A warning is issued when severe weather has developed, is already occurring and reported, or is detected on radar. If a tornado has been spotted by the public or law enforcement, or if a thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado has been detected by radar, the local office of the Nationa...
Strong to severe thunderstorms took aim at Florida on Monday, April 20, from the same weather system thatspawned destructive storms in other parts of the South on Sunday, April 19. Just over 150 reports of severe weather – including damaging winds or wind damage, tornadoes and larg...
Severe Weather Awareness Week in Colorado concludes today. During the past week we have presented information and safety rules for tornadoes, lightning and wildfires, floods and flash floods, straight-line thunderstorm winds, hail, and our warning programs. We will now review some of the...
but thereafter declined by a much larger 18.3% per decade over the period 1980-2012...Consequently, they conclude that their results "imply that global warming is likely to cause a decrease in the conditions required for severe thunderstorm and hail formation in the TP over the next century...
The threat started Wednesday night when the National Weather Service began issuing tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings in Oklahoma, Kansas and Iowa. Forecasters warned people to find shelter. "My priority was keeping everybody safe so I hustled everybody into the walk-in," said Bekah Inman...
Local National Weather Service offices will issue these warnings with details about where the tornado is located and what towns will be in its path. If the tornado is near the coast, a special marine warning may also accompany the tornado warning, or if there is also a thunderstorm, a...
Since HKO’s Thunderstorm Warning database began in 1967, there are a total of 65 TCs necessitating the hosting of the Gale or Storm Wind Signal, No.8 or higher. Among the 65 cases, 14 typhoons (including severe and super typhoons) necessitated the issuance of Signal No.9 or No.10. ...
Currently, the singular application of model integration techniques to severe convective weather focuses on extreme weather events, including the use of radar reflectivity data for thunderstorm warnings [57] and high-resolution rapid refresh (HRRR) 1–24 h forecasts to predict catastrophic weather ...