Tornadoes on TV

06-08-06

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Annette Hacker, director,
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A crew from the National Geographic Channel films Iowa State's Tornado/Microburst Simulator in Howe Hall last October. The crew's show will focus on a 1994 storm outbreak that created 18 tornadoes in four states, including the March 27 tornado near Piedmont, Ala., that hit the Goshen United Methodist Church and killed 20 people.

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Tornadoes on TV

Iowa State University tornadoes will be blowing across America's television screens. The National Geographic Channel will air "Anatomy of a Tornado" at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Thursday, June 8. The show will be rebroadcast at 3 p.m. Thursday, June 15. The show features Iowa State's Tornado/Microburst Simulator created by Partha Sarkar, an Iowa State professor of aerospace engineering; Fred Haan, an Iowa State assistant professor of aerospace engineering; and Bill Gallus, an Iowa State professor of geological and atmospheric sciences.