Texas Tech University scientists will also deploy the A probe (a.k.a. Probe 1 or P1) which utilizes a prop anemometer as the wind sensing instrument. It also features a shielded temperature and relative humidity probe, and a barometric pressure sensor.

Particle probes/disdrometers

Particle probes/disdrometers

Texas Tech Stick Net P1 deployed during Hurricane Ike in 2008.

Deploying Stick-Net

NSSL's Susan Cobb works on two laptops to upload video to a network TV station.

VORTEX2 hits the road with an impressive array of vehicles and equipment.

Lightning over National Severe Storms Laboratory mobile mesonet.

VORTEX2 field command vehicle in vicinity of thunderstorm

VORTEX2 field command vehicle during preparations for VORTEX2

VORTEX2 field command vehicle in vicinity of thunderstorm

VORTEX2 field command vehicle with tornado in sight.

Shared Mobile Atmospheric Research and Teaching Radar (SMART-R) sends out a radio wave with a 5.5cm wavelength used to detect precipitation. SR1 and SR2 were both used in VORTEX2.

NO-XP radar scanning before the storm during VORTEX2 operations.

NO-XP radar antenna prior to operations in VORTEX2

NO-XP radar during VORTEX2 operations.

NCAR's David Dowell and Rasmussen Systems Erik Rasmussen coordinate V2 from inside an ambulance outfitted with communication and computer equipment.

Mobile Mesonet vehicle stopped alongside the road with storm ahead.

Hail damage to vehicles is part of the routine.

Hail damage to vehicles is part of the routine.

Hail damage to vehicles is part of the routine.

Spectacular thunderstorm and super cell clouds observed during VORTEX2.

Spectacular thunderstorm and super cell clouds observed during VORTEX2.

Spectacular thunderstorm and super cell clouds observed during VORTEX2.

Spectacular thunderstorm and super cell clouds observed during VORTEX2.

Spectacular thunderstorm and super cell clouds observed during VORTEX2.

Spectacular thunderstorm and super cell clouds observed during VORTEX2.

Spectacular thunderstorm and super cell clouds observed during VORTEX2.

A thunderstorm in the Texas Panhandle

Spectacular thunderstorm and super cell clouds observed during VORTEX2.

Spectacular thunderstorm and super cell clouds observed during VORTEX2.

Spectacular thunderstorm and super cell clouds observed during VORTEX2.

Spectacular thunderstorm and super cell clouds observed during VORTEX2.

Lightning over the Great Plains

Lightning over the Great Plains

Lightning over the Great Plains

Lightning over the Great Plains

Lightning over the Great Plains

Lightning over the Great Plains

Not all hotels had a large meeting area that could accommodate all V2 participants assembled for the briefing - this one did.

VORTEX2 principal investigators plot the next step from the Field Command Vehicle. Left to right, Chris Weiss (TTU), Josh Wurman (CSWR), Yvette Richardson (PSU), David Dowell (NCAR), Howie Bluestein (OU), and Lou Wicker (NSSL).

Harald Richter is interviewed by CNN

NSSL's Ted Mansell pulls out plates to help stabilize the NOAA X-Pol mobile radar.

Lou Wicker, VORTEX2 PI and steering committee member.

Keli Tarp was in the field when V2 caught their only tornado of the year

Good Morning America videographer zooms in on the action during VORTEX2

Sean Waugh, OU meteorology student, with Mobile Mesonet Probe 2. Sean was responsible for building the mobile mesonets.

Center for Interdisciplineary Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Studies Mobile Weather Radar -2005

Doppler on Wheels owned by the Center for Severe Weather Research. DOW6 and DOW7 are both X-Band (3cm). Rapid-Scan DOW transmits 12 simultaneous beams. This is DOW6. This was one of a number of radars and mobile mesonets deployed around the storm by the VORTEX2 team.

HMMMMM! Must be a tornado around here somewhere. Doppler on Wheels (DOW) owned by the Center for Severe Weather Research. Rapid-Scan DOW transmits 12 simultaneous beams. This is DOW7.