Reed Timmer

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Coffee with the Council By PCI Security Standards Council · Coffee with the Council Podcast: Meet This Year’s North America Community Meeting Keynote Speaker, Reed Timmer · 23 Jun 2025 podcast

Thank you so much for having me right in the rocket seat of the Dominator 3.

Well, certainly a storm chaser or an extreme meteorologist.

I like to be out of the field.

I like to see the tornadoes up close and personal, if not from the inside, and also record scientific data inside of the tornado.

That's the whole purpose of the Dominator vehicle that I'm inside right now.

It's a tank-like vehicle that gets inside of the tornado, and we can measure data inside, like wind speed and thermodynamics, and better understand these powerful tornadoes from the inside.

Well, starting at about the age of five, I've been obsessed with severe weather.

And I had a tornado experience growing up in Michigan back in 1985.

And ever since then, I've just been really passionate about storms and the science of storms.

And I definitely grew up a major science nerd, too.

I was in Science Olympiad all through school.

I collected insects.

I identified trees, I was into herpetology, snakes and lizards, things like that.

But weather was always my deep-rooted passion and I would always wait for severe weather to arrive.

And once I got my driver's license, I realized I didn't have to wait for it to come to me anymore and I could drive after the storms and experience a lot more severe weather.

And then I moved to Oklahoma to study meteorology and a storm chase and saw my first tornado in 1998 during a big fall outbreak as a freshman down there.

And then saw an F5 from underneath an overpass later that spring as my first experience up close to a tornado.

And I've been chasing storms ever since, nonstop, driving about 100,000 miles every year.

And now we're actually on our way to West Texas for a storm chase later on today.

Well, I definitely love being a naturalist and seeing all the scenery out here.

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