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VIDEO: Into the heart of a storm

Posted in Collaboration, News, People News, Research News on August 22, 2017 by Emily Jeffries.
RIVORS: Rivers of Vorticity in Supercells

For more information, visit noaa.gov.

Tags: Featured, NOAA, RiVoRs, tornado, Video

Significant Paper: Visualization of a simulated long-track EF5 tornado embedded within a supercell thunderstorm

Posted in Research News on June 22, 2016 by Tanya Schoor.

This paper reports elucidates three-dimensional features thought to play an important role in creating and maintaining the tornado vortex.

Tags: Hot Items, NSSL, Significant Paper, tornado

NOAA, University of Alabama-Huntsville and Partners Kick Off Tornado Study

Posted in Research News on February 29, 2016 by Tanya Schoor.

Tornadoes will be the target as researchers spend two months in northern Alabama collecting data during VORTEX-SE.

Tags: tornado, VORTEX-SE

VORTEX2: 2009-2010

Posted in Research News on February 8, 2016 by Tanya Schoor.

VORTEX2 was the largest tornado research project in history, logging more than 25,000 miles per vehicle in 2010!

Tags: research, tornado, vortex2

VORTEX: 1994-1995

Posted in Research News on February 2, 2016 by Tanya Schoor.

The VORTEX project in the mid-1990s revolutionized tornado research and forecasting.

Tags: research, tornado, VORTEX

Tornado Warning Decisions Using Phased Array Radar Data

Posted in Research News on November 6, 2014 by Susan Cobb.

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…

Tags: forecasters, Heinselman, MPAR, NWS, phased array radar, tornado, Warning Research News, Weather and Forecasting

NOAA study shows pattern of fewer days with tornadoes, but more tornadoes on those days

Posted in Research News on October 16, 2014 by Susan Cobb.

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…

Tags: Brooks, climate, climate change, Featured, Hot Items, more tornadoes, NSSL, pattern, tornado, variability, weather

The 40th anniversary of the Union City, OK tornadic storm

Posted in People News on May 24, 2013 by Susan Cobb.
Union City Tornado, May 24, 1973

May 24, 2013, is the 40th anniversary of the Union City, Okla., tornadic storm.

Tags: Issue: Spring 2013, may 24 1973, tornado, Union City OK

Radars capture valuable scans of May 2013 tornadoes

Posted in Radar, Research News on May 23, 2013 by Susan Cobb.

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.

Tags: EF5, Issue: Spring 2013, May 19, May 20, Moore, Shawnee, tornado

Scientists re-visit the Tri-State Tornado

Posted in Talks and Articles on May 16, 2013 by Susan Cobb.

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.

Tags: 1925, Issue: Spring 2013, NSSL, SPC, tornado, tri-state tornado

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