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

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


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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