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National Geographic Visit

       

October 13, 2005

The photos above shows a film crew from National Geographic shooting scenes for a documentary about a specific tornado event. A model of a structure struck by a tornado was constructed and tested in the WiST lab's Tornado/Microburst Simulator for the show.