Next-gen weather satellites to improve tornado warnings
When you read the following paragraph, consider the following: Tornado season hasn't even started yet.
Earth Sciences
Mar 1, 2012
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News tagged with tornadoes
Scientists make progress in assessing tornado seasons
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 ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 19, 2012
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Alabama tornado team scours paths of killer storms
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 ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 25, 2011
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No link between tornadoes and climate change: US
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.
Earth Sciences
May 23, 2011
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NASA satellite observes damage path of april tornadoes
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 ...
Earth Sciences
May 9, 2011
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Satellites reveal tornado tracks in Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama
(PhysOrg.com) -- Tornado tracks from last week's powerful tornado outbreak are visible in data from NASA's Aqua satellite and the Landsat satellite.
Earth Sciences
May 3, 2011
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NASA satellite sees tornado tracks in Tuscaloosa, Alabama (w/ video)
Deadly tornadoes raked across Alabama on April 27, 2011, killing as many as 210 people as of April 29. The hardest-hit community was Tuscaloosa. In an image acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) ...
Earth Sciences
May 2, 2011
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Killer twisters likely among largest, strongest
Some of the killer tornadoes that ripped across the South may have been among the largest and most powerful ever recorded, experts suggested, leaving a death toll that is approaching that of a tragic "super outbreak" of storms ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 29, 2011
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'Inverse Energy Cascade' May Energize Jupiter's Jet Streams
(PhysOrg.com) -- Jupiter's intense and persistent jet streams could be triggered by small-scale energy events, a planetary sciences graduate student reports.
Space Exploration
Oct 6, 2009
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Research suggests urban sprawl, wet falls and winter affect severe weather
(PhysOrg.com) -- Previously rare big city storms - like a tornado Aug. 19 that downed trees and ripped off roofs in downtown Minneapolis and the powerful thunderstorms in New York City a day earlier - may not be so unusual ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 8, 2009
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