Introduction - Severe Convective Storms and Tornadoes: Observations and Dynamics - page 16

Figure 1.11. Waterspouts and tornadoes as seen from airborne platforms. (Top) Waterspout
in the Florida Keys from a private aircraft on September 3, 1971; (middle row, left to right)
waterspout in the Florida Keys from a NOAA helicopter on August 24, 1993, tornado from the
NOAA P-3 on May 29, 1994; (bottom row) tornado over eastern Colorado on June 8, 1994
from the NOAA P-3, tornado over the Texas Panhandle on June 8, 1995 from ELDORA.
(photographs by the author)
tory, that NSSL began conducting a Tornado Intercept Project, spurred on in part
by Bruce Morgan, an engineer from Notre Dame University, who had proposed
driving an instrumented, armored vehicle into tornadoes and making in situ meas-
urements. (This idea was not realized until the early 2000s when IMAX
photographer Sean Casey developed the Tornado Intercept Vehicle or TIV).
NSSL and the University of Oklahoma (OU), under the direction of Bob Davies-
Jones, conducted storm intercept experiments in Oklahoma between 1975 and
1986. Alan Moller and Chuck Doswell, students at OU during the early 1970s,
combined many of their photographs to devise a visual model of tornadic super-