Largest high-tech tornado chase ever set to spin

[BadgerKid]

Next month, with the help of a variety of high-tech gear, researchers will begin a wide-ranging project to better understand the origin, structure and evolution of tornadoes with the ultimate goal of being able to better predict when the destructive storms will happen and get people out of harms way faster.

The National Science Foundation has given $9.1 million to the project known as Verification Of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment 2, or more simply, VORTEX2, which will take place from May 10-June 13. Researchers say Vortex2 is the largest attempt in history to study tornadoes, and will involve more than 50 scientists and 40 research vehicles, including 10 mobile radars covering 900 square miles of ground in southern South Dakota, western Iowa, eastern Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, the Texas panhandle and western Oklahoma.

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P.S. Any storm chasers here?

[phantom power]

1. I think of my self as more of a "storm escaper."

When danger reared it's ugly head, he bravely turned his tail and fled!

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin...