An EF4 tornado went through the town the next morning, and the team helped rescue people from the rubble. The day before the Yazoo City tornado of April 24, 2010, Timmer and colleague Joel Taylor got into a heated argument as to whether or not to make the trip. The incident was documented as part of the Storm Chasers TV series. Timmer and Chris Chittick suffered lacerations to the face from the flying glass. Its exterior Lexan window failed to roll up. While chasing storms in 2009 in Aurora, Nebraska, a tornado strengthened while passing over the Dominator and blew out the driver's window. In December 2022, Timmer purchased a 2016 Subaru Forester to replace Dominator Fore. The car was later found battered, and was no longer drivable, although attempts to fix it are ongoing. In September 2022, Timmer posted on Twitter that he had abandoned Dominator Fore to the storm surge of Hurricane Ian while tracking the storm at Pine Island, Florida.

Dominator Fore featured an increasing number of hail stone dents in its factory sheet metal body, and undergoes several windshield replacements each year due to Reed's attraction to sitting under what he refers to as Gorilla Hail storms. With a heavy presence on Twitter, Reed was often found chasing in his 2018 Subaru Forester, donning the name Dominator Fore. When storms approach, hydraulic systems lower the vehicle to the ground and drive spikes 8 inches (20 cm) into the ground to prevent wind from getting underneath. This vehicle, named Dominator 3, began life as a Ford F-350 crew-cab pickup featuring a 16-gauge body strengthened with a polyethylene Kevlar composite, thick Lexan windows, and gull-wing doors to repel hail. Dominator 3 Ī third Dominator vehicle debuted in late April 2013. In early 2011, Timmer and other members of TVN purchased a 2011 GMC Yukon XL, which would be the base vehicle for a second Dominator vehicle named Dominator 2. The first Dominator was a modified 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe that was used during the 2008 storm-chasing season and debuted in the 2009 chase season. Timmer created several chase vehicles, each called the Dominator. Timmer left AccuWeather in October 2019 to become a content creator for weather forecasts and storm chasing, mostly on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Timmer was a storm chaser for KFOR-TV's 4WARN Storm Team, with his SRV Dominator 2 as 4WARN Dominator 4. Timmer also appeared in a 2004 episode of Nova.

He was featured in an interview on a bonus feature for the Into the Storm Blu-ray. Timmer followed severe weather with his team in their vehicle, the SRV Dominator.

In 2015, at the age of 35, Timmer completed his PhD in meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. In October of that year, he filmed his first tornado. In 1998, after graduating from Forest Hills Central High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Timmer began studying meteorology at the University of Oklahoma (OU). Later on, Timmer participated in the Science Olympiad competition in middle school and high school. Timmer became interested in the weather at a young age, after experiencing a severe thunderstorm that reportedly dropped golfball-sized hail in his yard. He also worked with Mike Theiss in the reality television series Storms Rising on Disney+.

He 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 series Tornado Chasers. Reed Timmer (born March 17, 1980) is an American meteorologist and storm chaser.

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