Reed Timmer

Reed Timmer (born March 17, 1980) is an American meteorologist and storm chaser. He is known for starring in the Discovery Channel reality television series Storm Chasers, as well as in the documentary film Tornado Glory and in the series Tornado Chasers. He also worked with Mike Theiss in the reality television series Storms Rising on Disney+. Early life Timmer became interested in the weather at a young age, after experiencing a severe thunderstorm that reportedly dropped golfball-sized hail in his yard. Later on, Timmer participated in the Science Olympiad competition in middle school and high school. In 1998, after graduating from Forest Hills Central High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Timmer began studying meteorology at the University of Oklahoma (OU). In October of that year, he filmed his first tornado. In 2015, at the age of 35, Timmer completed his PhD in meteorology at the University of Oklahoma.