81K views · 2.1K reactions | Check out this video of Team Dominator launching rockets into tornadoes with air cannons worked into the outer shell of Dominator 2! This inspired the use of rockets in the movie Twisters by Tyler Owens. Never stop chasing | Reed Timmer Extreme Meteorologist | Facebook

Watch this historic rocket launch into a monster EF4 #tornado by the Team Dominator science team! This marked the first ever recording of wind and thermodynamics in 3D inside of a #tornado. We launched the rocket in perfect position within the inflow notch of this rain-wrapped wedge tornado near Lawrence, Kansas, and tracked the parachute probe as it was carried through the #tornado. @chasinspin is the scientist behind the sensors and live streaming technology that achieved success with this fir

ON THIS DAY, 3 years ago, Team Dominator was the first to launch a rocket into an EF4 #tornado south of Lawrence, KS with a miniaturized sensor probe in the nose cone. If interested, check out the preprint of our publication submitted to BAMS: https://osf.io/96xqz | Reed Timmer Extreme Meteorologist