Wednesdays Weather Looks Promising for Vortex2 Chase Team.
What is Vortex2 you might ask? I will try and make this short and simple. Vortex2 is by far the largest and most ambitious effort ever made to understand tornadoes. Why? Simply to save lives. Current warnings have only a 13 minute average lead time and a70% false alarm rate. How can we learn to forecast tornadoes better? Can we make warnings more accurate? Can we warn 30, 45, 60 minutes ahead? Most folks that live along the Front Range don’t think a lot about tornado warnings, but many who live here have roots in the mid-west and worry about friends and family who still live in Tornado Alley.
Vortex2 is made up of over 100 scientists and crew in up to 40 science and support vehicles that will give chase when the weather is right. So far since their start on Sunday May 10 they have been setting and waiting for the right conditions to produce tornadoes. And tomorrow (Wed) it looks like they will have their chance to put all of their prep-work to use. If you would like to know more about this effort go to this web sight www.vortex2.org and be amazed by the monumental effort.
Also the Weather Channel is following the chase very closely as well and they have a team embedded with Vortex2. And you can check out what they are doing at www.weather.com/vortex.