How storm chasers and meteorologists are working together to improve tornado forecasts
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PBS NewsHour
4.1 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Millions of movie go |
| 0:02.0 | movie go see Twisters this weekend. |
| 0:05.0 | It's a sequel to the 1996 blockbuster. |
| 0:08.0 | It's a summer escapist thriller that you might say goes well beyond the science and the true boundaries of tornado |
| 0:14.1 | prediction. But Miles O'Brien spent some time during this busy tornado season |
| 0:18.8 | with actual tornado chasers and meteorologists to understand the latest research. |
| 0:24.8 | Here's his report, part of a documentary done with the Weather App, My Radar. |
| 0:28.8 | How do you know where to go? |
| 0:32.8 | Jordan Hall is a man on a mission. |
| 0:36.1 | R. |
| 0:37.1 | Is that the idea? |
| 0:38.2 | Yeah, so I'll look at forecast models, |
| 0:40.1 | age triple R in particular, and then I'll look at surface models as well. |
| 0:43.4 | My goal is to shoot close range, insane video and sell it to the news networks. |
| 0:49.9 | With great success, he makes a living chasing tornadoes. |
| 0:56.3 | You're good, you're good. |
| 1:00.3 | It's in the floor, bro, we gotta go. |
| 1:01.3 | We're good. |
| 1:02.0 | We're good. We're not good. Let's go. Stay still. |
| 1:04.1 | We're fine. I hear the roar! |
| 1:09.6 | I sat in his well-equipped SUV and watched highlights of this epic storm-facing season. |
| 1:17.0 | This year has been absolutely bonkers since middle of April. |
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