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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. Thomas P. Grazulis - Wikipedia

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   He was a science teacher in New Jersey and worked on the "Earth Science Curriculum Project" with the National Science Foundation (NSF). He and his wife Doris, also a teacher and a small business operator, then moved to the St. Johnsbury, Vermont area in 1970. [ 2 ]

4. TWISTEX - Wikipedia

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   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 experiment announced in 2015 that there were some plans for future ...

5. Tornado Tube - Wikipedia

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   When one of the bottles is filled with liquid and the two bottles are connected with a Tornado Tube, they may be used as a children's educational toy demonstrating a vortex. [1] The device was accidentally invented in 1968 by Craig Burnham for a school science fair project as an attempt to create an hour glass with water.

6. National Severe Storms Laboratory - Wikipedia

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   NSSL participated in the Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment 2009-2010, an extensive project studying small scale kinematics, atmospheric variables and when and why tornadoes form. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Science Foundation (NSF) supported more than 100 scientists ...

7. A Meteorologist Weighs in on the Science Behind 'Twisters'

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   "In the original Twister, the idea of putting these Dorothy sensor balls into a tornado is completely science fiction, but it inspired a generation of people to want to do scientific research on ...