MothraVsTheWorld 11 лет назад +2

    it would be awesome if you narrated this ... tell us all your doing and why.

    • @HazardousEnvironments
      @HazardousEnvironments 3 месяца назад

      I can at least tell you why they did this.. This was most likely a scout car used in vortex 2 and deployed pods in front of tornados for measuring data

  • @at0mac
    @at0mac 15 лет назад

    Ehm... Now I'm not really into tornadoes - but what is the point in this?
    Is it a car that can record what is happening when a tornado strikes or what?

  • @fnordly
    @fnordly 15 лет назад

    net connection through cellphone as they drive around

  • @geekliberty
    @geekliberty 15 лет назад

    cool a wireless roughter in the circet board instalation?! why did they install that for?

  • @sejeffusa
    @sejeffusa 14 лет назад

    ok your hired. how much to do a install including all parts and labor?

  • @teentech101
    @teentech101 14 лет назад

    si was this like for a grade or what it looked like fun!

  • @viasevenvai
    @viasevenvai 15 лет назад

    forgot to mod the engine to even get to the storm.

  • @Sp8rk3y
    @Sp8rk3y 15 лет назад

    ROFL its a fucken expensive router looks like the new DLINK

  • @GSIBOSS
    @GSIBOSS 12 лет назад

    not good idea putting every electrical item in the floor of the car, what happens if you hit a flooded area?

    • @Jack-tu5zf
      @Jack-tu5zf 5 лет назад

      It is for chasing tornadoes, not hurricanes.

    • @josh_nado
      @josh_nado 4 года назад

      @@Jack-tu5zftornadoes are mostly associated with supercells and flooding can be very possible with the amount of downpour they produce, and if your driving on unsafe roads there could be a pothole a few feet wide full of rain water

  • @Guillaume554
    @Guillaume554 12 лет назад +1

    i mean "like". :)

  • @arthurmorgan192
    @arthurmorgan192 4 года назад +1

    Hello

  • @Blackrock18
    @Blackrock18 15 лет назад

    I thought he was going to make an armored car :(

  • @Flankeerrr
    @Flankeerrr 13 лет назад

    what did this guy smoke

  • @shuwinger
    @shuwinger 2 года назад +1

    Lol

  • @batman-cr7ml
    @batman-cr7ml 12 лет назад

    yea i will do that now

  • @Guillaume554
    @Guillaume554 12 лет назад

    For someone lime me who only know what's a tornado chasing car from " Storm chasers" i don't very understand the video.
    In fact it's like chinesse for me!

  • @adj789
    @adj789 15 лет назад

    well this is pretty lame, I though this was going to be a guy discussing and demonstrating equipment for storm chasing.

  • @VeEvey
    @VeEvey 15 лет назад

    No fucking firsts.

  • @S550Cole
    @S550Cole 10 лет назад

    The title makes no sense

    • @MaxOlsonChasing
      @MaxOlsonChasing 10 лет назад +2

      Yes it does, these mobile mesonet vehicles are used to collect measurements around tornadoes. Judging by the time this video was posted, I think this was used for the Vortex 2 opperation.

    • @DonaldHolben
      @DonaldHolben 8 лет назад +1

      +Max Olson Chasing Wow Vortex 2 have not heard that name in a while.

  • @willbean8731
    @willbean8731 8 лет назад

    what the fuck!???????? I'm with you....fuckit! for the greater good.\

    • @willbean8731
      @willbean8731 8 лет назад

      +will bean i'll die from cancer....i'd rather drive into a twister just to see what happens!

    • @stonerprobz3647
      @stonerprobz3647 7 лет назад

      will bean Did you die from driving in the twister yet?

  • @willbean8731
    @willbean8731 8 лет назад

    fuck it f5! people whent to the moon! An I cant spell worth shit

  • @obamasuckss
    @obamasuckss 4 месяца назад +1

    is that a tablet or laptop ? on the mount ?

  • @Flankeerrr
    @Flankeerrr 13 лет назад

    What did this guy smoke