The largest U.S. impacts of tornadoes result
from tornado outbreaks, sequences of tornadoes that occur in close succession.
Not exact matches
The May 2003
Tornado Outbreak Sequence in the United States was a series of
tornado outbreaks that occurred
from May 3 to May 11, 2003.
While no significant trends have been found in either the annual number of reliably reported
tornadoes or of
outbreaks, recent studies indicate increased variability in large normalized economic and insured losses
from U.S. thunderstorms, increases in the annual number of days on which many
tornadoes occur, and increases in the annual mean and variance of the number of
tornadoes per
outbreak.
This year's early March
tornado outbreak was significant for a number of reasons, according to Jake Crouch, a climatologist with the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC), and co-author of a new State of the Climate report
from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released today (April 9).
When Tippett and his colleagues pored through
tornado statistics
from 1965 through 2015, they identified 435 «extreme
outbreaks» — clusters of a dozen or more twisters rated strong enough to have caused at least moderate damage to structures.
Smoke
from fires in Mexico and Central America may have worsened one of the largest
tornado outbreaks in recent decades, a new study suggests.
Doppler radar helped quantify the initial assessment of the impact of the historic
outbreak of 305
tornadoes in the last week of April
from Texas to New York that killed more than 325 people in the U.S. Southeast.
«What's pushing this rise in extreme
outbreaks, during which the vast majority of
tornado - related fatalities occur, is far
from obvious in the present state of climate science,» said Cohen, the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor at Rockefeller University and Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, who conducted the research while a visiting scholar in UChicago's Department of Statistics.
Please pray for all the victims, we sincerely hope all are safe
from further
tornado outbreaks this season.
That means some fraction of the energy for the 1974 Super
Outbreak of
Tornadoes came
from AGW.
The past two years have seen major
tornado outbreaks, severe impact on the northeast
from tropical storms, and a devastating drought stateside.
May 25, 2011 Consumer Alerts Insurance Commissioner John Doak offers advice for Oklahomans after the recent
tornado outbreak Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John Doak offered the following advice for Oklahomans dealing with damage
from Tuesday's
tornado outbreak: What to Do if Your Home is Damaged: Call your insurance company or agent with your policy number and all relevant information as soon as possible.