Tornadoes
Conference Spotlight
Be There: Estimating Wind Speeds of Tornadoes and Other Windstorms
By James LaDue, NOAA/NWS Warning Decision Training Division (symposium co-chair) Did you know that the AMS is co-branding a standard...
Southeasterners Perceive Tornado Risk Dangerously Different Than They Should, Especially at Night
While a major winter storm last month was plastering the United States from Texas and New Mexico to New England...
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“Sleep with your phone on!”: Messaging for Nighttime Tornadoes
With Hurricane Delta poised to strike Louisiana today, the risk of embedded tornadoes will increase as rainbands spiral ashore, along...
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"Sleep with your phone on!": Messaging for Nighttime Tornadoes
With Hurricane Delta poised to strike Louisiana today, the risk of embedded tornadoes will increase as rainbands spiral ashore, along...
Website Tracks Public Understanding of Tornadoes
Imagine you live in a part of the country where few people have experienced tornadoes. It would make sense that...
10-m Resolution Quarter-Trillion Gridpoint Tornadic Supercell Simulation Mesmerizes
An exceptionally high resolution simulation of a supercell thunderstorm fascinated conferees Tuesday at the AMS 100th Annual Meeting in Boston....
Tornado Researchers Gather to Improve Wind Speed Estimation
The Wind Speed Estimation (WSE) standards committee–jointly supported by AMS and the American Society of Civil Engineers–is holding its 9th...
Making Sure No Tornado Damage Is Too Small
Planetary, synoptic, meso-alpha, meso-beta, local, and more—there are atmospheric scales aplenty discussed at AMS meetings. Enter microtopography, a once-rare word increasingly...
A Tale of Two Studies: Varied Perspectives at the AMS Meeting
by Maggie Christopher, Valparaiso University On Sunday students presented nearly 200 posters of their research in grad school and summer...
New Standard Aims to Improve Tornado, Severe Wind Estimates
By Jim LaDue, NWS Warning Decision Training Branch For more than four decades, the go-to for rating tornadoes has been...
