Chasing Twisters
Published April 28, 2004
Fifth grade science teacher David Thon is joining as an "embedded blogger" as a team of WeatherBug meteorologists take part in a five-day-long tornado chase called WeatherBug Storm Chase 2004. The team will set out in search of storms beginning Monday, May 3 in Oklahoma City:
- David (top right) was chosen from hundreds of teacher applicants to be a guest on the WeatherBug storm chase. Thon is an award-winning educator who was responsible for incorporating the WeatherBug Achieve program into the Appleby Elementary curriculum nearly two years ago. After a nationwide search, he was selected for the WeatherBug Storm Chase for his enthusiasm and innovative use of live weather data in classroom lessons.
Thon will play a key role in gathering/analyzing data and readings and in learning more about how and why tornadoes take place. He will write to this web log - or 'blog' - about the experience several times a day and also answer questions from students and colleagues via email.
The WeatherBug Storm Chase team, including Chief Meteorologist Mark Hoekzema and Meteorologist/Storm Chase Specialist Mark Lee, will set off to chase storms beginning in Oklahoma City on Monday, May 3 and will continue through Friday, May 7 - the height of the tornado season.
The group will seek out severe weather using a specialized vehicle called the WeatherBug Storm Chaser. The Dodge Durango is packed with a state-of-the-art wireless satellite tracking system to track storm cells, and special wirelessly-enabled weather monitoring equipment that can stream live conditions and camera images to the Internet.
- Chasing Twisters
- Published: April 28, 2004
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- Writer: Eric Olsen
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Sheri, but do you look like Helen Hunt in a t-shirt?
Do you really want me to answer that? :0X
um, I'm not sure, only if you want to
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When I was being career tested one time, I was asked by the counselor what it was I really wanted to do. I told him chasing storms, feeling kind of strange. I mean it, if there is anything else I would rather be doing, other than what I (am stuck with?) chasing tornadoes would be it.It is fascinating to me, and I have been on the edge of them, when the sky turned green, then when it hit, just a little way down the road from me, trees were bent completely to the ground, rain /hail coming down sideways.We go thru a season of them here every year, but not as bad as other places.