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The TWISTEX crew and the vehicles on equipped with mobile mesonets. TWISTEX (a backronym for Tactical Weather-Instrumented Sampling in/near Tornadoes Experiment) was a tornado research experiment that was founded and led by Tim Samaras of Bennett, Colorado, US, that ended in the deaths of three researchers in the 2013 El Reno tornado. The ...
Even before it was known that Samaras, his son, and Young had been killed, the event led many to question storm-chasing tactics, particularly in close proximity to tornadoes. [27] In addition to the three TWISTEX members, the tornado killed five other people, including local resident Richard Charles Henderson, who had decided to follow the ...
The tornado was the costliest in Oklahoma history, leaving an estimated $2 billion (2013 USD) [3] worth of damages in its wake. Tornadoes in Oklahoma have broken numerous national and worldwide records. The widest tornado in history moved through rural farmland south of El Reno on May 31, 2013, reaching a maximum width of 4576 yd (4184 m).
Mobile doppler weather radars have been used on dozens of scientific and academic research projects from their invention in the late 1900s. [1] One problems facing meteorological researchers was the fact that mesonets and other ground-based observation methods were being deployed too slow in order to accurately measure and study high-impact atmospheric phenomena. [1]
The tornado downed many trees on the banks of the Mississippi River, where it lifted at 8:25 p.m. (0125 UTC) just northeast of exit 34 on Interstate 270. The tornado was rated a mid-grade EF3, with winds up to 150 mph (240 km/h). It was on the ground for 35 minutes, traveled 32.5 miles (52.3 km), and had a maximum path width of 1 mile (1.6 km).
Some of the most notorious twisters in U.S. history were wedge tornadoes, including the EF5 that leveled Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011, and the El Reno tornado, which was a jaw-dropping 2.6 ...
Tornadoes of 1945. Tornado outbreak of February 12, 1945 ... TWISTEX; Tornado Intercept Vehicle (TIV) TOtable Tornado Observatory (TOTO) Radars.
On May 24, 2011, Laubach saw his 200th career tornado in Fairview, Oklahoma. In 2012, he returned to solo chasing. On May 31, 2013, Laubach documented the largest tornado on record near El Reno, Oklahoma. [17] That tornado took the lives of his fellow TWISTEX teammates Tim Samaras, Paul Samaras, and Carl Young of South Lake Tahoe, California ...