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Spring 2024 was menacing for large parts of the US, with a tornado nearly every day in May. Tornado outbreaks tore up communities across multiple states.
A powerful storm system produced dozens of destructive tornadoes over three days that tore apart homes in Oklahoma, Nebraska and Iowa. A meteorologist explains the conditions that fueled them.
Census data and research show all things are not equal in disaster displacement, as 2 experts in disaster recovery explain.
Britain doesn’t have huge violent twisters like the US. But it does have lots of little tornadoes.
Researchers are turning to computer models, drones and other methods to improve tornado forecasting.
Are severe and extreme weather events on the rise? And does this have anything to do with manmade climate change? The simple answer is: it’s complicated.
Engineers, architects and builders can design and construct affordable new buildings that can resist tornadoes, floods and wildfires, but do not. We have that opportunity now.
You can’t photograph the inside of a twister, but radar offers some clues.
Studies show tornadoes are getting more common and more intense, and they’re shifting eastward to a new tornado hot spot.
A hurricane that wreaked havoc from Louisiana to New York City, the Texas freeze and devastating western wildfires topped NOAA’s list of billion-dollar disasters in 2021.
Forecasters described it as a ‘historical weather day.’ An atmospheric scientist who was at the heart of the storms explains what happened.
The deaths of six Amazon employees at a factory hit by a tornado raises concerns over prohibitions on cellphones for workers.
Climate models can’t see tornadoes, but they can recognize the conditions for tornadoes to form. An atmospheric scientist explains what that means for forecasting future risks.
Tornadoes in December aren’t unusual in the Gulf Coast and lower Mississippi Valley states, but the Dec. 10-11 outbreak was extreme and far-reaching.
Australia has expansive areas of flat land — usually agricultural land — and it’s over these large, flat areas that tornadoes like to form.
Current building codes do not include the most efficient way to keep houses standing and intact during tornadoes.
Federal weather scientists are pushing to make the US more ‘weather-ready,’ which could mean prepping for fires, flooding or storms depending on where you live. The common factor: thinking ahead.
While land tornadoes are associated with huge supercell thunderstorms, waterspouts can form during smaller storms or even just showers or the presence of the right kind of clouds.
Misunderstanding disaster warnings can have catastrophic consequences for people who don’t speak the language used for emergency communications.
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Distinguished Professor of Meteorology, Penn State
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Professor of Meteorology, Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Penn State
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Assistant Professor of Geography, Middle Tennessee State University
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Associate Professor of Geography, University of Tennessee
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Professor of Urban Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago
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Director, Global Waste Research Institute, California Polytechnic State University
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Professor of Atmospheric Science, Iowa State University
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Professor of Civil Engineering & ImpactWX Chair of Severe Storms Engineering, Western University
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Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science and Colorado State Climatologist, Colorado State University
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Assistant Professor of Nursing, University of Michigan
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Huffington Foundation Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University
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Associate Professor of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, The Ohio State University
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Associate Professor of Meteorology, Central Michigan University
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Assistant Professor, Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering, Florida State University
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Furman Public Policy Scholar, New York University
