A tornado occurred in 4 May 1999 during the tornado outbreak near Oklahoma City was observed by the Doppler on Wheels located about 4 km from the tornado. Excellent Doppler radar data with high temporal and spatial resolutions were collected with maximum Doppler velocities exceeding 80 m/s....
Disaster Averted: Hypothetical Tornado Paths after the El Reno Tornado of 31 May 2013On 20 May 2013, a large and violent tornado ravaged the southern Oklahoma City suburb of Moore. Just 11 days later, another large and powerful tornado affected rural areas just west of the metropolis, near ...
A group of storm chasers made the trip to Oklahoma to get up close and personal with the tornadoes last month. These people are nuts! While most of us are trying to avoid these storms, they go charging headfirst directly into them. It's not done in vain though. We can all thank them...
Lakes, rivers, and streams don’t act as a deterrent to tornado activity. In fact, many of southern Ontario’s tornado threats materialize when severe thunderstorms roll off Lake Huron. Tornadoes routinely cross bodies of water along their paths. Part of this myth may stem ...
Lakes, rivers, and streams don’t act as a deterrent to tornado activity. In fact, many of southern Ontario’s tornado threats materialize when severe thunderstorms roll off Lake Huron. Tornadoes routinely cross bodies of water along their paths. ...
Tornadoes are devastating atmospheric events that affect the ecology and the lives of people in their paths. Tornadoes are defined as “a violently rotating column of air, in contact with the ground, either pendant from a cumuliform cloud or underneath a cumuliform cloud, and often (but not ...
Survey Summary: An NWS Storm Survey team concluded that the damage near Willisville, Arkansas was consistent with that of an EF-1 tornado. This tornado snapped and uprooted numerous trees along its path. Several outbuildings were destroyed and several homes had minor to moderate roof damage as ...
A tornado near Madison IN took an eerie and frightening demeanor when it crossed the Ohio River on Thursday.
and near the town of Prague. The most intense tornado occurred just west of Shawnee, where EF-4 damage was found as the tornado traveled north of the city before crossing U.S. Interstate Highway 40 (I-40). Two people were killed and fourteen injured as a result of the tornadoes on th...
A tornado near Madison IN took an eerie and frightening demeanor when it crossed the Ohio River on Thursday.