January 27th - October 4th, 2012
Traversing the “severe weather capital of the world”, Tornado Alley documents two unprecedented missions seeking to encounter one of Earth’s most awe-inspiring events – the birth of a tornado. Filmmaker Sean Casey’s personal quest to capture the birth of a tornado with a 70mm camera takes viewers on a breathtaking journey into the heart of the storm. A team of VORTEX 2 researchers, experience the relentless strength of nature’s elemental forces as they literally surround tornadoes and the super cell storms that form them, gathering the most comprehensive severe weather data ever collected. This science adventure reveals the beauty and the power of some of our planet’s most extreme- and least understood – weather phenomena.
