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‘Twister,’ ‘Twisters’ and the actual practice of storm chasing

Alum Robin Tamachi: So the first time I went out storm chasing was in 2001. I was in college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison at the time. And we went out in a van for a week to the Great Plains to just observe storms and document them and collect whatever data we could using kind of some basic handheld instruments. Well, I’ll tell you, I learned more about meteorology in that one week on the road than I did in the previous, you know, three to four years in the classroom.