Courting danger: Storm chasers seek thrill of hunt

[Jason Bolt]

More outstanding PR.

http://www.hutchnews.com/Nation/tornadochasersmon

CANUTE, Okla. - The vans are a jet-flash of white paint as they streak down the turnpike, gunning it to 90 mph.

They're not the police. They're not ambulances. But they're still reacting to the worst nature can throw.

These are storm chasers, part of the tornado paparazzi. This afternoon's bait: a supercell in far western Oklahoma that could spit out an EF2 (that's lingo for a strong tornado on the Enhanced Fujita scale, which measures such storms.)

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[Mike Hollingshead]

http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/showthread.php?t=24669

Stuff gets posted fast these days lol.

 

[Jeff Snyder]

Since the article has been posted about thrice in the past couple of hours, we'll refer all discussion to the thread that was opened first. As such, please see AP News Story on Chasers