Latest Tornado Stories
In the midst of tornado season, Amica Insurance is sharing common myths about the dangerous storms. LINCOLN, RI (PRWEB) April 19, 2013 According to the National Weather Service, tornadoes are most prevalent from March through June – especially in the Southeast – and they cause an average of 60-65 fatalities and 1,500 injuries per year. With wind speeds occasionally reaching more than 200 mph, tornadoes can span more than a mile and stay on the ground for more than 50 miles. But other...
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Texas A&M University's student storm chasing team looks for the kind of weather that sent Dorothy and Toto over the rainbow - and the nastier the better. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120502/DC99584LOGO) Believed to be the only student-run storm chasing team in Texas, the Texas Aggie Storm Chasers, or TASC for short, knows that when it's springtime in Texas, Mother Nature can put on quite a show and...
New super strong windows withstand impact of 2x4s hurled by EF5 winds. Joplin, MO (PRWEB) April 15, 2013 Like a chain and its weakest link, the strength of a hospital’s outer shell depends on its most fragile pieces – the windows. That’s a crucial lesson from the May 2011 tornado that ravaged the old St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Joplin. And it’s knowledge Mercy is using to better protect its new Joplin hospital and facilities across four states in tornado alley....
Part 5 of redOrbit’s exclusive 6-part series Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The last part of this exclusive series focused on the technologies behind the Earth Networks Total Lightning Network (ENTLN) and their computer and mobile-based platforms for delivery of weather information to the general public. For part 5, I sat down with the company’s senior meteorologist James West to discuss the important role played by humans in weather prediction for their...
WASHINGTON, April 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Red Cross is responding across the South and Midwest after a severe weather outbreak that spawned tornadoes yesterday. The series of tornadoes destroyed homes and businesses and left thousands without power in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090108/RedCrossLOGO) "Red Cross disaster workers are providing shelter, meals and relief supplies today...
Part 2 of redOrbit’s exclusive 6-part series Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online In the first installment of this series, we explored how the Maryland-based company Earth Networks positioned itself as the world leader in ground-based weather sensor data collection through the mass deployment of their weather station sensor network. Typically, private sector weather companies like The Weather Channel or Accuweather rely on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Part 1 of redOrbit’s exclusive 6-part series. Last month, an article published on redOrbit profiled the NASA/NOAA GOES-R satellite. Slated for a 2015 launch, this amazing piece of geostationary technology is being touted for its potential to better predict severe weather conditions in the Western Hemisphere, and there can be no denying its importance to the advancement of meteorological science. A component of the GOES-R...
Nix Storm Shelters produces a very affordable tornado storm shelter that can withstand the high winds of a tornado. Nix Storm Shelters can be a matter of life or death. Poseyville, Indiana (PRWEB) March 31, 2013 Carl A. Nix Welding, Inc. is proud to announce their line of storm shelters. This family owned and operated company began in the late 1800’s when Charles Nix settled in Poseyville, Indiana after making the journey from Germany. Charles operated a blacksmith shop shoeing horses...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- WeatherSphere's top weather app - NOAA Hi-Def Radar, the number 1 paid weather app in apple's App Store for 2012, adds lightning strikes in near real-time. This makes it the only app of its kind that can show rain in real-time, along with snowfall, lightning strikes, tornadoes, hurricane forecast tracks, severe weather warning areas, storm direction arrows, national drought severity, and wildfire locations on the same map. (Photo:...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- As we watch Winter Storm Saturn move across the country, it seems that spring must still be far away. However, its official start is only a couple of weeks away. The season is known for its thunderstorms, lightning, high winds, tornadoes, hail, and flooding--which can all bring the wrath of Mother Nature to the doorstep in short order. That is why Safe Electricity urges you to make sure you are ready now--before severe weather strikes...
Latest Tornado Reference Libraries
Air mass thunderstorms are found in marine time tropical air. In short they are also known as MT Thunderstorms. Air mass thunderstorms represent what is known as the common three stage thunderstorm development. This means that an air mass thunderstorm goes through the stages of Cumulus which is represented by the updrafts only being present; secondly it moves into the mature stage where it has both updrafts and downdrafts; finally it goes into the dissipating stage where you see only the...
In this lesson we are going to take a look at super-cell thunderstorms and what they mean and how they impact our daily lives. First, a super-cell thunderstorm is formed from a cumulus-nimbus cloud. Super-cell thunderstorms are the most advanced form of thunderstorms known on earth. This is because these types of thunderstorms need so many things to come together in the atmosphere at the same time. The first thing they need is the warm moist air at or near the surface. Secondly, is...
Say it’s not so, but we could be very well on the verge of entering into an EL-Nino cycle soon. How soon? The latest forecast issued by the Climate Prediction Center has upped the chances of seeing EL-Nino this year now at 61% with the favorable time period pointing towards the 3rd quarter (July-September). What does this mean to you? Well it all depends on where you’re living as EL-Nino has a wide array of impacts that are different everywhere around the globe. Here are a few...
This past weekend we saw a massive line of storms impact large areas of the country from Iowa to Maryland in what is known as a Derecho. What is a Derecho? The best way to define this weather feature is by describing a large mass of t-storms combining together to form an elongated region of storms which can create intense surface winds that can blow in excess of 60mph reaching well into the 100 plus mph range. These winds are also known as straight line winds. What happens is, as these...
The above cloud is known as a towering cumulus cloud or TCU for short. TCU clouds are a form of cumulus clouds. They are the second stage of the cumulus family. The thing that makes these clouds unique is the vertical extent of them. They can extend very high into the atmosphere and sometimes they form in multiple rows. Towering Cumulus clouds can bring waterspouts when they are over the open waters and they are responsible for heavy rain. TCU Clouds have two types of air within them. They...
