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35-day marathon will span a region from Minnesota to Texas to study tornadoes

 
BY JAMES S. TYREE | Modified: May 14, 2009 at 7:17 am | Published: May 9, 2009    Comment on this article Leave a comment


NORMAN — The project billed as the largest and most ambitious field experiment to explore tornadoes will start Sunday out of Norman.

photo - On Friday at the National Weather Center in Norman, Randy Hurt, right, of the Magellan Co. gives Mike Magsig and Jim Ladue (behind camera) information about cameras to be used for VORTEX2. PHOTO BY STEVE SISNEY, THE OKLAHOMAN
On Friday at the National Weather Center in Norman, Randy Hurt, right, of the Magellan Co. gives Mike Magsig and Jim Ladue (behind camera) information about cameras to be used for VORTEX2. PHOTO BY STEVE SISNEY, THE OKLAHOMAN

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The Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment 2, or VORTEX2, will involve about 120 scientists and crew members. They’ll use 80 separately placed instruments, 40 vehicles and 11 mobile radars across a 900-mile region from southwest Minnesota to the Texas Panhandle.

The National Weather Center on the University of Oklahoma campus held a media day Friday to explain the project.

From Sunday through June 13, VORTEX2 crews will study supercells to find out why and how some develop tornadoes.

"We just want to observe everything, everywhere, and to observe it for a very long time,” said Josh Wurman, a project co-lead investigator from the Center for Severe Weather Research of Boulder, Colo.

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