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Reed Timmer (born March 17, 1980) is an American meteorologist and storm chaser. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he took an interest in science, including weather, at a young age, before experiencing severe weather, including a hailstorm at age 13. After presenting weather forecasts at his high school, he began studying meteorology at the University of Oklahoma, completing his PhD in 2015. During his storm chasing career, Timmer filmed his first tornado in 1998 in Oklahoma before taking part in numerous chases of tornadoes. Timmer then observed the 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado, a year after his first tornado filmed, the 2011 Philadelphia, Mississippi and Tuscaloosa–Birmingham tornadoes, which were included in the 2011 Super Outbreak, and the 2013 El Reno tornado, an EF3 tornado which he was injured in. In 2022, he chased and filmed the eyewall of Category 5 Hurricane Ian. Timmer is known for starring in the Discovery Channel reality television series Storm Chasers, as well as in the documentary film Tornado Glory and in the television series Tornado Chasers. He later appeared as a guest star in Jay Leno's Garage in an episode, and Storm Rising as himself with Mike Theiss, another storm chaser. Early life Timmer was born on March 17, 1980 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has an older sister, Cortney, and a younger sister, Dayna, and Timmer's parents divorced when he was 10 years old. He took an interest in science at a young age, including insects and weather, and was often bullied because of it. He also played the oboe, which he had a music scholarship in, and watched The Weather Channel continuously. Timmer's first experience with storms was at the age of 5, during a tornado warned-storm which he described as chaotic while also being "scared to death", in part of his fear of thunder and lightning. He also experienced a hailstorm at the age of 13, which he called his first "storm chase", and resulted in his family's video camera being destroyed after attempting to capture it. Timmer presented weather forecasts at his high school in Grand Rapids, Forest Hills Central, while also participating in the Science Olympiad competition in both middle school and high school. He also became an Eagle Scout in 1995, the highest rank of a Boy Scout. In 1998, after graduating from his high school, Timmer began studying meteorology at the University of Oklahoma (OU), completing his PhD in 2015, at the age of 35. Storm chasing career Timmer frequently drives more than 50,000 miles (80,000 km) a year to intercept severe thunderstorms. 1998–2010: First filmed tornado, Dominator 1 On October 4, 1998, Timmer filmed his first tornado in Perry, Oklahoma, which he recalled that he didn't "didn't feel like it could kill me, but I was mesmerized". While as a freshman at Oklahoma University, Timmer began storm chasing on May 3, 1999, where he encountered the Bridge Creek–Moore tornado, forcing him and three friends to take shelter under a highway overpass. The EF5 tornado was ultimately recorded as one of the strongest tornadoes ever, with Timmer characterizing it as "overwhelming". On June 24, 2003, Timmer intercepted an EF4 tornado that directly hit Manchester, South Dakota. On May 12, 2004, while chasing a tornado, the vehicle he was in lost control on an unpaved road and crashed into a sewage ditch, destroying his computer equipment, which was uninsured. A year later, in June 2005, Timmer chased a tornado east of Madelia, Minnesota, and Hurricane Katrina in August that year, with the latter event's flooding and storm surge he described as "intimidating". In 2006, Timmer starred in the documentary film Tornado Glory, along with Joel Taylor, another Oklahoma University meteorology student and storm chaser who was Timmer's friend. Soon after, Timmer constructed the Dominator 1, as part of the SRV Dominator series, which was modified from a 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe for use in the TV series Storm Chasers beginning in October 2007. On June 5, 2009, Timmer filmed inside a tornado near LaGrange, Wyoming in Dominator 1, also recording a wind speed of 155.2 miles per hour (249.8 km/h). On June 17 that same year, he chased an EF2 tornado near Aurora, Nebraska, where a vortex inside the tornado blew out a window, resulting in Timmer and photographer Chris Chittick suffering lacerations to his face. He also recorded a wind speed of 138.8 miles per hour (223.4 km/h), and the tornado, along with Timmer's chase, were included in a Storm Chasers episode. On April 24, 2010, Timmer chased an EF4 tornado that struck Yazoo City, Mississippi, where he and Joel Taylor conducted efforts to rescue victims in the aftermath of the tornado. He later stated that it was "definitely one of the biggest tornadoes I've ever seen". In the same year, he and Andrew Tilin wrote a book titled Into the Storm: Violent Tornadoes, Killer Hurricanes, and Death-Defying Adventures in Extreme Weather, which details Timmer's storm chasing experiences. 2011–2018: Super Outbreak, cancellation of Storm Chasers, death of Joel Taylor On April 27, 2011, during the 2011 Super Outbreak, Timmer observed four destructive wedge tornadoes across eastern Mississippi and Alabama, including tornadoes that impacted Philadelphia, Mississippi and Tuscaloosa–Birmingham. At the time, Timmer stated that the severe weather event was "hands down the most unforgettable day", while also describing the amount of tornadoes as "heartbreaking" and "overwhelming". The severe weather event was premiered as an episode as part of Storm Chasers, titled "Tornado Rampage 2011". In the same year, Timmer built the heavily-armored Dominator 2, modifying it from a GMC Yukon XL. In 2012, Storm Chasers, the television series that Timmer starred in, was cancelled following declining ratings. In the television series, Timmer also followed severe weather with his TornadoVideos.net team in a SRV Dominator vehicle, the team of which consisted of Timmer, photographer Chris Chittick, and driver Joel Taylor. After the cancellation of Storm Chasers, Timmer then starred in another television series, Tornado Chasers. On April 14 that year, Timmer chased the Arnett–Woodward, Oklahoma tornado which would ulimately result in six deaths and 28 injuries. A year later, in 2013, Timmer was injured after chasing the 2013 El Reno tornado for KFOR-TV, which ultimately killed four storm chasers, including Tim Samaras. On May 28, three days before the El Reno tornado, Timmer chased an erratic-moving, EF4 tornado near Bennington, Kansas, which he recalled it as "probably the most powerful, most intimidating tornado that I've ever chased". On October 4, 2013, Timmer was hospitalized after suffering a seizure while storm chasing in Nebraska as part of the KFOR-TV weather team. According to Timmer, it was his second seizure. In the same year, Timmer constructed a third vehicle, the Dominator 3, modifying it from a 2013 Ford F-350 Super Duty pickup truck and weighing 11,000 pounds (5,000 kg). He c.... Discover the Terri Reed popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Terri Reed books.