TOtable Tornado Observatory
- TOtable Tornado Observatory
The TOtable Tornado Observatory (nicknamed "TOTO" after the dog in the movie The Wizard of Oz) is a large, instrumented metal barrel which scientists attempted to put in the path of a tornado during the 1980's. Invented in 1979 by Dr. Al Bedard and Carl Ramzy of NOAA's Environmental Technology Laboratory, it was hoped that TOTO could be placed in the path of a tornado, recording priceless data about the tornado's structure.
TOTO was deployed several times during the 1980s, but scientists were never able to get TOTO directly in the path of a tornado. On April 29, 1985, TOTO was left near the edge of a developing tornado near Ardmore, Oklahoma.[cite web |url=http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/toto.htm |title=TOTO: TOtable Tornado Observatory (Online Tornado FAQ) |accessdate=2008-06-21 ] However, it was merely blown over, even though the tornado had relatively weak winds—assumptions that TOTO could stand up to high winds turned out to be false. TOTO was retired in 1987, and is currently on display at the National Weather Center on the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman, Oklahoma.]TOTO was the inspiration for an instrument package named "Dorothy" in the 1996 film, "Twister", and for a research project in the T.V. movie "Tornado!". [IMDb: [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117998/trivia Trivia for Twister (1996)] ] [IMDb: [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117942/ "Tornado!" (1996)] ]
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* [http://www.tornadoproject.com/cellar/curiosity.htm The curiosity corner]
* [http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wtwistqa.htm Experts answer tornado questions]
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