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What creates a tornado? (Lansing State Journal, August 13, 1997) Recently, several tornado warnings and one tornado have hit our area. What is the recipe for a tornado? The ingredients are: a big thunderstorm; winds blowing from opposite directions; and a strong updraft. Strong updrafts surge up through storm clouds causing the cloud tops to bubble up and subside. A tornado can form when the air in these updrafts begins to rotate as opposing winds cause the storm to start spinning. Th ...

A Practical Guide to hurricane tracking and plotting | home | tools | pleas for help | QHWRN | guide | climatology | archive | Welcome to the practical guide to hurricane plotting and tracking, filled with tid-bits and other miscellaneous information. Here you may find the answer to a lot of your trivial (but oh so frustrating when you can't find the answer) questions. Somewhere else on our website we have information available on the current situation in the Caribbean. Our speci ...

MISSION OF CAPS The mission of CAPS is to develop and demonstrate techniques for the practical numerical prediction of high-impact local weather, particularly thunderstorms, with emphasis on the assimilation of high-resolution observations from Doppler weather radars. CAPS conducts a broad-based program of basic and applied storm-scale research, and its award-winning Advanced Regional Prediction System (ARPS) is used worldwide. Improved Storm Forec ...

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BREAKING NEWS Mount Merapi Officials evacuate 11,000 as lava flows and hot gas rush down the upper slopes of the Java volcano. The Guardian Manila Quake Overdue Philippine government warns a quake up to magnitude 7.2 could strike at any time. Manila Standard Java Quake Aftermath U.N. officials warn that the quake that killed nearly 5,900 people on May 27 also wrecked the island's agriculture. AFP - Yahoo Back from Extinction Two frogs feared extinct have been rediscoverd in Colombia ...

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Floods are the most common and widespread of all weather-related natural disasters. Most communities in the United States have experienced flooding after spring rains, heavy thunderstorms, or winter snow thaws. Floods have enough power to change the course of rivers and bury houses in mud. And flash floods are the most dangerous kind of floods, because they combine the destructive power of a flood with incredible speed and unpredictability. Learn more about the force of flash floods when y ...

Weather forecasting is a prediction of what the weather will be like in an hour, tomorrow, or next week. The people who study the weather and make forecasts are called meteorologists. Meteorologists use special, high-tech equipment to help them make their forecasts. But you can make forecasts by watching clouds or feeling the blowing wind. To learn how, read through the Forecasting lesson, and get ready to go camping. The Camping Trip Or skip ahead and remember the lessons on weath ...

RADAR - o l o g y Meteorology today relies on RADAR as an important tool for analyzing and forecasting weather events. Since the development of RADAR systems, weather has become less mysterious. Oral and early written history tell of legends associated with weather. Angry gods were to blame for sudden violent weather events. Today, RADAR allows us to foresee violent weather. Imagine how powerful a RADAR-equipped meteorologist would have been in ancient times. Early meteorologists were thought to be magicians, at least when their forecast came true. To understand just how useful RADAR is for meteorologists, explore RADAR History, RADAR Science, and RADAR Detection. More about RADAR (929k)

HAIL STORMS all images and text © copyright Gene Moore HAILSTONES- A look at size and shape HAIL FALL - In the wake of the storm HAIL STORMS - Do they look different? PUNCHING The core - How bad can it get? Return to ChaseDay index page

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Hurricane & Storm Tracking for the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans The StormTrack system receives weather data from the US National Weather Service via satellite. The system creates an entry for each tropical depression, storm, or hurricane when the National Weather Service begins issuing advisories. Storm Archive: Java™ Animated Plots and ASCII Data files, 1886 - 2004 The 2006 Hurricane Season Images, Maps, and Other Sites Additional Hurricane Information StormCarib Updates from the Carib ...

The Hurricane Hunters Hurricane Katrina dealt a terrible blow to our community. Most of our 403rd Wing members live along the Gulf Coast; many lost their homes, and far too many friends. The storm season started with such a bang, with an unprecedented string of seven named storms by the end of July. After major Hurricane Dennis forced us to temporarily evacuate our aircraft from Keesler, it was hard to imagine just how bad things were about to get. Three days later, we began our week of fligh ...

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Hurricanes Picture of Hurricane Andrew taken August 25, 1992, from GOES-7 Click on image for full size (190K GIF) Image courtesy of NASA Hurricanes are violent storms which begin in the tropics. Different parts of the world call hurricanes by different names. Hurricanes form over the ocean and die down when they move over land. Scientists try to forecast where and when the center of the storm, the eye, will reach land in order to warn people about the damage caused by the strong ...

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. Graphic by: Dan Bramer Fly through a 3-D Hurricane! added (1/08/1999) Requires a VRML player/plugin. See bottom of page for a recommended one. Interact with Atlantic hurricanes from 1950-2003!! Hurricanes are cyclones that develop over the warm tropical oceans and have sustained winds in excess of 64 knots (74 miles/hour). These storms are capable of producing dangerous winds, torrential rains and flooding, all of which may result in tremendous property damage and los ...

Atlantic Hurricane Track Maps & Images by Steven Babin and Ray Sterner This page is strictly for educational use only. For the latest information, listen to NOAA weather radio or your local media. 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season Track Maps & Satellite Images 2004 Atlantic Hurricane Season Track Maps & Satellite Images 2003 Atlantic Hurricane Season Track Maps & Satellite Images 2002 Atlantic Hurricane Season Track Maps & Satellite Images 2001 Atlantic Hurricane Season Tr ...

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TESSA The Texas Severe Storms Association Veteran chasers gather for a tribute to David Hoadley (front center) following the TESSA 2006 Texas Storm Conference on March 11. David, the first-ever storm chaser, celebrates his 50th year of storm chasing in 2006. Total number of tornadoes witnessed by this group: 863. Photo by Sam Barricklow. 2006 Texas Storm Conference a big success! Over 400 attended this year's conference on March 11 in ...

The Numerical Simulation of Non-Supercell Tornadogenesis Bruce D. Lee and Robert B. Wilhelmson Department of Atmospheric Sciences and National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) University of lllinois at Urbana - Champaign The term `non-supercell tornado' is applied to a class of tornadoes which occur with deep moist convection that does not display the strong pre-tornadic mid-level rotation found in supercell thunderstorms. In recent years the severe storm community has acknowled ...

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Return to the INE Main Page Tornadoes and Ball Lightning Edward Lewis P. O. Box 13050 Chicago, Illinois 60613 September 7, 1995; Revised July 22, 1996 and August 20, 1996 [Received via email to INE, June 1996. Revised Oct. 1996.] [Reposted Nov. 15, 1996.] Tornadoes and Ball Lightning Copyright 1995, 1996 by Edward Lewis Abstract Tornadoes and ball lightning are identified, and described as plasmoid phenomena. Certain anomalous characteristics of tornadoes and ball l ...

In this section of our site, we focus on killer tornadoes that have taken place in the US since 1995. If you want a listing of all tornadoes that have occurred in the US, take a quick trip to our "All Tornadoes" page. If you want to use frames, you will get more reliable results by using the navigation panel on the left. Frames Home No-frames Home Recent tornadoes Tornadoes in the past Tornado Top Tens The Fujita Scale Videos, Books an ...

Welcome! to the Tornadoes of Wisconsin Stormchasing Links and information related to stormchasing. Tornadoes of Wisconsin A photo and essay archive of some of the most interesting tornadoes in Wisconsin history. Photo Gallery Our favorite stormchasing photographs, including photos of the F5 tornado in Oakfield, WI and many other tornadoes from Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska. Professional buyers check out our stock photo index. Visitors to Date: Billions and billions (like anyone cares) Mail us with your comments, suggestions, or ridicule.

What are Hurricanes? Most people associate twisters with tornadoes, but in fact tropical twisters come from hurricanes. Hurricanes are what scientists call "strong Tropical Cyclones". They are formed when large areas of the ocean become heated, and the air pressure over that area drops. This causes thunderstorms and strong surface winds. Cyclones develop over tropical or sub-tropical waters (for example, in the Atlantic off the coast of Africa, or in the Pacific). As they travel long distanc ...

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SearchHow do I find it?Most popular on site | Subscribe to paper Home News Travel Money Sports Life Tech Weather Weather Shopping Buy a Car Job Search Online Dating Real Estate Find a forecast: Researching tornado history For answers to questions such as what is the largest tornado, the longest, the one that killed the most people, and where tornadoes occur, first try: USATODAY.com FAQ on tornado history and geography Answers to ...

.Virginia Hurricane History. David Roth Hugh Cobb Hydrometeorological Prediction Center National Weather Service Forecast Office Camp Springs, MD Wakefield, VA The following links will guide you through this hurricane history Preface1851-1900 1501-16001901-1950 1601-17001951-1999 1701-1800Climatology of tropical cyclones in Virginia 1801-1850Bibliography Featured ...

VORTEX95: How Tall is a Tornado? A cross-section through a tornado-producing supercell storm is shown in this image from the NCAR ELDORA flying radar. The image is from the "tail aft" radar system (one component of the two-radar ELDORA system), with the aircraft at a range of approximately 25 km from the center of the storm. Shown in the above image is radar reflectivity through a section of the supercell. Reflectivity values are relatively low near the aircraft (around -15 dBZ; blue ...

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Skip Navigation What Are Hurricanes? Hurricanes are large tropical storms with heavy winds. By definition, they contain winds in excess of 74 miles per hour (119 km per hour) and large areas of rainfall. In addition, they have the potential to spawn dangerous tornadoes. The strong winds and excessive rainfall also produce abnormal rises in sea levels and flooding. Christopher Columbus was the first European in modern times to write about the hurricane. The Indians of Guatemal ...

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