Students of Purdue Observing Tornadic Thunderstorms for Research (SPOTTR): Severe Storms Field Work course. This account disseminates announcements related to the course and its activities, in near real-time from the field.
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Our department made this recap video of our trip!
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Sounding near near Oacoma, SD at 1900 UTC
What a day! We scanned a rotating wall cloud S of Presho, SD with RaXPol, but had to abandon it just before tornadogenesis because it was coming our way. Two PIPS were deployed in the storm’s path. We also saw the last few seconds of the Ideal, SD tornado as it spun down out of the rain. What a day!
Today’s western SD storms were a mistimed, disorganized mess, but we got a nice sunset mammatus show as a consolation prize!
Sonde launch near Sturgis, SD at 2100 UTC
This outflow-dominant bookend supercell near Miller, SD was our storm du jour. While it didn’t produce any tornadoes, it did have a persistent wall cloud for the hour of our approach, and we collected some differential attenuation data for use in teaching!
The last few seconds of the Ideal, SD tornado were not classic, but the students could not have cared less. This was an applied lesson in forecasting and safe storm observation!
Our last day of SPOTTR featured a picture perfect RaXPol deployment on a slow-moving supercell with prolific lightning and a funnel cloud near Pickrell, NE! The week has flown by!
🌪️ 📷: @hail-cham.bsky.social
Our SPOTTR class returned to Purdue on 6 June after witnessing three tornadic storms and driving more than 3,000 miles. We collected RaXPol radar data on nearly every day of the trip. Thanks to NSF for supporting the participation of 14 students! #NSFFunded
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I’m so grateful for taking SPOTTR. Not only did I learn new ways to forecast and how different forecasting can be between regions of the U.S., I got to see what I learned on campus in real life and how research can be done in the field. I will never forget this Summer!
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Hailey Chambers
Our last day of SPOTTR featured a picture perfect RaXPol deployment on a slow-moving supercell with prolific lightning and a funnel cloud near Pickrell, NE! The week has flown by!
🌪️ 📷: @hail-cham.bsky.social
