“It would seem to me that a seasoned storm chaser would realize setting up North-east of an active storm, was about the worst thing you could possibly do.”
Very true if your objective is stay out of the tornado’s way. But, these guys are trying to stay in front of the thing so that they can drop their probes in the expected path.
Looks like in this case that they were roughly paralleling it west-to-east when the darn thing made a hard left turn right into them and they couldn’t react fast enough.
That’s a reasoned retort.
Seems like they could set up a truck and some drop probe set-ups, so they could go down a road and drop them off in a line, so the storm could naturally run across one of them without them having to be right in front of it at the time of passage.