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Dallas McKinney poses with the MesoNet vehicles as the team prepares to chase summer storms. After tornadoes hit too close to his family home outside Mayfield, Kentucky, meteorology student McKinney decided he needed to learn more about the weather forces that create the often-lethal storms. That curiosity led him to join a Nebraska-led team that will spend May 15-June 15 tracking storms in the US Great Plains from Texas to the Canadian border, deploying a broad suite of instrumentation in a quest to better understand why supercell thunderstorms sometimes form tornadoes. May 13, 2022. Photo by Craig Chandler / University Communication.