updated 11:02 a.m. EDT, Thu May 14, 2009

The biggest tornado chase ever

It sounds like the movie "Twister" -- teams of scientists in vans, armed with high-tech measuring equipment, barreling across the Oklahoma plains in search of tornadoes. But these scientists are colleagues, not rivals, and these storms aren't Hollywood digital wizardry but the real thing. Welcome to VORTEX2, the largest field experiment ever devoted to studying tornadoes. full story

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