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A growing number of experienced storm chasers advocate the adoption of a code of ethics in storm chasing featuring safety, courtesy, and objectivity as the backbone. [ 28 ] [ 58 ] Storm chasing is a highly visible recreational activity (which is also associated with science ) that is vulnerable to sensationalist media promotion. [ 59 ]
In 1994, Nguyen began chasing storms in Texas and soon expanded his range to the larger area of the central United States commonly known as Tornado Alley.Nguyen began publishing images regularly in Accord Publishing's popular annual Weather Guide Calendar series, [9] Smithsonian Magazine, NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day, as well as Weatherwise, Storm Track, UCAR Quarterly Archived 2010-05 ...
1 Storm Chasers Monitor Ghastly Tornado Near Attica, Kansas. Toggle the table of contents. Wikipedia: Featured picture candidates/Storm Chasers Monitor Tornado.
The tornado ultimately attained EF3 intensity during its existence, according to ground surveys. [8] As the tornado passed south of El Reno across U.S. 81, it grew to an unprecedented width of 2.6 miles (4.2 km), becoming the widest known tornado ever recorded in the United States.
Doswell appeared in "The Chasers of Tornado Alley" (1996) along with friend and meteorologist Alan Moller. The award-winning documentary film about storm chasing, produced and directed by storm chaser and filmmaker Martin Lisius , follows Doswell and Moller as they intercept a tornado in the small town of Pampa, Texas on June 8, 1995.
He was the first to photograph an anticyclonic tornado. [2] Leonard was the son of Arthur H. Leonard Jr. and Marjorie Irene Leonard. [3] He grew up in south Florida and in 1971 began chasing tropical cyclones in the United States and the Caribbean, as well as on Guam and Hawaii. [4] He sometimes moved to Guam during typhoon season.
Outbreak produced the Candlestick Park tornado, which was an extremely violent F5 tornado or tornado family that killed 58 people and traveled 202.5 mi (325.9 km) across Mississippi and Alabama. It is one of the longest such paths on record and one of only four official F5 tornadoes to hit Mississippi.