Whats the chance of being caught in a tornado (US)?
Very small chance; less than 1 %. Storm Chaser Facts Where are you from? Rob, Coen and Eric are meteorologist at Meteo Consult and we all work and live in Wageningen. Jules is a freelancer in meteorology and is living, nowadays, in the extreme north-eastern sections of the Netherlands. What is your background? Verrijn Stuart has always been interested in weather. He began his full-time career as an economist at KNMI, the Netherlands weather service. While there, he decided to become a meteorologist.. Four years ago, Verrijn Stuart joined Meteo Consult, which put him through a rigorous training program and made him a forecaster. Stuart’s scariest chase moment occurred April 30, 2000: “We were finishing a day of chasing and a squall line was approaching. It was getting dark so it was hard to see anything. We knew the storm was approaching, but we didn’t know what was coming. A tornado could easily have been there and we wouldn’t have seen it.” Fortunately for the team, the squall line pa