Batten down the hatches and brace yourself for In the Eye of the Storm . Discovery’s new series brings viewers inside some of the wildest weather and deadliest natural disasters as they happen in real time. This is thanks to footage captured by eyewitnesses, many of whom revisit these intense, and for some, traumatic experiences.
The premiere episode, “Trapped in a Twister,” delves into a rare tornado outbreak in the Midwest last year. A trail of devastation was left in Rolling Fork, Mississippi, Little Rock, Arkansas, and Cole and Shawnee, Oklahoma. Tanner Charles, a storm chaser, found he and a group of tornado spotters got more than they bargained for when a twister hit Lewistown, Illinois.
By the time the car full of friends realized they were inside the tornado, it was too late. Here, Charles opens up about what he went through and how it changed his life forever. How did you come to be part of the show? Tanner Charles: When I released the tornado footage, it was in October.
I actually waited six months before releasing the footage of what happened on April 4. Me and the other guys wanted time to understand what exactly happened to us. We took a break from storm chasing.
The footage is pretty traumatic. We didn’t just want to put it out there for everyone to see without a plan involved. There were definitely conversations about not even showing the footage to anyone.
We knew the footage would get a lot of traction. So, are we ready to handle that kind of attentio.