Project SWIRRL will be a highly integrated collaboration between severe weather scientists, expert observers and field researchers focused into a multi-faceted approach in analyzing tornado and mesocyclone dynamics and structure, damage patterns and potential assists in search and rescue efforts as requested and needed.

True damage indicators of various degrees and levels will be a major focus and derived though coordination between aerial and in-situ personnel with observations and recordings in different environments and terrain. Various fundamental Tornado & Supercell Parameters at ground, low and mid-levels will be combined to determine and extrapolate severe storms' values previously unavailable via strict computational and numerical simulations alone.

The goals of Project SWIRRL are to gain further understanding of tornadoes and tornadic environments, understanding the impacts of tornadoes in both rural and urban environments, and provide educational outreach.  Data sets will be used by SWIRRL team members and affiliates with additional private and public research institutions for analysis. Further, SWIRRL’s long term aim is to promote sustainability and resilience in communities from the effects of severe weather and climate change.

Project SWIRRL will strive to restore classic yet true methods of post-analyses with cutting edge technologies to address data gaps in given bodies of knowledge. Project SWIRRL's core mission is the assimilation of science, societal impacts, and educational outreach.

 Project SWIRRL overall goals and methods:

• In-situ observations and Analysis of Tornadoes & Mesocyclones  

• HD / Ultra-HD Photogrammetry & Velocimetry Calculations 

• Ground level Wind Flow & Damage Patterns Analysis

• Post- Storm Damage Surveys and Analysis        

• 4D reconstruction of tornado damage areas       

• Thermal Infra-Red (IR) imagery, video of tornado vortices - Thermodynamics & Debris

• Mobile Mesonets

• Presentations and Educational Outreach