……that returns Sunday on The Discovery Channel. The first episode airs at 9 p.m. Central Daylight Time, and continues for seven more weeks.
“A lot of blood, sweat and tears went into this show,” Byron Turk, who was the navigator for a Tornado Intercept Vehicle, or TIV, said in an e-mail. “Lots of miles traveled, horrible gas station lunches, and deadly weather. It was a blast to say the least.”
It was an active tornado season in Kansas, and at least two episodes in the series feature story lines in the state: The Nov. 2 episode includes a return to Greensburg on the first anniversary of the tornado that virtually destroyed the Kiowa County town, and the Nov. 23 episode follows the chasers as they pursue tornadoes in western Kansas.