Pre-Deployment Media
June 9, 2017 Deployment
The deployment was in central North Dakota (near Towner). This is a visualization of data collected on June 9, 2017.
June 8, 2018 Deployment
The deployment was in southern South Dakota (near Norris). This is a visualization of data collected on June 8, 2018. Here is a video with deployment highlights. There are also videos of a time lapse from the CoMeT2 during the two flights and video from the tail of the TTwistor aircraft during the flights.
TORUS Deployments
Media will be added when TORUS field operations commence.
In the news...
To Probe Tornado Secrets, These Scientists Stalk Supercells
The New York Times (9/8/2022)
Tornado Hunters: The storm-chasing scientists on a mission to solve the sky's greatest mystery
Dateline Australia (6/28/2022)
TORUS covers 9,000 miles across five states to collect storm data
Nebraska Today (8/23/2019)
You might want to take cover if an armada of weird storm-chaser vehicles rolls into town
Omaha World-Herald (5/18/2019)
Flying Drones Into Tornadoes
Weather Geeks (5/15/2019)
How do tornadoes form? This drone-based project seeks to unravel the secrets of spinning storms
The Washington Post (5/14/2019)
Tornado scientists send drone fleet into violent thunderstorms
Nature (5/14/2019)
UN-L set to lead multimillion dollar drone-based tornado research
KETV Omaha (5/1/2019)
Tracking a supercell thunderstorm across the Great Plains
National Science Foundation (4/3/2019)
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