Then she's stopped for speeding by the town's boyish assistant police chief, John Tyler. The wind and siren are howling and a deluge is on its way, but Bose is unable to find her driver's license. With the local universe about to end, Tyler gives up and tells her to bring it to his office tomorrow. In Kansas, fleeing a tornado is not an excuse for going 43 in a 30 mph zone. By the time Bose and Bender catch up with the Winnebago, the storm is raging in full fury.
Visibility is near zero.
Sheets of rain are being blown parallel to the ground. Water is ponding on the roads. The radio is reporting tornadoes to their north and east. Thirty miles west of Ponca City, near Lamont, Okla., a half-dozen homes and barns are being smashed by a tornado almost half a mile wide. Parked in the storm of their lifetimes along a dark country road west of Arkansas City, the chase team has no idea where the funnels are, just that they are all around them.