VORTEX2 Holds Media Day
May 10, nearly 100 scientists and students from 16 different universities will use a 40 vehicle armada to track thunderstorms with funding from NOAA and the National Science Foundation. The program named VORTEX2 will record data to further the understanding of how tornadoes form and why some storms produce the violent whirlwinds and others do not. Oklahoman photographer Steve Sisney will accompany the group Sunday and report on their progress.
Josh Barnwell and Alex Gibbs, graduate students from the University of Nebraska, show a deployable pod which measures wind speed, pressure, relative humidity, and supports a camera and GPS equipment. The devices were shown during media day for the launch of the Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment 2 (VORTEX2) at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. on Friday, May 8, 2009.
Casey Letkewicz, North Carolina State University graduate student, releases a weather baloon during media day for the launch of the Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment 2 (VORTEX2) at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. on Friday, May 8, 2009. Photo by Steve Sisney, The Oklahoman
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