Skip Talbot
EF5
Hey folks, sorry for my long absence from Stormtrack. I’ve just had no time between the chaotic chase season, being a new father, and programming work. I’m super excited to be able to post on behalf of a group that I’ve been working with for the past year. This unique opportunity has been a great collaborative effort between numerous chasers and meteorologists, and on a personal level has also given me the chance to combine my passion for chasing with my programming skillset.
So for the past year I've been working on a special website that lets you view the El Reno tornado from dozens of different perspectives, with synchronized video from storm chasers, on top of an animated map with data and radar overlays. This website is one of the many end products of the El Reno Survey, a crowd sourced study of the exceptional and tragic 31 May 2013 El Reno, OK storm. A team led by Anton Seimon and including Tracie Alexis Seimon, John Allen, Elke Edwards, and David Hoadley has gathered video and data from over 80 storm chasers who documented this event. The video has been precisely located in time and place to create a 4D view and database of the storm that can benefit scientist researchers and anyone curious about the event. The web tool we created to browse this data is called TED, the Tornado Environment Display, named after Dr. Ted Fujita who did his own crowd sourced studies of tornadoes in the 1950's. You can now use TED yourself to watch this event unfold by going to:
http://el-reno-survey.net/ted/
We're still adding features, data, and ironing out a couple quirks, but this is the product from the collaboration of dozens of folks like you, storms chasers and meteorologists working together. Many Stormtrack members’ videos are featured in the tool and we’re still in the process of adding many more.
There's a brief tutorial video available:
National Geographic has an article about the tool on their site to coincide with the release of their TV show about this storm: “Inside the Mega Twister”.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...ronment-display-el-reno-samaras-storm-science
The show airs tomorrow, Sunday December 6 at 9 central. We worked extensively with the TV crew providing information about the tornado and chasers who documented it. There are a couple of nice interview segments featuring our project lead, Anton Seimon, and the TED tool is briefly shown as well.
Check out the TED tool and let us know if you have any feedback. Thanks!
So for the past year I've been working on a special website that lets you view the El Reno tornado from dozens of different perspectives, with synchronized video from storm chasers, on top of an animated map with data and radar overlays. This website is one of the many end products of the El Reno Survey, a crowd sourced study of the exceptional and tragic 31 May 2013 El Reno, OK storm. A team led by Anton Seimon and including Tracie Alexis Seimon, John Allen, Elke Edwards, and David Hoadley has gathered video and data from over 80 storm chasers who documented this event. The video has been precisely located in time and place to create a 4D view and database of the storm that can benefit scientist researchers and anyone curious about the event. The web tool we created to browse this data is called TED, the Tornado Environment Display, named after Dr. Ted Fujita who did his own crowd sourced studies of tornadoes in the 1950's. You can now use TED yourself to watch this event unfold by going to:
http://el-reno-survey.net/ted/
We're still adding features, data, and ironing out a couple quirks, but this is the product from the collaboration of dozens of folks like you, storms chasers and meteorologists working together. Many Stormtrack members’ videos are featured in the tool and we’re still in the process of adding many more.
There's a brief tutorial video available:
National Geographic has an article about the tool on their site to coincide with the release of their TV show about this storm: “Inside the Mega Twister”.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...ronment-display-el-reno-samaras-storm-science
The show airs tomorrow, Sunday December 6 at 9 central. We worked extensively with the TV crew providing information about the tornado and chasers who documented it. There are a couple of nice interview segments featuring our project lead, Anton Seimon, and the TED tool is briefly shown as well.
Check out the TED tool and let us know if you have any feedback. Thanks!
