The Severe Weather Extended-Range forecasting and Verification Experiment (SWERVE) is testing our ability to forecast severe weather up to three weeks in advance.
SWERVE: Predicting severe weather weeks in advance
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Tornado Tales: Real Stories, Real Impact
When severe weather threatens, accurate forecasts are only part of the equation. How people respond to tornado forecasts and warnings is ultimately what makes the difference between safety and disaster. That’s why researchers at NOAA’s…
Revolutionizing Hail Forecasts — One Falling Stone at a Time
New high-speed camera captures hail in free fall to improve public safety
VORTEX USA Tornado Project Paper Chosen as Highlight by AMS
A new paper on the PERiLS (Propagation, Evolution, and Rotation in Linear Storms) project was selected by the American Meteorological Society and the editors of Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) to be featured…
Using lightning to monitor the extreme impacts of landfalling hurricanes
A new paper on data collection during Hurricane Ian discusses the deployment of and data collected by a suite of instruments during the landfall of the Category 5 hurricane in Florida in 2022.
The Tornado That Didn’t Surprise: A Story of Preparedness and Partnership
The Warn-on-Forecast System, a revolutionary new forecasting tool being developed by NOAA’s National Severe Storms Laboratory, seeks to equip forecasters with critical information between watches and warnings to allow them to offer longer lead times…
NSSL and CIWRO Pushing the Frontier of Thunderstorm-Scale AI Weather Prediction
A new paper from NSSL and CIWRO discusses a new artificial intelligence model, WoFSCast, that can accurately predict how storms will evolve up to two hours in advance.
Experimental Phased Array Radar captures wildfire data
For more than 60 years, the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) has been at the forefront of developing weather radar. Currently NSSL is working on Phased Array Radar (PAR) as the next generation of…
NSSL using tornado tools to study post-wildfire flash floods and debris flows
You likely know the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) for its tornado research or radar developments, and its support of the National Weather Service (NWS) mission. However, you may not know the lab has…
Where Have All the EF5 Tornadoes Gone?
The way violent tornadoes in the United States are rated has changed over time, resulting in no EF5-rated tornadoes since 2013, according to researchers from the NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory in a paper published…