News tagged with severe
Creating action-inspiring tornado warnings
One year ago this week, 158 people died when a tornado with winds greater than 200 mph struck Joplin, Mo. Even though the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued tornado warnings and activated ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 22, 2012 |
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NASA satellite movie shows Great Plains tornado outbreak from space
Satellite data gives forecasters a leg up on severe weather. NASA has just released an animation of visible and infrared satellite data showing the development and movement of the Great Plains tornado outbreak, ...
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Apr 17, 2012 |
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NASA's TRMM Satellite sees tornadic Texas storms in 3-D
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, ...
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Apr 05, 2012 |
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GOES satellite movie tracked tornadic Texas trouble
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 ...
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Apr 04, 2012 |
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Mumbai, Miami on list for big weather disasters
(AP) -- Global warming is leading to such severe storms, droughts and heat waves that nations should prepare for an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disasters, an international panel of ...
Mar 28, 2012 |
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US sets new carbon standard for power plants
The United States said Tuesday it was setting the first national standards on carbon emissions from power plants, taking aim at the burning of coal which is considered a top culprit in climate change.
Mar 27, 2012 |
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NASA sees more severe weather over eastern Texas, Oklahoma
A low pressure area is centered over eastern Oklahoma, and its associated cold front drapes south into eastern Texas. The front is stalled over eastern Texas and eastern Oklahoma and is generating severe weather ...
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Mar 20, 2012 |
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Infrared NASA satellite data indicates severe weather for south central US this week
Infrared and microwave satellite imagery from NASA have been providing forecasters at the National Weather Service valuable data on weather system that has potential to bring severe weather to the south central ...
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Mar 19, 2012 |
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NASA studies March 3 severe weather outbreak with infrared, microwave vision
A NASA satellite used infrared and microwave "vision" to analyze the storm system that created the March 3 severe weather outbreak in the U.S.
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Mar 08, 2012 |
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Another severe weather system seen on satellite movie from NASA
Another powerful weather system is moving through the central and eastern U.S., generating more severe weather. NASA created an animation of data from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite that shows the frontal system ...
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Mar 02, 2012 |
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NASA satellite movie shows movement of tornadic weather system
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 ...
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Mar 01, 2012 |
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Space Weather Center to add world's first 'ensemble forecasting' capability
Improved Forecasting to Coincide with Peak in Solar Activity
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 28, 2012 |
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GOES-13 satellite sees 'giant white spike' of clouds bringing U.S. severe weather
(PhysOrg.com) -- Severe weather is expected to impact the southeastern U.S. today, and the GOES-13 satellite captured an image of a line of clouds associated with the strong cold front that looks like a giant ...
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Jan 27, 2012 |
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Billion-dollar weather disasters smash US record
(AP) -- America's wild weather year has set another record: a dozen billion-dollar catastrophes.
Dec 07, 2011 |
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Global winds could explain record rains, tornadoes
Two talks at a scientific conference this week will propose a common root for an enormous deluge in western Tennessee in May 2010, and a historic outbreak of tornadoes centered on Alabama in April 2011.
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Dec 05, 2011 |
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