in late february 2013, tvn launched a kickstarter campaign to fund a second season of "tornado chasers". the campaign was enormously successful, almost doubling the original goal. production commenced on april 5, 2013. this season saw the return of joel taylor (albeit briefly) to the team, and reed became a field correspondent for the kfor-tv storm team in oklahoma city. a new dominator vehicle, "dominator 3," joined the fleet and featured the latest vehicle intercept technology. jim cantore from the weather channel also joined timmer in the dominator for some of the bigger tornado events, and ginger zee from abc news joined timmer's team for the may 20, 2013 moore tornado event. the tvn team also runs into tim samaras, paul samaras, and carl young days before the multiple-vortex tornado took their lives.