Meteorologist Thea Sandmael watched the storm close in. It was near enough for her to spot a rotating dome of clouds emerging from its dark underbelly — the quickening of a tornado. By the time the spinning mass was 10 minutes away, Sandmael and her colleagues had shut down their radar instruments and evacuated their post.
“Just keep going,” she advised her colleague behind the wheel, who was rightly focused on maneuvering their SUV down the remote Alabama road. Following behind was another colleague in a truck carrying their cumbersome radar equipment. Evacuating was a good decision, she reflects: “We were sitting on the west side of the road,
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