Check out this first-ever 3D #tornado data set from the #Dominator 3

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]Check out the first ever ground-up 3D data set inside a tornado.

[00:00:05]Oh boy.

[00:00:10]Check out the first ever ground-up three-dimensional data set of wind and thermodynamics inside of a tornado. This was inside of the Blue Rapids, Kansas tornado, and this one was rated an EF1, but we measured winds in excess of 115 mph very near the ground in the first couple revolutions around this tornado.

[00:00:29]We measured a peak wind of 131 mph a little bit higher up inside of the dynamic pipe, but this also shows the pressure deficit inside of the tornado with height with height as it was lifted up. Uh this sensor was streaming this data live inside of this tornado, and we were measuring the surface wind and thermodynamics with the Dominator 3 at the ground level to maintain that ground-up data set. This measures the thermodynamics from the ground all the way through the vent in the upper part of the tornado above about 6,000 ft, and we had a peak pressure deficit uh as well inside of this tornado. We were able to measure the pressure deficit because we had GPS altitude and we also had the expected pressure at that altitude, and that way we're able to compute a pressure deficit from the ground-up inside of this tornado. And this feature is very interesting. You could see this tight little loop that the probe did. This parachute probe, which is driven entirely by the winds inside of the tornado, it may have sampled a sub-vortex or more likely was pulled out of the dynamic pipe of the tornado and into some drier air and then immediately entrained back into the tornado cyclone. Uh but this uh data set sampled a vent at the top of the tornado between about 6 and 10,000 ft, and we believe that the strength of the vertical velocities inside of the vent at the upper part of the dynamic pipe is proportional to tornado intensity. And uh these incredible three-dimensional data visualizations are available live as well on Will play 25 did some incredible work to make this real-time scientific data available to everybody in three dimensions and you can check it out in real-time.

[00:02:10]Check out the first ever ground up 3D data set inside a tornado.

[00:02:24]You show that loop >> bottom? Yeah.

[00:02:27]I'm missing >> That's the launch.

[00:02:29]That's that first loop.

[00:02:31]This first loop happened in an altitude >> when it's rotating. Yeah. High swirl ratio.

[00:02:36]And then we missed this data between 5:24 another loop that we don't have logged.

[00:02:46]Yeah, it seems like the first loop happened in less than It's vertical speed.

[00:02:51]Let's see launch point. It became equal rotation. closer.

[00:02:56]This is in that first loop right here.

[00:02:58]Yeah. That first loop horizontal speed