Bluestein

Tornado researcher Howard B. Bluestein of the University of Oklahoma says his best guess is this unusual outburst of twisters is due to natural variability of the weather.

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Adam Bluestein, who has two children and lives in Burlington, Vt., never rides without a helmet.

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Bluestein went on to cite that one factor in the storms 'intensity was the record warmth in Oklahoma (84 degrees) which the storm moved through on its "path of destruction."

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Bluestein and his students packed a small, portable Doppler in the truck and started searching for a supercell.

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In 1981, Bluestein and others created the Totable Tornado Observatory, a fifty-five-gallon hardened drum crammed with instruments.

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Bluestein studied the plain vanilla thunderstorms, the nonsupercells, that produced frequent but often weaker tornadoes—landspouts, as he called them.

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Bluestein had come to OU from MIT in the late 1970s and helped pioneer the scientific storm chase.

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On stormy days, he: Author interview with Bluestein, Apr. 2005.

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Using the portable Doppler, Bluestein for the first time documented a violent tornado in 1991, a huge twister near Red Rock, Oklahoma.

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