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Television

Media Source Name	Date	Title or description of Movie
" Lord of the Rings - Return of the King "	Dec-03	Images used as background scenes for the movie
" "The World Around US - Australia's Dealiest Destinations" "	June 4 2005	Storm Chasers David Croan and Jimmy Deguara interviewed about the devastating hailstorm chase where the windscreen gets smashed.
Totally Wild segment Network Ten.	March 9 2005	Totally Wild segment on TBT storm chasers Jimmy Deguara and Matthew Piper.
A Current Affair - hail storm story	Feb 22 2005	Car battered by giant hailstones
Sixty Minutes	Jul-04	Sixty Minutes crew filmed storm TBT chasers in Tornado Alley
A Current Affair	Jan-Feb 2004	TBT chasers interviewed to give lightning safety information
A Current Affair	Jun-04	TBT Tornado Alley Storm Chasing
Today Show Channel Nine	Early 2001	Interview and video used
Today Show Channel Nine	Aug-02	Video from after the US tour used
Today Tonight
National Geographic	Friday, 27 July 2001	One Day, One World, The Weather
Storm Warning	1999	Storm Warning, Episode 301
Storm Warning	1999	Storm Warning, Episode 302
Green Umbrella Productions		One episode using lightning
Witchita Kansas TV	Sunday, 3 June 2001	TBT chasers in Tornado Alley, Kansas TV Interview
Weather Channel	Sunday, 5 November 2000	Live interview about storms and possible tornadoes northern NSW
Weather Channel	Thursday, 2 October 2003	Footage aired of storms 1st October 2003 violent storms
Prime TV, Tamworth	Thursday, 2 October 2003	Footage aired of storms 1st October 2003 violent storms

Radio

Media Source Name	Date	Title or description of Radio interview
SWR FM 99.9	Saturday, 14th August 2004	2 hour interview with DJ Brendon - "Storm Chasing"
Toronto, Canada Radio	Friday, 9 July 2004	Storm Chasing Tours interview
2UE	Saturday afternoon program, 2002	Thunderbolt Storm Chasing Tours
2UE	Steve Price, 2003 -2004	Steve Price, 2003 -2004
2UE	Steve Price, February 2004	Severe storm event Feb 2004
ABC Sydney	Floods	Floods
ABC National
ABC Canberra	8/10/2002	Following article in The Sydney Morning Herald
Radio 2 1611 AM	8/10/2002	Mike Bailey Following article in The Sydney Morning Herald The Sunday Telegraph followed with an article
Adelaide radio	2004	Following article in TheDaily Telegraph
4BC Brisbane	1998	Severe storms in Queensland and storm chasing
3AW Melbourne	2002-2003	Severe storms and storm chasing
Radio Kurri Kurri 2 NUR FM	2003	Storm Chasing and severe storms
Radio Newcastle	2004	Following Daily Telegraph, Page 3 Interview
ABC North Coast	6/10/1999	Severe weather
ABC North Coast	6/11/2000	North Coast severe weather
ABC Statewide	18/1/2001	Casino storm damage and storm chasing
ABC Statewide	28/12/2001	Sydney to Hobart yacht race tornado
ABC Radio National	10/2/2002	Weather talkback
ABC North Coast and 2LM	27/6/2003	East Coast Lows
ABC Radio National	5/5/2004	Storm chasing
ABC North Coast	21/6/2004	Snow chasing

Newspapers

Media Source Name	Date	Title and page number of article
Daily Telegraph	Monday, 19 April 2004	Lightning the way for web watchers, page 3
Daily Telegraph	Thursday, 2 December 1999	The Rinse Cycle: Nature's Rhythms ruin our weekends, page 5
Daily Telegraph	Saturday, 13 December 2003	The Storm Cells Out: Thunderbolts and Lightning were very, very, very, strange, page 11
Daily Telegraph	Thursday, 18 March 2004	Getting it straight on Twisters, Page 16
Sunday Telegraph	Sunday, 23 December 2001	Addicted to Storms: Nature's magic moments, Page 26
Sunday Telegraph	I think 2002	Followed an article copying Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald	Tuesday, 8 October 2002	Charge of the Lightning Brigade , Page 7
The Sydney Morning Herald	Wednesday, 2 July 2003	Dream Job - Storm Chaser: The Lightning Bod, Page 20
The Sydney Morning Herald, Summer Metropolitan	Monday, 23 December 2002	Extreme Sydney, Page 2
The Sydney Morning Herald, The Good Weekend	Saturday, 10 March 2001	Days of Thunder, Page 28-32
The Australian	Saturday, 1 July 2000	Rainspotters go out more than most, Page 15
The Blacktown Advocate	Wednesday, 5 May 2004	The Storm Hunter, Front page
The Blacktown Advocate	Friday, 2 July 2004	Storm Chaser in Spotlight Page 4
The Blacktown City Sun	Tuesday, 7 January 2003	Lightning tours: Chance to hunt weather, Front page
St Marys Star	Tuesday, 13 April 2004	Teacher in Eye of the Storm: Rooty Hill leading weather watch, Page 7
The Daily Examiner	Sunday, 11 January 1998	Tim and Jim humt the 'holy grail' of storms, Page 3
Collin County Community College	2001	Article on storm chasers helping at Tech Camp
Collin County Community College	2002	Article on storm chasers helping at Tech Camp

Magazines

Media Source Name	Date	Title and page of article
Brigade, RFS magazine	Dec, 2001	Front page
Scientriffic	May-June 2001	Hail, Page 16-17
Scientriffic	Jan-Feb 2002	Page 3-5
Vaisala, Safe Solutions for Aviation Weather Observation		Page 14
Natural Disaster Management		Brochure, Reducing the Impact of flooding
Natural Disaster Management		Support in times of Disaster
Ralph Magazine	Jul-Aug 2000	Reality "Twister", Page 65
101 Things to do on the Internet	1998	Join a weather project, Page 31
Wolrd Vision	Sep 2001	The approaching Storm, HIV/AIDS in Asia, Front page
Prolighting	1997	Night Shots: A Guide to Professional LightninTechniques, Page 148-149
Was Spuckt ein Vulkan	Jan 2003	Page 27
AMP "Parrot"	1995 Autumn Issue	Front page, also page 4-5
The Co-operators		Front page
Journal of Meteorology	In print	Camden LP supercell 12th February 2003,