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Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes
Experiment or VORTEX, is a field project that seeks to
understand how a tornado is produced by deploying around 18
vehicles that are equipped with customized instruments used
to measure and analyze the weather around a tornado. The
project has also stated that it is interested in why some
super cells produce tornadoes while others do not. It also
concerned itself with why some super cells form violent
tornadoes versus weak tornadoes. The original project took
place in 1994 and 1995, and another project was run in 1999.
The movie Twister was at least partially inspired by the
VORTEX project.
A second VORTEX project, named VORTEX2 is being planned for
2009-10
What?
Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes
Experiment (VORTEX)
Who?
A host of researchers, scientists, programmers, technicians,
and pilots from the National Severe Storms Laboratory,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the
University of Oklahoma and its Center for Analysis and
Prediction of Storms, several other universities, NCAR's
Atmospheric Technology Division and Mesoscale and Microscale
Meteorology Division, and UOP's Office of Field Project
Support (now merged into the Joint Office for Science
Support)
Why?
To learn more about how and why some severe thunderstorms
produce tornadoes and others do not
How?
By deploying a net of instrumentation--aircraft,
instrument-studded vehicles, mobile Doppler radars--to
intercept severe storms
Where?
The southern Great Plains from Kansas to Texas
for More information you can visit Information on the VORTEX project
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