accomplishments
Tim Samaras had many major accomplishments in engineering to understand the true power of tornadoes, and the other violent types of weather that go along with these tornadoes.
This is the diagram of the barometric pressure drop in the Manchester, South Dakota tornado of 100 millibars
Tim Samaras chased this tornado in Manchester, South Dakota in April of 2006. Where for the first time was trying out his new probes that he invented to place directly in the path of this EF-4 tornado with winds of over 200 miles per hour. Tim successfully deployed his probe into the path of this tornado, and to have his probe survive and his own life.
That night in a cheap motel, Tim Samaras reviewed the footage he collected, and the scientific data from his probe. With this he discovered an amazing phenomena of a barometric pressure drop of 100 millibars in the center of this tornado. A barometric pressure drop in which scientist thought couldn't be possible in a tornado. Until Tim Samaras got proof that it can.
Tim Samaras also created some of the amazing technology inside his weather chasing vehicle. His truck has over 1,000 pounds of geeky technology that is lethal for tornado research. On the hood of his vehicle are cubes that measure hailstone impact. When a hailstone hits one of the squares, it will measure the force of impact. How huge the hailstone is depends on how strong the storm's updraft is. The bigger the hailstone the stronger the updraft.
Tim has a much larger, and stronger probe that he has in the back of his storm chasing vehicle. It has a bunch of instruments on it to measure the tornado's intensity, speed, pressure, and temperature. Tim has another interesting element on his probe. Smoke bombs on the top of the probe. Tim discovered this when he was chasing a storm when a lightning bolt struck an petroleum or oil tower, and caught on fire. The smoke was sucked up into the atmosphere so Tim and his crew could understand what the wind fields were like in a developing tornado. When the smoke bomb is activated and if the tornado goes over the probe, they are hoping to provide visualization of the tornado sort of like an x-ray.
That night in a cheap motel, Tim Samaras reviewed the footage he collected, and the scientific data from his probe. With this he discovered an amazing phenomena of a barometric pressure drop of 100 millibars in the center of this tornado. A barometric pressure drop in which scientist thought couldn't be possible in a tornado. Until Tim Samaras got proof that it can.
Tim Samaras also created some of the amazing technology inside his weather chasing vehicle. His truck has over 1,000 pounds of geeky technology that is lethal for tornado research. On the hood of his vehicle are cubes that measure hailstone impact. When a hailstone hits one of the squares, it will measure the force of impact. How huge the hailstone is depends on how strong the storm's updraft is. The bigger the hailstone the stronger the updraft.
Tim has a much larger, and stronger probe that he has in the back of his storm chasing vehicle. It has a bunch of instruments on it to measure the tornado's intensity, speed, pressure, and temperature. Tim has another interesting element on his probe. Smoke bombs on the top of the probe. Tim discovered this when he was chasing a storm when a lightning bolt struck an petroleum or oil tower, and caught on fire. The smoke was sucked up into the atmosphere so Tim and his crew could understand what the wind fields were like in a developing tornado. When the smoke bomb is activated and if the tornado goes over the probe, they are hoping to provide visualization of the tornado sort of like an x-ray.
This video shows how Tim's Probe distributes smoke to see the wind fields
Tim has a camera well 82 cameras all hooked together to capture and slow down lightning to see the birth of a lightning strike. He calls this camera the "Big Kahuna". The camera slows lightning down to 150 million frames per second.
This video shows tim's lightning camera called the "Big Kahuna" slows down lightning.
Another major accomplishment that Tim had was that as smart as he is, he never went to college. He became an entirely smart man, and a great job without a college diploma. Tim also self- taught himself. He taught himself how to engineer and build amazing machines, and instruments from things around the house.