Tornadoes
Reassessing the Enhanced Fujita Tornado Scale
It’s been more than 40 years since Ted Fujita introduced his renowned Tornado Damage Scale – the Fujita Scale. And...
The Moore Tornado from Above
The July issue of BAMS includes a feature on the new and improved imaging capabilities of the Visible Infrared Imaging...
Across AMS
Twister that Killed 4 Storm Chasers Widest Ever
The tornado that killed 18 people in and around El Reno, Oklahoma on Friday, including three professional tornado researchers and...
Hard Luck, Hard Lessons in Moore
While we hope, pray, and provide for survivors of Monday’s tragedy in Moore, Oklahoma, it is impossible to ignore the...
Cool Weather Contributing to Historically Low Tornado Count
The lack of tornadoes in the United States from May of 2012 to April of this year has been “remarkable,”...
Investigating Tornado Fatalities
Men, particularly the elderly, die at a disproportionately higher rate than other population groups. It’s a well-known fact to those...
New Warnings, New Words
National Weather Service offices in Missouri and Kansas recently initiated an experiment testing new tornado warnings that combine more specific...
After the Disasters, How to Be a Holiday-Ready Nation
Weather took hundreds of lives in a record 12 billion-dollar disasters in the United States in 2011. Internationally, the disaster...
Emergency Response Technology Goes On Demand
When the American Red Cross responded the morning after the 24 May tornado outbreak in central Oklahoma, they had a...
Perspectives
Oklahoma Mesonet Station Stands Tall in EF-4 Tornado
by Chris Fiebrich, Oklahoma Climatological Survey It was bound to happen eventually. The Oklahoma Mesonet has 120 weather stations across...
