Mark Robinson | |
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Alma mater | York University, University of Guelph |
Occupation(s) | Meteorologist, Television Presenter |
Employer | The Weather Network |
Website | Stormhunter.ca |
Mark Robinson (born 27 January 1973) is a Canadian television meteorologist and storm chaser. He co-hosts the television series Storm Hunters and Unearthed, has appeared on the television series Angry Planet , and has made numerous other media appearances. In 2015, Robinson was named one of Canada's 100 greatest modern-day explorers by Canadian Geographic, [1] and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. [2]
A storm chaser since 2000, Robinson has documented dozens of tornadic storms and landfalling hurricanes / tropical storms, including the EF3 El Reno Tornado, [3] Category 5 Hurricane Katrina in Gulfport, Mississippi, [4] and Category 3 Hurricane Sandy in New York City, New York. [5] He was the first Weather Network reporter to broadcast live from a hurricane (Katrina) and livestream a tornadic storm (from Oklahoma).
Robinson created and, with The Weather Network's Jaclyn Whittal, co-hosts the television series Stormhunters. [6] [ failed verification ] The series has appeared on The Weather Network in Canada, Sky in the United Kingdom, and National Geographic Channel in New Zealand and Australia. The series chronicles the adventures of the duo (and occasionally adventurer George Kourounis) as they travel across North America documenting severe weather.
Robinson co-hosts the television series Unearthed [7] with George Kourounis, documenting natural and wild areas of the planet. The duo has so far travelled through the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic, Greenland Arctic, and Antarctica. The series has been shown in Canada on The Weather Network.
He has also appeared on the television series Angry Planet [8] as an occasional guest. Angry Planet has been shown in Canada on OLN, City-TV and The Weather Network, The Weather Channel in Australia, and the Travel Channel worldwide.
Robinson has made appearances as a guest on CBC-TV, CBC-Radio, CTV, City-TV, CNN, The Weather Channel, BBC-TV, and Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet, and has been featured in articles in the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, USA Today and other dailies.
El Reno is a city in and county seat of Canadian County, Oklahoma, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 16,989, marking a change of 1.55% from 16,729, recorded in the 2010 census. The city was begun shortly after the 1889 land rush and named for the nearby Fort Reno. It is located in Central Oklahoma, about 25 miles (40 km) west of downtown Oklahoma City.
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During the early evening of Friday, May 31, 2013, an extremely large and powerful tornado occurred over rural areas of Central Oklahoma. This rain-wrapped, multiple-vortex tornado was the widest tornado ever recorded and was part of a larger weather system that produced dozens of tornadoes over the preceding days. The tornado initially touched down at 6:03 p.m. Central Daylight Time (2303 UTC) about 8.3 miles (13.4 km) west-southwest of El Reno, rapidly growing in size and becoming more violent as it tracked through central portions of Canadian County. Remaining over mostly open terrain, the tornado did not impact many structures; however, measurements from mobile weather radars revealed extreme winds up to 135.0 m/s within the vortex. These are among the highest observed wind speeds on Earth, just slightly lower than the wind speeds of the 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado. As it crossed U.S. 81, it had grown to a record-breaking width of 2.6 miles (4.2 km), beating the previous width record set in 2004. Turning northeastward, the tornado soon weakened. Upon crossing Interstate 40, the tornado dissipated around 6:43 p.m. CDT (2343 UTC), after tracking for 16.2 miles (26.1 km), it avoided affecting the more densely populated areas near and within the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.
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Hank Schyma, also known as Pecos Hank, is a musician, songwriter, filmmaker and professional storm chaser based in Houston, Texas. He has fronted the rock group Southern Backtones for over fifteen years. During the same period, he has directed, produced and starred in a full-length independent film, several music videos, and a catalogue of storm and nature documentation. He served as storm consultant on a major motion picture, and is credited with the discovery of a transient luminous weather event called a ghost.
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