Reed Timmer
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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We have the beautiful scenery of Tornado Alley right now as we're driving through Oklahoma toward West Texas.
But I love seeing the storms and the tornado genesis process up close, sometimes from underneath.
And looking up at the base of the storm and you see that clear slot cut into the mesocyclone, tightening up the rotation, and then you see the tornado descend down on top of you.
It's just incredible that the combination of instability and wind shear in the environment can create this perfectly organized supercell storm that's just the perfect balance of inflow and outflow and organizes into a tornado vortex.
but also a vortex that causes so many problems in the dark side that they leave behind.
That's the damage and destruction and definitely mitigating risk out here constantly is a big thing that we do as storm chasers, especially when we're trying to get inside of the tornado in a tank-like vehicle like the Dominator.
But all of those things, the challenges of surviving the tornado, recording the data inside of it, that provide a better understanding of something that does cause a lot of problems here in Tornado Alley and beyond now.
Yeah, there are so many parallels between our different communities, and that's why I look forward to speaking with the PCI Security Standards Council at Fort Worth coming up this fall in September.
And we are constantly mitigating risk out here at Storm Chasers in the short term and in the long term.
just intercepting tornadoes, reading the sky, seeing how strong the tornado is in real time.
That's what we're trying to do with our science mission as well by launching rockets into these tornadoes and air cannons and miniaturized sensors as we're trying to get a real-time intensity estimate of the tornado so that we can warn people downstream
and so that we can take certain precautions as well on our end when we're intercepting the tornado.
And there are so many parallels between cybersecurity, your industry, and preventing potential threats, whether it be a tornado or a computer virus, things like that.
So there are just so many parallels between our industries.
Even right now, we're trying to mitigate risk just by driving down the road and keeping it between the mustard and the mayonnaise, going down I-44 toward our target area.
When we're intercepting the tornado, we have penetrating spikes that go into the ground that anchor us to the ground inside of the tornado.
So we use those methods depending on the tornado intensity.
And just a couple of weeks ago, we were inside of a tornado, and I failed to deploy the spikes, and the tornado actually rotated us 100 degrees inside of the tornado.
So that was an example of a breach in our security a little bit there against the tornadoes.
But there are definitely lots of parallels.
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