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RIP Andy Gabrielson
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The storm chasing community lost one of their own on February 4th. Andy Gabrielson, founder of findthetornado.com died in car accident on I44 outside of Tulsa, OK. He would have been 25 on the 19th.
Many members of the stormchasing community, also members of spotternetwork.org, manually updated their locations, users of software such as the GRLevelX products would have seen this tonight:
That screen capture is courtesy of Sean Casey, and the following Facebook post tags several of the chasers who are on that map: Tribute to Andy.
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Sunday, February 05 2012 06:26:11 PM
You have no doubt seen his work, as it was widely used throughout the media.
After the game maybe I should put something up about Invest 90L out in the Yucatan channel. -
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Stormchaser81 is a very talented member of the Xtreme Weather Team whose areas of expertise include Doppler radar, satellite interpretation, severe weather warnings, and tropical weather forecasting.
Any storm predictions for early June 2013??
When is the Nor'easter gonna hit?
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Thanks for that Wotan, I have been so busy I forgot to put something on here about him. I didn't know Andy but from what I've read I know the storm chasing community is a less rich place without him.