Module 08: Spotter safety & positioning

The risk record, the one tornado that ever killed storm chasers, and why experience did not save the most experienced people in the field. (25 min)

The behaviors that produce spotter crashes, the two-person rule that prevents most of them, and why fatigue is a weather hazard. (30 min)

No safe place outside, why your car protects you and what does not, and the half of lightning deaths that happen after the rain stops. (25 min)

The safe viewing quadrant of a classic supercell, why core-punching is prohibited, and what is inside the notch that looks so inviting. (30 min)

Five environments, the assumptions lesson 4 makes that each of them breaks, and the one skill that works in all of them: knowing your roads before you need them. (30 min)

A tornado while driving, an overpass, hail, straight-line wind and water over a road. What the NWS actually says, including where it declines to give you one answer. (30 min)

Why fixed-location spotting is the real thing rather than the consolation prize, why night changes the answer, and what to have in the car. (20 min)

The cognitive traps, three checklists borrowed from trades that solved this before us, and the debrief that turns one outing into better judgment for the next. (25 min)