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World wide, tornadoes occur approximately 1,500 times each year. The United States has 75% of those occurrences or about 1,200 to 1,300.

Of those 75% there are 10-15 tornadoes that cause $1 Billion dollars damage EACH.

In recent years (2020-2024) tornadoes in the United States caused 2,520 deaths. Total damages from these events exceeded $746 Billion.

During 2025, in just the United States, there were at least 276 deaths and $115 Billion dollars in property damage caused by severe storms. Primarily tornados as there were no land-falling hurricanes.

Human beings have struggled with Mother Nature’s “wild” side for countless millennia. We built dams to "control" flood damage; made first from dirt then later concrete. We built structures and machinery to increase food production and improve transportation capabilities to better our quality of life. We have extracted minerals and fossil fuels to build and power our society.

All well and good, but to date, has anything been tried, with any effectiveness, to “control” severe storms? The answer is NO! Even attempts at localized control have failed. Large scale control has not even been attempted.

StormTamers envisions processes that can be applied to all storm types in a way that will decrease their strength and therefore their potential damage.

How? By using airplanes in a unique manner that will interfere with storm formation thereby decreasing their strength and potential to cause death and destruction.

"No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered." -- Winston Churchill

Today we have the technological ability to significantly reduce the death toll and catastrophic property damage and destruction caused by severe storms, including tornadoes and hurricanes!

Researching storms to increase our understanding of storm formation IS NOT our goal! We have developed processes that will signicantly reduce storm intensity BEFORE the storm becomes fully formed and unstoppable.

Successfully interfering with a storm's formation will stop its creation and prevent all death and destruction from ever occurring.

Incoming storm fronts provide smooth airflows that help build storms and also maintain a storms' strength and ferocity once formed. Newly formed storms could last just minutes or many hours and even days.

Wind intensity and local terrain characteristics greatly determines storm creation. However, severe storms do not form nine out of ten times given what appears to be the same conditions and area.

Severe storms rarely form in areas that naturally provide smooth airflow obstacles. Mountainous regions, heavily forested areas and downtown cities with large buildings seldom have severe storms. Surely this is evidence that blocking or interfering with wind flows alters storm formation.

Therefore, we intend on artificially interfering with those airflows which will stop the formation of the storm's "engine". Thus preventing storms forming into self-sustaining dangerous levels.

How? By using multiple airplanes that will create airborne obstacles that will block the smooth incoming airflows from becoming storms.

We'll use multiple aircraft flying together to "mix up" the incoming airflows feeding the storm. Multiple aircraft flying in formation, either as a group or one after the other, at different altitudes, speeds and orientation relative to the airflows will provide sufficient disruption to block each storm type's formation.

Thus, our idea DOES NOT require any breakthrough technologies before implementing. We will apply these procedures in a unique manner for each storm type BEFORE the storm becomes unmanageable to reduce the storm's intensity or even eliminate the storm altogether!

Initially we'll use multiple, piloted airplanes working as a team to provide the desired disruption to the incoming airflows. As our coverage area expands it will be more economical and timely to have unpiloted airplane swarms operating out of multiple airfields. The technology currently exists to perform these tasks.

Got a bigger storm? Use more airplanes!!!

"Impossible only means that you haven’t found the solution yet." -- Anonymous

The Plan

Our initial proof of concept will be conducted on waterspouts for several reasons. They occur frequently in a known, concentrated area off the west coast of Florida. Since waterspouts form over the ocean there will be minimal terrain variance and very limited debris contained within and around the waterspout. Our testing will be based out of airport locations close to or within the chosen testing area to minimize flight times.

Waterspouts are reported 400-500 times per year in this area, primarily May through September with many more undocumented.

Testing will require a minimum of 2 aircraft, one for the actual incursions, the other to document the results. Cirrus SR20 aircraft should provide the needed capabilities for this testing. These aircraft cost around $500,000 each and can be rented for $300 per hour plus hiring a pilot at $200 per hour. Depending upon waterspout occurrences and testing results, two weeks lodging will be required. With a minimum of 4 people total charges will be over $9,000.

Next, we'll establish a test base in Colorado where severe storms and tornadoes frequently occur. This base will be where we'll bring together the aircraft and flight and maintenance teams for the mission. For each storm type we'll plan each test flight taking into account the time of day, altitude and expected storm intensity.

Cost Summary & Benefits

Initially, aircraft procurement, recruiting both flight and maintenance crews will be the largest expenditures. Each aircraft will be over $500,000. Needing at least 6 in the beginning. As our successes grow we'll need more aircraft operating out of more locations to increase our coverage "protection" area.

At full scale, we may need more than 70 aircraft. Over $35 million dollars just in aircraft procurement costs. Add in a like amount for flight and maintenance crews plus location specific and fuel costs, the total will exceed $100 million dollars!

However, if we prevent or even significantly reduce the damage caused by just one Billion dollar storm...it's well worth it! Ten percent of $1,000,000,000 is $100 million dollars. And that's just ONE storm!

There was over $115 Billion dollars damage just in one year (2025). Since the same planes can go on multiple missions during the year, the cost of this service is less than one tenth of one percent (.1%) of the years' damage.

Plus, possibly saving over 500 lives per year!

Let's do it!

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"All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem." -- Robert H. Schuller

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