- April 11 2022 - Tom Dolan
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- I recently found out that my friend
Tom Dolan passed away on April 7th at Stanford University Hospital
in Palo Alto, Ca. at age 61. He had double lung transplant surgery
last June, and despite the valiant efforts of his team of doctors,
he lost his battle.
- I knew Tom from The Explorers Club
and in 2019 we worked together chasing tornadoes along with his
brother Donald and Jade Vajna for his "Tornado Visualization
and Doppler Radar Analysis Project". We even carried one
of the club's historic flags (#114) on that project,
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- Tom was unreasonably generous, kind,
and friendly. He had a unique perspective on studying severe
weather, and I endeavoured to learn as much as I could from him
in our limited time together.
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- My most sincere condolences to Tom's
wife Kathy, and the entire Dolan family. They are the nicest
people you could ever meet and I can't imagine the grief they
are experiencing right now. It is however comforting to know
that the world was always a better place whenever Tom was around,
and he
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- Photo: In front of a rotating wall
cloud underneath a tornado warned storm in the Texas Panhandle,
near the town of Stinnet with Explorers Club flag #114. May 7th,
2019.
- L-R: Donald Dolan, George Kourounis,
Tom Dolan. Photo by Jade Vajna.
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