[BWillie]

Originally Posted by arrowheadnation

To answer a few of the questions that popped up in this thread:

As others said, Dominator 3 has hydraulics that lower it to the ground, but on top of that it has spikes that shoot into the ground to further anchor it.

Someone mentioned that it was underwhelming. Yes it was and that was by design. Direct hit intercepts are ideally only underwhelming (I mean...it's still taking a direct hit from a tornado). When he makes the choice to go for the direct impact or not, he takes into account estimated wind speeds and the amount of debris in the area that could damage, impale, or flip the vehicle. So basically, if the tornado is too violent, he won't chance it. I forget the exact numbers but the Dominator can only withstand like 200mph winds before it flips. This particular tornado had estimated 160mph winds and was in open pastures which made it perfect (hence the power poles not even getting knocked down).

There was mention of the two "impatient" people behind the Dominator. This wasn't a case of impatience. It was a case of stupidity. They were following Reed thinking "this guy knows what he's doing. We'll follow him and stay out of harms way." When he came to that abrupt stop, they had no clue it was to intercept the tornado so they had to hightail it out of there. They got extremely lucky that this was not a super violent tornado or it probably would have sucked them in and killed them.

So this was like a weak F3 'nado?