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Storm Spotters Kim Howell and Bill Oosterbaan who gave a presentation on “Storm Chasing: Do’s, Don’ts and Everything in Between”. Their slides and videos this evening were from the EF5 tornado in Moore, Oklahoma in May 2014, the Pilger, Nebraska tornado from June 2014 and the Mangum, Oklahoma tornado in May 2019. It is interesting both of them stated when chasing tornadoes they are less fearful of tornadoes than they are of traffic jams from too many spotters, large hail and lightning.
Kim and Bill also showed this slide of their storm chasing tips. One additional point was to avoid what they called “roads of death”. Many of the dirt roads in the plains states are red clay, which becomes slippery as ice when wet. It is also very easy to sink into the mud on a dirt road with no way to escape. Bottom line is to get trained on how to chase storms, plan escape routes well and don’t go alone.
To see the entire presentation move your mouse over the image below and click on the arrow at the top right corner to "pop-out" the pdf.
AMS Presentation 1_22_2020.pdfKim has a YouTube channel for tornado and chasing videos - https://www.youtube.com/user/kimhowell2/videos
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