SEND OUR WAY.
TERRI IT'S BEEN ALMOST A WEEK
SINCE HURRICANE LAURA TOUCHED
DOWN IN PARTS OF TEXAS AND
LOUISIANA AS THE STRONGEST
DOCUMENTED HURRICANE IN THE
U-S. AFTER CONDUCTING RESEARCH
THROUGH MULTIPLE INSTRUMENT
PLATFORMS DISTRIBUTED ALONG
THE COAST... THE TEXAS TECH
NATIONAL WIND INSTITUTE TEAM
IS BACK. KLBK'S OLIVIA
WHITEHEAD JOINS US WITH A
FIRSTHAND LOOK AT THEIR NEWLY
COLLECTED DATA
"all these little markers
indicate where we had platform
deployed from the bay of
galveston all the way down to
the lousisiana state line, you
can see how many we had across
the entire breath of the storm
including how many ended up in
the center" THE TEAM USING THE
PLATFORMS TO MEASURE THE
VARABILITY AND RADARS TO
CALCULATE THE MOTION "these
paint a pictue of what the
wind looks like we are able to
see the turbulance
structure...sticknet meaure
what the winds doing" COMING
HOME WITH A WIDE RANGE OF NEW
DATA "typically when a
hurricane makes landfall as
coming on shore theres and on
shore flow side and off shore
flow side typically on shore
is weaker than off shore what
we have seen is both side near
center were strong" BUT
INSTEAD BOTH SIDES OF THE
STORM PICKED UP WIND SPEEDS
NEAR THE CENTER "as the center
came close the winds picked up
and we had gusts of 100 or so
miles an hour these were som e
of the highest winfds we've
ever recorded" NEW TERRITORY
FOR THE REASEARCHERS...
LEAVING THEM TO VALIDATE THE
DATA THEY COLLECTED IN REAL
TIME FOR FURTHER REASEARCH.
"it's a really unique
oppurtunity to contribute to
events thats are relatively
rare but when they happen they
have a very significant impact
so its very gratifying to know
we are doing our part to help
build resiliany to these
events." OLIVIA WHITEHEAD KLBK
