A second twister briefly accompanied it. Steve Thompson, a meteorologist with the Oklahoma Mesonet, was storm-chasing and happened to capture that storm from a wide perspective near Palo Duro Canyon.

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Racing towards a potentially deadly storm may sound like an absurd thing to do – but for some scientific researchers, chasing extreme weather can be enlightening as well as exhilarating.