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Totable Tornado Laboratory(TOTO)

• Developed by Howard Bluestein (OU) and Al Bedard (WPL) in 1980.
• Deployed from 1981-1985. Collected data under several tornadic storms.
• Hard to get into the direct path of the tornado.
• Spearheaded the effort to obtain in situ data from supercells.

[Image shows a 55-gallon cylinder contained in a square tubular frame, with atmospheric instruments mounted on top]