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5 June 2013
I Was Chasing When Chasing Wasn’t Cool
In 1979 I was on the National Severe Storms Lab chase team, and people would actually laugh at us. In those days the idea was to get good quality film of a developing tornado and try to match scientific theory of tornado genesis with fact. The other very important goal was to match real world with radar signatures, especially using the new Doppler radar at NSSL. There were only a …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.