The NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory is proud to announce the American Meteorological Society has named Dr. Pam Heinselman a Fellow, recognizing her outstanding contributions to the atmospheric sciences during a substantial period of years.…
LIFT (Low-Level Internal Flows in Tornadoes) seeks to better understand winds in the lowest levels of tornadoes. To do so, scientists will have to get up close and personal.
SCIENCE IMPACT: NSSL’s Warn-on-Forecast System yields 75 lead time on Greenfield, Iowa tornado, demonstrating potential for long-range tornado warnings.
NSSL’s Low-Level Internal Flows in Tornadoes experiment, or “LIFT”, intercepted a violent tornado southeast of Duke, Okla., gathering a data set that could prove to be significant in our understanding of tornado winds at the ground level.
The Warn-on-Forecast System is a revolutionary approach to forecasting severe weather and tornadoes that could lead to a historic leap in warning lead times.