STORM TRACK: March 31, 1984 (Volume 7 Issue 3)

Storm Track is pleased to accept a new addition -and somewhat of a celebrity- to the Roster.

Name                        Address                Chase country - range

Michael Bennett             1420 N. Center         North-central and northeast Texas
                            Bonham, Texas  75418
(Biography: Age 24; married; college trained in electronics technology
and law enforcement; employed as a patrol sergeant with the local police
department; also serves as the assistant civil defense coordinator for
Bonham and Fannin County; other hobbies -- short-wave and ham radio
DXing (not a ham yet, working on a license at present), weight lifting
and photography; Equipment: CANON A-l, 35mm, SLR, 28mm, 50mm and
70-220mm zoom with 2x converter.)

It was Sergeant Bennett that observed and reported the wall cloud and subsequent tornado that struck Paris, Texas about 45 minutes later, on April 2, 1982. He subsequently received a public service award from the National Weather Service. A little over a month later, he made his longest "chase" to date, following a storm from Fannin County into the Lamar and Red River counties of Texas, photographing one tornado from the numerous funnel reports this day (a pursuit of over seventy miles).