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2. VORTEX projects - Wikipedia

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   Date: 1994 and 1995: Location: Tornado Alley: Also known as: Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment 1: Outcome: Documented an entire tornado, which, in conjunction with deployment of the NEXRAD system, helped the National Weather Service to provide severe weather warnings with a thirteen-minute lead time, and reduce false alarms by ten percent.

3. List of schools struck by tornadoes - Wikipedia

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   Springfield Middle School The tornado reached peak intensity of 140 mph (230 km/h) at the Springfield Middle School in Lucama, North Carolina. The school sustained major damage, with multiple walls being blown out and sections of the structure's roof being removed. Shortly after affecting the school, the tornado's sole fatality occurred at a ...

4. Storm chasing - Wikipedia

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   The first of the seminal VORTEX projects occurred in 1994–1995 [19] and was soon followed by various field experiments each spring, with another large project, VORTEX2, [20] in 2009–2010. [21] Since the mid-1990s, most storm chasing science, with the notable exception of large field projects, consists of mobile Doppler weather radar intercepts.

5. Science behind 'Twisters': Can you really 'kill' a tornado ...

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   After a record-setting year for tornadoes, the release of stand-alone sequel "Twisters" this week is particularly timely.. The disaster film follows two storm chasers on their quest to research ...

6. TWISTEX - Wikipedia

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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.

7. 13 injured in 'smoke tornado experiment' at Nevada museum - AOL

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   (Reuters) - Thirteen people were hurt, including several children, in a chemical explosion on Wednesday at a museum in Reno, Nevada, where presenters demonstrating a so-called smoke tornado caused ...