These items listed are the higher cost essentials for the probe. We appreciate you all for helping along by funding our project, as it's essential for the our goal of success by completing this project at the fullest potential.

Additional Information

The main datatype we're attempting to collect are windspeed, humidity, surface temperature in degrees Fahrenheit, and especially the dramatic pressure drop in hPa (millibars) around 1 to 20 Hz (samples per second). The pressure drop is especially more crucial to measure in a convenient method with the use of remote controlled probes within tornadoes because it will give meteorologist a better understanding about the strength/damage characteristics and tornado dynamics while in a method that promotes more opportunities to perform successful trials.

About the pressure drop, performing more trials of collecting pressure drop will enhance our understanding of tornado strength and the damage characteristics left behind. Using our remote control probe, "Q.T.I.P.", will also give us an opportunity to calculate the "Pressure Gradient Force", the main driver to why lower pressures leads to stronger wind field and the Centrifugal Coriolis Force. The most viewed evidence to extreme damage from pressure drop occurred with the Smithville EF5 during the infamous super outbreak of 2011. The pressure drop estimated to be 100+ hPa which lead to a extremely strong inflow jet. This was strong enough to suck curtains and window blinds out of the window, yards away from the actual center of the tornado, as long with major ground scouring in the fields and even pavement.

In addition in the damage left behind Measuring air pressure is also crucial in having meteorologist have a better understanding the science behind the vortex dynamics. Examining tornado videos on the web, I noticed a noticeable difference in tornadoes that occur along a streamwise vorticity line in an open warm sector and dryline or cold front storms. Most dryline storms, especially in tornado alley go trough the process of the Dynamic Pipe Effect. On the other hand, open warm sector storms are often associated with tornadoes with a more messy vortex structure with a strong sustained wind field. Due to higher CAPE, sometimes nearing 4000-5000 kJ (joules per kilogram) within open warm sectors, the stronger instability will lead to more lift in the atmosphere--leading to stronger and taller updrafts from the warm buoyant air. With the vertical forcing nature of the updraft, the vorticity of the mesocyclone will tighten, resulting in the conservation of angular momentum. With the faster spin of air molecules, the pressure will drop via the Bernoulli Effect. Due to the often lower pressures in warm sector supercell tornadoes, thermodynamic cooling and lower air density will lead to a rapid condensing of the condensation funnel within the wind field without the dynamic pipe effect. In a video recorded courtesy of BaseHunters, showed the rapid condensing of the Joplin EF5, fully condensing into a half mile wide wedge within seconds. With a method that promotes more successful trials of measuring pressure drop within a tornado, conducting experiments such as comparing a tornado with a dynamic pipe effect or a tornado with a messy condensation funnel.

In conclusion, measuring data more conveniently with the datatypes: ground level wind speeds, humidity, surface temps in Fahrenheit, and dramatic pressure drop will give the meteorology field a better understanding in tornado genesis. With the data measured, we can use the dataset to interpret it into tornado dynamics and damage characteristics. Having this understanding, meteorologists can have a better understanding of the science behind tornado dynamics, as well as conducting more accurate damage surveys and more effective early warnings.