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The tornado-chasing Doppler on Wheels radar truck is set up at Lake Point on Interstate-80 west of Salt Lake City to measure an approaching cold front. With National Science Foundation funding, University of Utah meteorologists are using the advanced radar technology to study winter storms. Photo Credit: Jim Steenburgh, University of Utah

Storm chaser truck tracking Wasatch Front weather

Last updated Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 10:45am

SALT LAKE CITY - A truck-mounted radar dish often used to chase Midwest tornadoes is getting a workout in Utah this month as University of Utah meteorologists use it to get an unprecedented look inside snow and rain storms over the Salt Lake Valley and the surrounding Wasatch and Oquirrh mountains.

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Live from Tornado Alley, it's all chases all the time

Aaron Barnhart, McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 9:46am

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- When Independence, Mo., tornado chasers Leslie and Dean Burton take to their 1999 Jeep Cherokee during severe storm season, there's a new piece of equipment riding with them.

A dash-cam streams to the Web live video of whatever they're seeing through their windshield. And they're not alone. More than 250 chasers roaming tornado country this year are allowing anyone with broadband to vicariously ride shotgun through the biggest storm season in 40 years.

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