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Night-time storm chasers stalk their prey on US Plains

Nature volume 523, pages 135–136 (2015)Cite this article

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Violent nocturnal thunderstorms are hard to explain and even harder to forecast.

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Witze, A. Night-time storm chasers stalk their prey on US Plains. Nature 523, 135–136 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/523135a

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