http://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite provides a look at thunderstorms in three dimensions and shows scientists the heights of the thunderclouds and the rainfall rates coming from them, both of which indicate severity. http://phys.org/news252862215.html Space & Earth Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:30:40 EST news252862215 A powerful weather system moved through eastern Texas and dropped at least 15 tornadoes in the Dallas suburbs. NASA created an animation of data from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite that shows the frontal system moving through the region yesterday. http://phys.org/news252777879.html Space & Earth Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:04:52 EST news252777879 (PhysOrg.com) -- Solar tornadoes several times as wide as the Earth can be generated in the solar atmosphere, say researchers in the UK. A solar tornado was discovered using the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly telescope on board the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) satellite. A movie of the tornado will be presented at the National Astronomy Meeting 2012 in Manchester on Thursday 29th March. http://phys.org/news252231597.html Space & Earth Thu, 29 Mar 2012 09:20:19 EST news252231597 (PhysOrg.com) -- A March 9 thunderstorm that struck the island of Oahu produced unusually large hailstones, one of which measured over four inches long, a record for the state which rarely sees hail at all. The hail was the result of a rare supercell thunderstorm forming which produced both hail and one small tornado, another rare event for Hawaii. http://phys.org/news252054712.html Space & Earth Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:12:40 EST news252054712 (AP) -- America's weather is stuck on extreme. http://phys.org/news251142376.html Space & Earth Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:46:32 EST news251142376 A satellite animation of NOAA's GOES-13 satellite imagery showed the movement of the front that triggered severe storms and tornadoes in several states on February 29, 2012. Today, NASA released a GOES satellite animation of that weather system that triggered at least 20 tornadoes. http://phys.org/news249843979.html Space & Earth Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:06:30 EST news249843979 When you read the following paragraph, consider the following: Tornado season hasn't even started yet. http://phys.org/news249822404.html Space & Earth Thu, 01 Mar 2012 11:06:56 EST news249822404 (AP) -- Tornado season is starting, but don't ask meteorologists how bad it will be this spring and summer. http://phys.org/news249234282.html Space & Earth Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:51:41 EST news249234282 (AP) -- With the month of March looming, tornado chasers are already watching the Southeast as a nasty storm brews with the potential to spin off a batch of tornadoes. http://phys.org/news249193504.html Space & Earth Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:25:49 EST news249193504 Meteorologists can see a busy hurricane season brewing months ahead, but until now there has been no such crystal ball for tornadoes, which are much smaller and more volatile. This information gap took on new urgency after tornadoes in 2011 killed more than 550 people, more than in the previous 10 years combined, including a devastating outbreak in April that racked up $5 billion in insured losses. Now, a new study of short-term climate trends offers the first framework for predicting tornado activity up to a month out with current technology, and possibly further out as climate models improve, giving communities a chance to plan. The study may also eventually open a window on the question of whether tornadoes are growing more frequent due to long-term climate warming. http://phys.org/news246200872.html Space & Earth Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:08:02 EST news246200872 (PhysOrg.com) -- For much of the last century, people in parts of the United States have come to notice that just as they got the weekends off to relax, so too did it seem, did serious weather. Big booming thunderstorms that produced large hail and/or tornados, seemed to strike at will during the week, but come the weekend, things grew quiet. While there have been many theories as to why this might be, mostly religion based, it hasn’t been until much more recently that researchers have begun to take a closer look. http://phys.org/news243765199.html Space & Earth Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:20:01 EST news243765199 A comprehensive real estate report on the short-term impact and an analysis of the April 27 tornado that ravaged the Tuscaloosa area is now available from the Alabama Center for Real Estate at The University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Commerce. http://phys.org/news234086936.html Other Sciences Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:09:17 EST news234086936 (AP) -- The U.S. set a record for the most tornadoes within a month with April's deadly storms. http://phys.org/news231594950.html Space & Earth Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:20:08 EST news231594950 In the wake of the horrendous tornadoes that delivered massive destruction to the state in April, University of Alabama engineers have analyzed building structures and design codes to recommend an approach to safer and stronger buildings going forward. http://phys.org/news231497456.html Space & Earth Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:57:42 EST news231497456 The Mobile Meteorological Measurement Vehicle - a worn-looking '90s-model Dodge Intrepid with classic rock on the radio, a tower of weather gauges attached to its roof and a laptop computer bolted to its dash - crested a rolling hill on its way to tiny Hackleburg, Ala. http://phys.org/news230820232.html Space & Earth Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:30:03 EST news230820232 It was one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history. Now scientists are organizing a research program to better understand the tornadoes that blew through Alabama and other southeastern states on April 27, 2011. http://phys.org/news229686504.html Space & Earth Tue, 12 Jul 2011 10:48:36 EST news229686504 Each year, tornadoes tear across the United States, causing numerous deaths and physical damage to the environment and infrastructure. http://phys.org/news228665773.html Space & Earth Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:16:30 EST news228665773 Satellites provide a lot of useful information and the Landsat 5 satellite captured an image of the long damage track created on June 1, 2011 when a tornado tracked from Springfield to Sturbridge, Mass. An earlier image is now available from 2010 that enables people to more clearly see the damage path the June 2011 twister created on its eastward track. http://phys.org/news226983139.html Space & Earth Sat, 11 Jun 2011 03:52:39 EST news226983139 Ernest Fawbush and Robert Miller made the first ever tornado forecast in March of 1948 using only paper, pencil, and a World War II-era radar -- but tornado forecasting has changed dramatically since that initial forecast 63 years ago. http://phys.org/news226769565.html Space & Earth Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:33:15 EST news226769565 (PhysOrg.com) -- A Kansas State University climate expert attributes the increase in the number and severity of tornadoes and severe storms in 2011 to a change in weather patterns. http://phys.org/news226144702.html Space & Earth Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:58:37 EST news226144702 The recent series of tornados and floods in America has severely damaged many communities, from the Midwest to the South, and left them with enormous rebuilding tasks. Amy Glasmeier, head of MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, is a leading expert on regional and local economies in the United States, and on regional economic planning. MIT News spoke to her about the reconstruction challenges that lie ahead. http://phys.org/news226124002.html Other Sciences Wed, 01 Jun 2011 05:15:15 EST news226124002 This image shows the radar reflectivity from the National Weather Service Doppler Radar in Birmingham, Ala. at 5:10 p.m. CDT on April 27, 2011, as a supercell thunderstorm moved across the city. The radar reflectivity is overlaid upon Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or ASTER, satellite data acquired on May 4, 2011, showing the damage track resulting from for the EF-4 tornado associated with the storm as it passed through the city and continued northeast toward Birmingham, Ala. http://phys.org/news225965671.html Space & Earth Mon, 30 May 2011 09:30:01 EST news225965671 The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite called GOES-13 provides forecasters with continuous visible and infrared imagery of weather systems across the U.S. and a new movie from the NASA GOES project gives a close up of the storm the created the monster tornado that devastated Joplin, Missouri. http://phys.org/news225539659.html Space & Earth Wed, 25 May 2011 10:54:45 EST news225539659 (PhysOrg.com) -- On Sunday May 22, 2011, the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite captured an image of the rainfall rate in the supercell thunderstorm that generated the deadly twister that struck Joplin, Missouri. http://phys.org/news225536003.html Space & Earth Wed, 25 May 2011 09:53:42 EST news225536003 (AP) -- Weather experts said it's unusual for deadly tornadoes to develop a few weeks apart in the U.S. But what made the two storm systems that barreled through a Missouri city and the South within the last month so rare is that tornadoes took direct aim at populated areas. http://phys.org/news225456734.html Space & Earth Tue, 24 May 2011 11:53:08 EST news225456734 The United States is experiencing the deadliest year for tornadoes in nearly six decades, but a top US weather expert said Monday there is no link between the violent twisters and climate change. http://phys.org/news225386085.html Space & Earth Mon, 23 May 2011 16:15:00 EST news225386085 There is no practical, economic way to build structures that could stand up to the savagery of EF5 tornadoes like those that ripped through the South in late April, experts say, but damage from lesser storms could be reduced by better building practices and better enforcement of existing codes. http://phys.org/news224496482.html Technology Fri, 13 May 2011 09:08:25 EST news224496482 Scientists combing through the destruction left behind by the massive twister that swept through Tuscaloosa, Ala., last month say beefing up building codes and retrofitting existing homes with building techniques honed in hurricane-battered Florida could save property and lives in tornado-prone areas throughout the country. http://phys.org/news224484727.html Technology Fri, 13 May 2011 05:53:40 EST news224484727 (AP) -- April was a historic month for wild weather in the United States, and it wasn't just the killer tornado outbreak that set records, according to scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. http://phys.org/news224217558.html Space & Earth Tue, 10 May 2011 03:40:00 EST news224217558 Recent images of the April 27 storm damage path have been captured by NASA's Terra satellite, part of NASA's Earth Observing Satellite system, or EOS. An instrument aboard Terra, called Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer or ASTER, captured the images show the scars from the outbreak. http://phys.org/news224153893.html Space & Earth Mon, 09 May 2011 09:58:47 EST news224153893