This morning, I pulled up to work parked my car and headed towards the front door of the hotel just like I do every single workday. As I made a dash towards the doors this larger than life vehicle is parked right in front of the Double Tree's front door! It took me a second to figure out what I was looking at it.

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Turns out this incredibly impressive vehicle is the known as the SRV Dominator 3 and is a heavily modified, tornado proof storm chaser vehicle. A well know extreme meteorologist and storm chaser Reed Timmer is the gentleman behind the wheel.

"The SRV Dominator is a series of tornado interceptors owned, operated, and maintained by meteorologist Reed Timmer, with funding partially provided by AccuWeather and the Discovery Channel. The Dominator Series consists of the Dominator 1, a modified 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe, the Dominator 2, a modified 2011 GMC Yukon XL, the Dominator 3, a modified 2012 Ford F-350 Super Duty, and Dominator Fore, a name utilized for three different Subaru Foresters, two of which have since been totaled." - Wikipedia 

With the recent tornados touching down around the state they are here to chase them down! So if you happen to see this around town or even around the state now you know exactly who it is and what they do!

Did you know there is a website you can track Tornados in real time with?! Sure is! Tornado Path is a real time warning system check it out!