The Chasers of Tornado Alley: Touching the Sky

How it feels

A filmmaker and storm chaser takes viewers inside the experience of pursuing tornadoes. The film shows the raw power of severe storms and the people who study them up close.

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What happens

Martin Lisius is an American filmmaker and storm chaser. He founded StormStock, a weather and climate stock footage collection, in 1993, and Tempest Tours, a storm chasing expedition company, in 2000. In 2018, he produced and directed the short film, Prairie Wind, among the first known 16K resolution videos to exist. In 1993, Lisius founded the Texas Severe Storms Association (TESSA), a non-profit whose mission is "to bring together both professional meteorologists and weather enthusiasts in an attempt to better understand dangerous storms through the collection and diffusion of knowledge." Lisius was a nominee for 2023 Footage Person of the Year, an award presented by FOCAL International. In 2024, he was elected to the FOCAL International Executive Board. FOCAL is a professional non-profit organization based in London, England which represents footage and content libraries, archive producers, researchers, consultants and facility companies in over 30 countries. Lisius was nominated again for FOCAL Footage Person of the Year in 2026. Lisius is listed on the Notable Alumni web page for the Department of Communication at the University of Texas at Arlington. As a filmmaker, Lisius has contributed content for use in productions for the Discovery Channel, Weather Channel, National Geographic Channel, and the Academy Award-winning "An Inconvenient Truth" (2006). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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