Yesterday Tornado Glory chasers Reed Timmer and Joel Taylor caught seven distinct tornadoes in the Texas Panhandle. The footage filmed by Reed Timmer and Tornado Glory director Ken Cole is currently being broadcast over all media channels.

Click here to see Reed and Joel being interviewed live on the Today Show - taped this morning!

Storm Season 2007 has officially kicked off with a bang. Tornado Glory chasers Reed and Joel caught three incredible tornadoes in New Mexico on 3/23. The video has been featured on CNN worldwide.

Everyone at Angry Sky Entertainment congratulates the guys on a job well done!

Well, that’s not to say that there won’t a tornado as strong as an F5, it just won’t be called an F5. That’s because there’s a new tornado scale called the “EF” scale - which stands for “Enhanced Fujita” scale.

Dr. Ted Fujita was the scientist who originally came up with the Fujita “F” Scale back in 1971. There were six possible categories, with F0 being the weakest and F5 being the strongest.

So why the new scale? Well, both scales rate tornadoes on how much damage they cause, with an F5 causing total destruction. Over time, scientists have learned that the wind estimates of the scale were too rough and generous - some buildings are built stronger than others, and it doesn’t necessarily take 250 mph winds to destroy a house.

So basically the scale needed to be adjusted and corrected, accounting for many different types of damage. And so we now have the EF Scale!

If you want more info on the EF scale and how tornadoes are now rated, check out this page.

Tornado Glory chasers Reed Timmer and Joel Taylor caught the first-ever EF-4 tornado on Feb. 28th, less than two weeks ago! Check out the video:

That’s a great question - tornadoes come in all shapes and sizes. They can be shaped like “stovepipes,” or “wedges” (wider than they are tall), or in their final phase they can look like “ropes” - very skinny. A great example of a “wedge” is the Manchester, SD tornado of June
24th, 2003. As seen in Tornado Glory, it grows to be over a mile wide, destroying trees and even a two-story house.

The biggest tornado on record is the May 22, 2004 tornado in Hallum, NE, which at its largest was 2.5 miles wide. As amazing and frightening as that sounds, our very own Reed Timmer actually drove through a portion of that tornado when it was in a weakened state.

A clip of this tornado is in Reed’s 2004 highlights video, available on YouTube [warning: adult language]:

Gearing up for Storm Season 2007, Tornado Glory will be airing on PBS during overnight hours in March. Check out your local PBS schedule for more info!