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Show Bs The Salt Lake Tribune TRAVEL Sunday, June 24; 2001 "BY JUDI BOLAND THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OKLAHOMA CITY — When severe weather threatens, experienced storm trackers head out to look for signs of tornadoes and report their findings to the National Weather Service andtelevisionstations. More often not, they find they are not alone. Thrill-seekers, entrepreneurs and the curious are out in Austin, Texas, and CastleRock. Hetells the driver, Laura Cowen of Santa Monica, Calif., where: to head forthe: best storm viewing. He--studies. weather information at night on ‘his laptop comptiter: to determine where the tour-might-be headed the F5 Tornado Safari of Castle Rock, Colo., is one of several companies offering people the chance to see a tornado.. For $1,850, the company transports The license plate. says “F5CHASR.” F%is theclassification for the most intense type of tornado. Chris Margison, 47, a letter carrier from Tacoma, Wash., took his second tour recently. “I have seen funnels, but I want to get even closer,”- he said. “I just like the excitement.” Also on the tour was David Dildine,18, of Reston, Va., who plans to attend Penn State next year and major in meteorology. management Mcintosh County in southeast Oklahoma. He said his county recently had seven separate tornadoes inone day. “When. thé tornado went’ over the turnpike there was a there too, clogging roads and courting danger. people throughout the Midwest and Southwest for a week in a black, 1994 GMC Suburban, aboratory: Entering Hutchinson, Kan., around 1 p.m., Potter spotted signs of rotating clouds to the east. The chase was on. With a radar detector acti- vated to avoid traffic ticket, the tour driver sped to an intersection already lined with a TV station’s satellite truck, two researchers from the University of Kansas with cameras on tripods, a high school teacher who moonlights as a storm spotter, and several carloads of’ curious si @ Answers to Where Are You? ‘The Photo: Puerta de Alcala is in Madrid, Spain: ~~ The Map: The state is Iowa. Look for Madrid at the © top left. ‘ % “We just don’t get weather like this back home,” Dildine said. “This is my dream.” Improvements in meteorology have made suchtours pos- SanDiego sible. Modern weather radar pinpoints storm systems likely DAYS INN - HOTEL HOLIDAY INN CARLSBAD .. to produce tornadoes and accurately tracks the movements of these storms. 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