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Significant Paper: Visualization of a simulated long-track EF5 tornado embedded within a supercell thunderstorm
This paper reports elucidates three-dimensional features thought to play an important role in creating and maintaining the tornado vortex.
NOAA, University of Alabama-Huntsville and Partners Kick Off Tornado Study
Tornadoes will be the target as researchers spend two months in northern Alabama collecting data during VORTEX-SE.
VORTEX2: 2009-2010
VORTEX2 was the largest tornado research project in history, logging more than 25,000 miles per vehicle in 2010!
VORTEX: 1994-1995
The VORTEX project in the mid-1990s revolutionized tornado research and forecasting.
Tornado Warning Decisions Using Phased Array Radar Data
Weather and Forecasting: Early Online Release Tornado Warning Decisions Using Phased Array Radar Data Authors: Pamela Heinselman, Daphne LaDue, Darrel M. Kingfield, and Robert Hoffman The 2012 Phased Array Radar Innovative Sensing Experiment identified how…
NOAA study shows pattern of fewer days with tornadoes, but more tornadoes on those days
Are tornadoes increasing? Not really, the number has remained relatively constant. What is changing is that there are fewer days with tornadoes each year, but on those days there are more tornadoes, according to a…
The 40th anniversary of the Union City, OK tornadic storm
May 24, 2013, is the 40th anniversary of the Union City, Okla., tornadic storm.
Radars capture valuable scans of May 2013 tornadoes
On both May 19 and May 20, 2013, NSSL researchers collected data on storms that produced tornadoes using both the NWRT Phased Array Radar (PAR), and the mobile dual-polarized radar.
Scientists re-visit the Tri-State Tornado
Scientists have re-examined the March 18, 1925 Tri-State Tornado was unusually severe, killing 695 people while it was on the ground for a record 219 miles crossing parts of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.