This isn't immediately evident, though, if homemade tornado videos are playing somewhere nearby. At a stormchaser barbecue last week, I was in a crowded room with a whole crop of experienced chasers, all of whom were silently transfixed by a series of fuzzy tornado videos. I had wandered in to a strange, meteorological variant of a bad Beavis and Butt-Head episode. Twister had a pretty great soundtrack, with lots of thumping music during the chases. A crackly AM radio.
Chasers often tune to AM to eavesdrop on nearby lightning, which produces static.
And most stormchasers have memorized the AM stations in each region that are most reliable in issuing tornado warnings. As a result, you're stuck with a musical format that might not be of your choosing. I listened to a lot of country and western. That was scary. My most memorable chase was on a day in which no tornadoes were reported.