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  2. VORTEX projects - Wikipedia

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    VORTEX projects. NSSL mobile mesonet vehicles of the first Project VORTEX, equipped with surface measurement equipment. The V erification of the O rigins of R otation in T ornadoes Ex periment (or VORTEX) are field experiments that study tornadoes. VORTEX1 was the first time scientists completely researched the entire evolution of a tornado ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Ted Fujita - Wikipedia

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    Ted Fujita. Tetsuya Theodore Fujita ( / fuːˈdʒiːtɑː /; FOO-jee-tah) (藤田 哲也, Fujita Tetsuya, October 23, 1920 – November 19, 1998) was a Japanese-American meteorologist whose research primarily focused on severe weather. His research at the University of Chicago on severe thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, and typhoons ...

  5. TOtable Tornado Observatory - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Tornado - Wikipedia

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    A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. It is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, [1] although the word cyclone is used in meteorology to name a weather system with a low-pressure area in the ...

  7. Tornadogenesis - Wikipedia

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    Tornadogenesis is the process by which a tornado forms. There are many types of tornadoes and these vary in methods of formation. Despite ongoing scientific study and high-profile research projects such as VORTEX, tornadogenesis is a volatile process and the intricacies of many of the mechanisms of tornado formation are still poorly understood.

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