Storm Chasers | Tornado Alley | S47-E1

American Innovations

Wondery

Steven Johnson, History, Kids & Family, Education For Kids, Science

4.6 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

No extreme weather phenomenon fascinates us more than tornadoes. For most of human history, very little was known about how these graceful yet violent columns of swirling air formed or behaved. Then, in the 1950s, a teenager from North Dakota began chasing them, and a scientist from Japan began studying them. Together, they started a movement.

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0:17.0	It's May 25th, 1965.
0:25.0	26 year old David Hoadley drives through the fields of southwestern Kansas, peering out his windows every few seconds to check the cloudy skies.
0:35.0	He's on the hunt for tornadoes.
0:38.0	The forecast this morning seemed promising, but so far nothing.
0:42.0	He glances down at his camera on the front seat beside him, hoping
0:46.1	he'll get a chance to use it.
0:48.3	The radio pulls him back to Earth.
0:50.4	This is a Ford County Radar Weather Report.
0:53.0	A severe weather warning has been issued for Ashland, Coldwater, and Medicine Lodge.
0:57.0	Thunderstorms with large hail and high winds are expected between 1 PM and 5 PM local time.
1:02.0	Yes, now it's on.
1:05.0	Hodeley accelerates down the two-lane highway and scans the flat horizon,
1:09.0	trying to spot where the winds are whipping.
1:12.0	He sees cumulonimbus clouds building to the south and the familiar
1:16.1	cottonball shapes of a modest clouds just beyond them. All good signs.
1:21.3	Hodley's been chasing tornadoes for nine years.
1:24.6	He's gotten close many times, but never close enough to capture a good photo of one.
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