Eye of the Storm
Eye of the Storm is about storm chaser and weather photographer Warren Faidley. Faidley crosses the United States each year, following lightning storms, hurricanes, and tornadoes to capture them on film for his photo agency, Weatherstock. He became world-famous after photographing a lightning bolt that was the closest ever filmed.
Faidley follows weather patterns that happen at the same time, in the same areas, every year. In the summer, he stays near Arizona to photograph lightning storms in the desert. In the spring, he travels to Tornado Alley, which includes northern Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri. Faidley spends about six weeks there, tracking thunderstorms and looking for tornadoes. His truck, Shadow Chaser, has a video camera, radios, scanners, emergency flashing lights, electronic equipment, and a lot of maps.
Faidley writes in his diary about what happened one May day in Texas. For the first part of the day, he and his partner, Tom Willett, listen to weather reports and go to the National Weather Service for updates, to predict where the storms will be.
Faidley and Willett drive north toward a spot where a funnel cloud has been reported. After a few close calls, they see a white funnel cloud coming down. When it touches the ground, it becomes a tornado.
Faidley sets up his camera and takes pictures. There are two huge storms coming together and creating more tornadoes in the area. Through the evening, the storm chasers follow the storms into Oklahoma. Soon, it gets too dark to take any more photos. By the end of the day they have seen a total of seven tornadoes! Fortunately, there are no reports of any injuries.
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