You’re driving down the interstate in southeast Wyoming in June when you see a black armored vehicle that looks like something from a Mad Max movie.
It’s freak-out huge, 14,000 pounds of metal with a 360-degree turret on top, capable of speeds up to 90 mph.
Is this vehicle even street legal? Or has the space-time continuum to an apoplectic parallel universe been ripped open?
Nope, the angular black tank is indeed street legal, and the fabric of the universe is still intact — as the big, blocky letters on the side of this monster vehicle hint at. “ Stormchasers.com ,” it says in fading white letters.
This is the Tornado Intercept Vehicle 2 (TIV2), made famous by IMAX filmmaker Sean Casey’s 2009-2011 Discovery Channel series “Storm Chasers.”
As for what it’s doing in Wyoming, which bo

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