Keli Tarp
(405) 325-6933
Keli.Tarp@noaa.gov
VORTEX2 research teams made science history by deploying 70 instruments, including 10 mobile radars and at least 30 other vehicles, on a tornadic supercell for the first time. Detailed data were collected from 20 minutes before the tornado formed until its demise. The tornado, intercepted in LaGrange, Wyoming on June 5, 2009, is [...]
The VORTEX2 team is making the most of a quiet atmosphere by using the opportunity to practice deployment on non-tornadic storms during the lull in the supercell activity. VORTEX2 researchers believe there is still much to learn about thunderstorms, and since the collection of unique and diverse instruments is unprecedented, they do not plan to [...]
A collaborative nationwide project exploring the origins, structure and evolution of tornadoes will occur from May 10 through June 13 in the central United States. The project, Verification of Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment2 (VORTEX2 or V2), is the largest and most ambitious attempt to study tornadoes in history and will involve more than 50 scientists and 40 research vehicles, including 10 mobile radars.
NOAA/NSSL will host a VORTEX2 Media Day on May 8, 2009 from 10 a.m.–12 p.m. Interested media will have the opportunity to tour VORTEX2 research vehicles and interview VORTEX2 researchers and teams.
A VORTEX2 planning meeting was held in Boulder, Colo. February 23–24. VORTEX2 Principal Investigators gave short presentations on their planned projects, strategies, and scientific objectives.
