Photo of the Drumright, Oklahoma tornado on June 8, 1974 The Drumright tornado photogrpahed near Oak Grove, looking toward the southwest. At the time of this photo, the tornado was in southeastern Payne County, approaching Drumright. Photo by Larry Adkisson. This tornado, or possible series ...
CAPE, orConvective Available Potential Energy, is among the necessary ingredients for storms. If CAPE is zero, the atmosphere is stable. Measured in Joules per kilogram (j/kg), values near or over 500-1,000 j/kg are often about the low-end needed for widespread severe weather chances. Val...
“The Osage Indians, native to Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri passed on tornado legends to the early settlers. One such legend has it that tornadoes will not strike between two rivers, near the point where the rivers join….Emporia, Kansas had sat "protected" between the Cottonwood and Neosho...
Now this isn’t to say that you should be blasé about tornado warnings. It is easy to get that way when you live in a place where the sirens often go off without anything happening. But experts think that’s exactly why the death toll from the 2011 Joplin, Missouri tornado was so hi...
So to understand what's happening at ground level, you have to figure out another way to see inside a tornado. And that's not easy. BRANTLEY HARGROVE (JOURNALIST): It's weird to think that, you know, towards the end of the 20th century, we had no data at ground level from inside ...
As an aside, when I was drivng around last year, from western Oklahoma all the way up to Nebraska and beyond, I came to the conclusion that the population density in these parts is not all that different to say, SE QLD, the northern rivers, northwest slopes (near the ranges) or the ...