Tornado Alley is an explosive IMAX adventure that takes viewers on an epic chase through the "severe weather capital of the world." Narrated by Bill Paxton, the film follows Storm Chasers star Sean Casey and the scientists of VORTEX 2--the largest tornado-research project ever assembled--on separate missions to encounter one of Earth's most awe-inspiring events: the birth of a tornado. Whirling above the human drama are the storms themselves; magnificent forces of nature revealed in breathtaking detail through the magic of Michigan’s largest screen, making this heart-pounding film one of the most eagerly anticipated IMAX releases of the decade.
Filmed across America's Plain states where three-quarters of the world's tornadoes occur, Tornado Alley follows veteran storm chasers on two unprecedented missions. Carrying a 92 lb. IMAX camera that belonged to his father, director Sean Casey and his crew race after storms in the TIV-2, a seven-ton armored "Tornado Intercept Vehicle" engineered and built by Casey to withstand the impact of the gale force winds at a tornado's core. Casey’s goal that drives him into relentless super-cell storms? To navigate the TIV-2 directly into the heart of a tornado and capture its beauty and destructive power on film at point-blank range