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Secrets of the Tornado
 
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Price: $29.95
Shipping Weight: 1.50 pounds
 
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Secrets of the Tornado

Secrets of the Tornado is our newest video. In the tradition of the Tornado Video Classics series, it contains the most spectacular and unusual chase or home video footage clips available since TVC III was completed.

Among the highlights, you'll see:
  • Video footage of a tornado taken from an airplane flying so close that you can just about reach out and touch it.
  • Unedited video taken with studio quality equipment on May 27th in Jarrell, Texas, and later, the damage in Jarrell taken from a helicopter.
  • Incredibly intense, window-smashing, howling-wind video from Cedar Park, Texas, a few minutes after the Jarrell tornado, in a home that is receiving a direct hit while the camcorder continues taping. Afterwards, you tour the neighborhood with the videographer.
  • The entire raw footage of the Dillocam , on the supplemental tape that you receive free with your Secrets of the Tornado purchase. This remarkable video is available nowhere else. In Sumner County, Kansas, a camcorder in a specially designed, armadillo-shaped casing weighed down with 70 pounds of lead was placed directly in the path of an oncoming tornado. For the first time, the entire passage of the funnel was recorded on videotape. This was the culmination of a year of planning, building, and design by one of the leading storm chasing guides. It was a remarkable achievement, and is a Secrets of the Tornado exclusive.
  • Near that same tornado, a portable seismograph(a "snail") was deployed in front of a tornado for the first time...another Secrets of the Tornado exclusive.
  • A Wisconsin storm chaser and his kids, recently back from their high-mileage chase vacation on the Plains, chase the powerful F5 Oakfield tornado right in their own "back yard".
  • A big, red, dusty Texas tornado passes just a few hundred feet in front of a storm chasing tour group van.
  • Add to this a few of the "closest calls" ever from inside cars, a pick-up truck chase of an F5 in Tennessee, and footage from South Dakota to the Ozark Mountains, and you have an unforgettable video experience. Now with closed captions... for the hearing impaired, for the times you have to hit the "mute" button on your TV, and for the times you need an "interpreter" to determine what people are saying!
But that is not all!
At last there is a source of information that shows you how to build tornado machines(more properly called tornado simulators), of almost any size. Using physical models (simulators), Secrets of the Tornado give you a unique perspective on tornado formation. You'll learn about the basic kinds of tornadoes, and how they might be triggered. It has taken us 3 years of research and development to achieve these goals:
  • Uncover the secrets of building and operating tornado simulators
  • Simplify the building process, making it easy for even inexperienced people to build spectacular tornado models
  • Make the tornado models interactive, so that scientific experimentation can be performed on them
  • Show how the model tornadoes are similar (and different) from the real thing
  • Combine all of the above with the great new tornado footage to create fascinating video production
We think that we have achieved all of these goals in Secrets of the Tornado!

Here is what some of our customers have told us about the new video!

And only from The Tornado Project! With your purchase of Secrets of the Tornado for $29.95 in the US (additional charge for shipping elsewhere), you will receive an additional two hour videotape!
This supplemental tape contains additional tornado footage, as well as three full length historic films in the tradition of the Tornado Video Classics series. You are now in our online store, and can order via our secure server, but if you prefer, you can call and order over the phone at (802) 748-2505, or you can print and fill out out text order form and fax or send it to us via snail mail.
We now have sets that include various combinations of videos with Secrets! You can see them by clicking on 'Video on the navigation menu on the upper left hand side of this page, then scrolling on down the page past the individual videos.
PAL system cassettes are available for European and Australian VCRs. Check out the comments from some of our customers!