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Career:
2006-present: GIS Technician - City of Leavenworth,
Leavenworth, Kansas.
2004: Intern - NASA,
Research:
Education:
Credits:
Storm Chasing:
Scott
Currens brings a Geosciences background to chasing having
earned his Bachelor of Arts in Geography from the University
of Oklahoma. He works for the City of Leavenworth as a
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Technician. His
interests in remote sensing and damage survey methodologies
lead him to develop a method for identifying tornado damage
though the study of tree-ring characteristics; this is an
avenue that may lead to better understanding and
reconstruction of historic tornado events. Scott conducted
and composed an independent aerial and ground survey of the
May 12, 2004 F4 tornado in Harper, KS that was studied by
National Weather Service personnel and the National Severe
Storms Laboratory (NSSL).
Scott
enjoyed an historic 2004 chase season observing forty-two
tornadoes from supercells that are the stuff of legend,
including May 29th in Harper County, Kansas when he
witnessed twelve tornadoes from a storm later nicknamed “The
Tornado Machine.” As well, Scott intercepted the Harper,
Kansas F4 and the Conway Springs, Kansas F3 along with
dozens of other supercells and tornadoes. Among past
highlights, Scott chased the legendary May 3, 1999 outbreak
and the Moore, Oklahoma F5 tornado, the last U.S. tornado
rated at the top of the original Fujita scale. Scott also observed
the Girard, Kansas and Pierce City, Missouri violent
tornadoes of 2003. In 9 years of chasing Scott has driven
over 100,000 miles across 26 states to observe 112 tornadoes
and countless hailstorms, some with hail larger than
softballs. In 2000, Scott drove and operated a Mobile Mesonet (MM) vehicle during the Severe Thunderstorm
Electrification and Precipitation Study (STEPS) conducted by
the National Severe Storms Lab. Using sophisticated mobile
instrumentation, Scott’s MM was assigned the task of finding
and documenting the largest hydrometeors in the hail core of
supercells
In 2004, Scott was awarded a grant for
the University of Oklahoma‘s Geospatial Summer Institute
and, as an intern with NASA, contributed to the development
of a 3D visualization of atmospheric water vapor. In
addition to his meteorological research and storm chasing
experience, Scott is an accomplished videographer. His storm
footage has aired world wide on all major networks, CNN, and
the Weather Channel. Scott holds Amateur Radio license
KE5AIV and lives in Leavenworth, Kansas with his wife Mary.
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