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NSSL Chase Vehicle Project Vortex -Probe 5. Chasing the storm.
Ford Tempo
Image ID: nssl0171, NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection
Location: Texas
Photo Date: June 3, 1995
Credit: NOAA Photo Library, NOAA Central Library; OAR/ERL/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)
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NSSL Chase Vehicle Project Vortex - inflating a balloon.
Dodge Ram Van
Image ID: nssl0173, NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection
Location: Northern Texas
Photo Date: April 27, 1994
Credit: NOAA Photo Library, NOAA Central Library; OAR/ERL/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)
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NSSL Chase Vehicle Project Vortex - Probe 4. The Dimmitt Tornado.
Ford Tempo
Image ID: nssl0185, NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection
Location: Texas, Dimmitt
Photo Date: June 6, 1995
Credit: NOAA Photo Library, NOAA Central Library; OAR/ERL/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)
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NSSL Chase Vehicle Project Vortex. The Dimmitt Tornado.
Image ID: nssl0187, NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection
Location: South of Dimmitt, Texas
Photo Date: June 2, 1995
Photographer: Harald Richter
Credit: NOAA Photo Library, NOAA Central Library; OAR/ERL/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)
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NSSL Chase Vehicle The tornadic storm observed earlier was accompanied by large dangerous hail which smashed the windshield of this National Severe Storms Laboratory instrumented vehicle. Note leaves and mud on side of truck.
Dodge Grand Caravan
Image ID: nssl0257, NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection
Location: Wyoming, LaGrange
Photo Date: 2009 June 5
Credit: VORTEX II
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NSSL Chase Vehicle The tornadic storm observed earlier was accompanied by large dangerous hail which smashed the windshield of this National Severe Storms Laboratory instrumented vehicle. Note leaves and mud on side of truck.
Dodge Grand Caravan
Image ID: nssl0258, NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection
Location: Wyoming, LaGrange
Photo Date: 2009 June 5
Credit: VORTEX II
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NSSL Chase Vehicle VORTEX2 tornado investigators planning operations in vicinity of thunderstorm.
Image ID: nssl0259, NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection
Location: Wyoming, SE
Photo Date: 2009 June 6
Credit: VORTEX II
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NSSL Chase Vehicle SR-1 passing NO-XP to position before a storm
Image ID: nssl0262, NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection
Location: Nebraska, Fairbury
Photographer: Susan Cobb, NOAA/OAR/NSSL
Photo Date: 2009 June 1
Credit: VORTEX II
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NSSL Chase Vehicle NO-XP sets up at Fairbury Municipal Airport
International 4300
Image ID: nssl0263, NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection
Location: Nebraska, Fairbury
Photographer: Susan Cobb, NOAA/OAR/NSSL
Photo Date: 2009 June 1
Credit: VORTEX II
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NSSL Chase Vehicle NOAA/NSSL X-Pol Mobile radar uses a 3cm wavelength to detect smaller particles including cloud droplets. This radar can distinguish tornado debris clouds from precipitation.
International 4300
Image ID: nssl0264, NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection
Location: Nebraska, Fairbury
Photographer: Susan Cobb, NOAA/OAR/NSSL
Photo Date: 2009 June 1
Credit: VORTEX II
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NSSL Chase Vehicle NOAA/NSSL X-Pol Mobile radar uses a 3cm wavelength to detect smaller particles including cloud droplets. This radar can distinguish tornado debris clouds from precipitation.
Image ID: nssl0265, NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection
Location: Nebraska, Fairbury
Photographer: Susan Cobb, NOAA/OAR/NSSL
Photo Date: 2009 June 1
Credit: VORTEX II
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NSSL Chase Vehicle NSSL's Ted Mansell pulls out plates to help stabilize the NOAA X-Pol mobile radar.
International 4300
Image ID: nssl0266, NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection
Location: Nebraska, Omaha
Photographer: Susan Cobb, NOAA/OAR/NSSL
Photo Date: 2009 May 31
Credit: VORTEX II
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NSSL Chase Vehicle NOAA/NSSL X-Pol Mobile radar uses a 3cm wavelength to detect smaller particles including cloud droplets. This radar can distinguish tornado debris clouds from precipitation.
International 4300
Image ID: nssl0269, NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection
Location: Nebraska, Omaha
Photographer: Susan Cobb, NOAA/OAR/NSSL
Photo Date: 2009 May 31
Credit: VORTEX II
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NSSL Chase Vehicle NOAA/NSSL X-Pol Mobile radar ready for operation.
International 4300
Image ID: nssl0270, NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection
Location: Nebraska, Omaha
Photographer: Susan Cobb, NOAA/OAR/NSSL
Photo Date: 2009 May 31
Credit: VORTEX II
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NSSL Chase Vehicle NOAA/NSSL X-Pol Mobile radar after the storm has passed over
International 4300
Image ID: nssl0270, NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection
Location: Nebraska, Omaha
Photographer: Susan Cobb, NOAA/OAR/NSSL
Photo Date: 2009 May 31
Credit: VORTEX II
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NSSL Chase Vehicle NSSL retired scientist Don Burgess pioneered the concept of "nowcasting" by using radar to direct an NSSL research team during a tornado intercept and lead the discovery of the "tornado vortex signature" seen in radar displays. Burgess leads the NO-XP mobile radar team.
International 4300
Image ID: nssl0272, NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection
Location: Nebraska, Omaha
Photographer: Susan Cobb, NOAA/OAR/NSSL
Photo Date: 2009 May 31
Credit: VORTEX II
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NSSL Chase Vehicle Nebraska storms looking to southwest from NSSL MV.
Chevrolet Suburban
Image ID: nssl0273, NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection
Location: Nebraska, Grand Island
Photographer: Susan Cobb, NOAA/OAR/NSSL
Photo Date: 2009 May 29
Credit: VORTEX II
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NSSL Chase Vehicle Nebraska storms looking to southeast from NSSL MV. The team was between two storms at that time.
Chevrolet Suburban
Image ID: nssl0274, NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection
Location: Nebraska, Grand Island
Photographer: Susan Cobb, NOAA/OAR/NSSL
Photo Date: 2009 May 29
Credit: VORTEX II
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NSSL Chase Vehicle The field command vehicle passing the SMART-R radar outside of Canute, Oklahoma, on I-40 heading towards Texas.
Image ID: nssl0284, NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection
Location: Oklahoma, Canute
Photographer: Susan Cobb, NOAA/OAR/NSSL
Photo Date: 2009 May 12
Credit: VORTEX II
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NSSL Chase Vehicle SMART-R radar heading toward the storms outside of Childress, Texas.
Image ID: nssl0285, NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection
Location: Texas, Childress
Photographer: Susan Cobb, NOAA/OAR/NSSL
Photo Date: 2009 May 12
Credit: VORTEX II
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NSSL Chase Vehicle Launching a weather balloon
Chevrolet Silverado
Image ID: nssl0297, NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection
Photo Date: 2009
Credit: VORTEX II
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NSSL Chase Vehicle Texas Tech Stick-Net
Image ID: nssl0299, NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection
Photo Date: 2009 May 8
Credit: Texas Tech University Severe Storm Research Team; VORTEX II
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NSSL Chase Vehicle NSSL's Susan Cobb works on two laptops to upload video to a network TV station.
Image ID: nssl0305, NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection
Photo Date: 2009 June 11
Photographer: John Oakland
Credit: VORTEX II
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NSSL Chase Vehicle VORTEX2 hits the road with an impressive array of vehicles and equipment.
Image ID: nssl0306, NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection
Photo Date: 2009 June 9
Credit: VORTEX II
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NSSL Chase Vehicle VORTEX2 field command vehicle in vicinity of thunderstorm
Ford E-450
Image ID: nssl0308, NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) Collection
Location: Kansas
Photo Date: 2009 June 9
Photographer: Dr. Mike Coniglio, NOAA NSSL
Credit: VORTEX II
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