Spring 2023 seasonal tornado outlook The active start of the year could be a sign, but a mid-March pattern change could limit the upside potential. Mark Ellinwood Tornado Videos Top tornado videos of 2022 A near average year for tornadoes across the country, with a cool season bend....
With storms impacting areas from Texas and Oklahoma to central Florida in late April 2023, hail is once again in the news as we continue into the heart of severe weather season for most of the United States. Tornadoes and hurricanes may receive the...
The United States receives more than 1,200 tornadoes annually—four times the amount seen in Europe. Violent tornadoes—those rated EF4 or EF5 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale—occur more often in the United States than in any other country.Most tornadoes in the United States occur in "Tornado ...
If you look at the proportion of population likely to experience a tornado, you see a central belt running from north to south across the United States, often referred to as Tornado Alley. This pattern becomes more visible if you aggregate the tornadoes to the county level. Several areas, fo...
IN thefor last December there is a preliminary report on the frequency of tornadoes in the United States during 1931, on the number of deaths caused by them, and on the material damage. This report shows that in the past year tornadoes were notably scarce compared with other recent years, ...
The annual frequency of tornadoes during 1950–2018 across the major tornado-impacted states were examined and modeled using anthropogenic and large-scale climate covariates in a hierarchical Bayesian inference framework. Anthropogenic factors include in
Tornadoes have been on the increase across the United States over the last 50 years. This can be attributed to many factors in areas of meteorology and technology to eyewitness accounts. The National Weather Service community combined with local government and media has made an all out effort in...
Tornadoes can cause catastrophic destruction. Here total kinetic energy (TKE) as a metric of destruction is computed from the fraction of the tornado path experiencing various damage levels and a characteristic wind speed for each level. The fraction of the path is obtained from a model developed...
The tornadoes were part of a weather system that was wreaking havoc in many parts of the United States, causing substantial snowfall across parts of the upper Midwest and western Great Lakes. State officials were still assessing the extent of the damage. Power outage has affected at least 77,...
At the country level, both the severity of damage from individual events and the total annual losses from tornadoes are seen to have reduced over time. We also find spatial variations in time trends for the damage from tornadoes: while for most U.S. states the declining trend in severity ...