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TORUS Project

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.

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Graduate student Alex Erwin drills a pipe that will hold an instrument cluster on Nebraska's newest storm chase vehicle. Starting this spring, 13 Huskers will be part of TORUS, a national study designed to collect data about how severe storms and tornadoes are formed. April 26, 2019. Photo by Troy Fedderson / University Communication

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Nebraska students (from left) Brennan Darrah and Maddy Diedrichsen install a new computer screen inside a storm chase vehicle. Each of the research vehicles include three computer stations — two in the back seats and one in the front. Along with collecting data, the computers are also used to track storms via radar and for navigation. April 26, 2019. Photo by Troy Fedderson / University Communication

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Nebraska students (from left) Brennan Darrah and Maddy Diedrichsen install a new computer screen inside a storm chase vehicle. Each of the research vehicles include three computer stations — two in the back seats and one in the front. Along with collecting data, the computers are also used to track storms via radar and for navigation. April 26, 2019. Photo by Troy Fedderson / University Communication

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Students meet with Adam Houston (center) as they prep vehicles prior to the start of the TORUS project. TORUS Storm Chasers. April 26, 2019. Photo by Troy Fedderson / University Communication

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Graduate student Matt Wilson reviews code in programs that are used to collect real-time storm data. All data collected is stored in computers located in the back of Nebraska's mesonet vehicles. The data is backed up daily. April 26, 2019. Photo by Troy Fedderson / University Communication

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Ben Schweigert, a freshman meteorology major from Omaha, tightens a bolt that holds a tower for a computer display within a mesonet vehicle. Students equipped two of the storm chase vehicles this year, one for the Nebraska team and another for Central Michigan University. The work begins as a class in the fall semester. April 26, 2019. Photo by Troy Fedderson / University Communication

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The instrument cluster mounted on the front of Nebraska storm chase vehicles include devices that record data on wind vectors, air temperature, humidity and air pressure. All data collected is stored on hard drives within the vehicles and saved for study at a later date. April 26, 2019. Photo by Troy Fedderson / University Communication

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Nebraska students (from left) Maddy Diedrichsen and Brennan Darrah work on installing a new monitor and keyboard into the passenger seat of a mesonet (storm chase) vehicle during prep work for the TORUS project. April 26, 2019. Photo by Troy Fedderson / University Communication

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A thunderhead rolls across the dust on the back window of a Nebraska storm chase vehicle. The TORUS research project, which will cover much of the Great Plains in 2019 and 2020, begins May 14. April 26, 2019. Photo by Troy Fedderson / University Communication

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Nebraska students (from left) Brennan Darrah and Maddy Diedrichsen discuss how to attach instrumentation to the front of a mesonet (storm chase) vehicle during prep work for the TORUS project. April 26, 2019. Photo by Troy Fedderson / University Communication

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