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TOTO. An instrumented metal drum which scientists attempted to place in the path of tornadoes during the 1980s. The TOtable Tornado Observatory (nicknamed "TOTO") is a large, instrumented barrel-shaped device invented in 1979 by engineers Dr. Al Bedard and Carl Ramzy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Environmental Technology Laboratory (ETL), and Dr. Howard ...
The closest use of TOTO to an actual tornado was April 29, 1984, near Ardmore, but the device fell over when a weak funnel came too close. Due to logistical and safety issues, TOTO was retired in ...
The TOtable TOrnado Observatory (TOTO), developed by NOAA Environmental Research Laboratory scientists, was a 55-gallon barrel outfitted with anemometers, pressure sensors, and humidity sensors, along with devices to record the data. In theory, a team would roll TOTO out of the back of the pickup in the path of a tornado, switch on the ...
TOTO is a backronym for 'TOtable Tornado Observatory', adapted from the name of Dorothy's dog from The Wizard of Oz. [13] It is an in situ instrument for recording data from tornadoes. See also
The city, Florida’s capital, is still recovering from Friday’s deadly EF2 tornadoes and 100 mph winds which toppled hundreds of power poles and caused widespread damage. The storms also ...
A comparison of the widths of various tornadoes exceeding 1 mile (2.2 km), superimposed over a map of El Reno, Oklahoma. This is a list of tornadoes by their official and unofficial width. The average width of a tornado according to the National Weather Service is 50 yards (46 m). [1]