Event Summary:Two brief QLCS tornadoes quickly developed along a line of strong to severe thunderstorms during the early morning hours, as it pushed across north central Alabama and southern middle Tennessee. This tornado produced two EF0 damage along its brief path just NW of the Lakeview area ...
created this map showing the evolution of this event over a three day period ending on 16 April 2011. Shown are snapshots of the surface pattern on the 14th (left-most set of fronts), 15th (center), and 16th (right) of April 2011, along with the official storm reports as logged by t...
“Generally, a Tornado Alley map starts in central Texas and goes north through Oklahoma, central Kansas and Nebraska and eastern South Dakota, sometimes dog-legging east through Iowa, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana to western Ohio.” But the traditional Tornado Alley may be changing alongside clim...
“From a public safety perspective, if this trend (of an earlier tornado season) is indeed occurring, then people need to begin preparing for severe weather earlier in the year,” said Greg Carbin, the warning coordination meteorologist at the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma, who wa...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. aTornado Watch is in effect for La Porte County, Indiana until 2 a.m. Thursday. ...
Every year some town or other is blownoff the map by tornadoes that can reach 300 miles an hour.Val and Amy are just two of hundreds of possibly thousands of trackers who speedaround with computers and cameras hoping to catch one of these beautiful, deadlystorms. I'd joined them to ...
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' We assembled a group of 16, including a colleague at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and an aerospace engineering professor at KU, and designed this study. The tornado was Tuesday evening, and we went out on Friday. We worked for around 12 hours and split into seven different ...
Map Discussion The Week Before The defining feature of the weather conditions on June 8, 1974, was an anomalously strong Pacific upper level jet that became established offshore in the preceding days. This strong jet eventually dropped south as a longwave trough developed in the western and centr...
The collection of data to form a nation-wide map of tornado tracks probably should be something for all of us to share the workload on, as I'm sure if we were all to dig we would find quite a bit more anecdotal evidence to point to tornado damage. So the point I'd like to ...