Sentences with phrase «tornado outbreaks»

Really big tornado outbreaks happen at intervals of roughly 20 - 40 years or so.

But the study also yields a big surprise: The increased severity of such tornado outbreaks, at least at first glance, doesn't seem to be related to climate change.

Smoke from fires in Mexico and Central America may have worsened one of the largest tornado outbreaks in recent decades, a new study suggests.

The deadly tornado outbreak in the Midwest yesterday makes this final point particularly germane.

1974: The Super Outbreak is the largest tornado outbreak on record for a single 24 - hour period - 148 tornadoes, 13 US states

In the study, published in the Dec. 16 issue of Science, the researchers used new statistical tools, including extreme value analysis — a branch of statistics dealing with deviations — to analyze observation - based meteorological estimates associated with tornado outbreaks together with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration datasets.

The Iowa Tornado Outbreak of November 2005 was a large and exceptionally rare late autumn season tornado outbreak on the afternoon and evening of November 12, 2005 all throughout the state but concentrated in central Iowa.

In a new paper, published December 1 in Science via First Release, the researchers looked at increasing trends in the severity of tornado outbreaks where they measured severity by the number of tornadoes per outbreak.

«Increasing tornado outbreaks: Is climate change responsible?

The April 6 - 8, 2006 Tornado Outbreak was a major tornado outbreak in the Central and parts of the Southern United States that began on April 6, 2006 and continued until April 8 across at least 13 states, with most of the activity on April 7.

March tornado outbreaks killed 40 people in 1994, 64 people in 1984, 58 people in 1966 and 209 people in 1952.

The link between the changes in severe tornado outbreaks and an increase in storm relative helicity is unsurprising but difficult to explain, Brooks says.

«Large - scale tornado outbreaks increasing in frequency.»

The kind of framing used by McKibben in the Daily Beast also came up during the astounding tornado outbreaks earlier this year, as Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University told ThinkProgress that «climate change is present in every single meteorological event.»

Earlier studies had projected a warming climate would increase CAPE, creating conditions favorable to a rise in severe thunderstorms — and potentially tornado outbreaks.

«An assessment of changing tornado outbreak size is highly relevant to the insurance industry,» notes Kelly Hererid, AVP, Senior Research Scientist, Chubb Tempest Re R&D.

Elsner and his team point out the statistical trend — that «the risk of big tornado days featuring densely concentrated tornado outbreaks is on the rise» — but only a suggest a hypothesis for what environmental changes might be behind this trend.

In April 2011, five days before a powerful storm system tore through six southern states, NOAA's current polar - orbiting satellites provided data that, when fed into models, prompted the NOAA Storm Prediction Center to forecast «a potentially historic tornado outbreak.»

And new research shows tornado outbreaks are getting more dangerous: More tornadoes are hitting during each round, even though the overall annual number of American twisters hasn't changed.

The study by researchers including Joel E. Cohen, a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago, finds the increase in tornado outbreaks does not appear to be the result of a warming climate as earlier models suggested.

There are some natural calamities that are difficult to mediate such as this years tornado outbreak.

The prospect of a substantial tornado outbreak has ebbed since Monday night (see below), but the new Storm Prediction Center forecast still sees more tornadoes likely late today:

To date, 2012 has seen 11 disasters that have reached the $ 1 billion threshold in losses, to include Sandy, Isaac, and tornado outbreaks experienced in the Great Plains, Texas and Southeast / Ohio Valley.

He notes that high sea temperatures linked to human - driven climate warming are contributing to extreme rainfall and thunderstorm activity and possibly tornado outbreaks:

It's fine for Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research to say he feels «it is irresponsible not to mention climate change» when discussing tornado outbreaks.

On February 2, 2007, a severe thunderstorm moving across central Florida spawned three tornadoes, which resulted in 21 deaths in the second - worst tornado outbreak in state history.

But the deadly tornado outbreak Sunday night illustrated, once again, why it's time for communities at risk to consider some new approaches to building — and learning — safely in harm's way.

The reality is «unprecendented» tornado outbreaks also occurred in 1928, 1965 and 1974 and they were all associated with strong La Nina in the Pacific Ocean, just as this years are.

More extreme and violent climate is a direct consequence of human - caused climate change (whether or not we can determine if these particular tornado outbreaks were caused or worsened by climate change).

While Arkansas is not normally included within the limits of the infamous Tornado Alley, the state has suffered many devastating tornado outbreaks.

The October 2010 Arizona tornado outbreak was the largest single - day tornado event in Arizona history, with eight tornadoes touching down.

In May 2013, during a peak tornado outbreak, one single tornado resulted in more than $ 3.5 million in crop loss and more than $ 1.8 million in property damage.

As the devastation of the Illinois tornado outbreak becomes clear, REALTORS ® spring into action to help victims pick up the pieces.

In reading through some of Lauren's old Instagram captions I learned that they lost their first home in the horrific EF4 tornado outbreak that occurred in April of 2011.

The largest U.S. impacts of tornadoes result from tornado outbreaks, sequences of tornadoes that occur in close succession.

The researchers used two NOAA datasets, one containing tornado reports and the other observation - based estimates of meteorological quantities associated with tornado outbreaks.

Therefore, natural disasters (such as the recent tornado outbreak, the Asian tsunami of 2004, the Japanese earthquake, sickness, cancer, accidents) as well as evil perpetuated by others (the Sandy Hook shootings, the Boston bombings, the Holocaust, 9 - 11) are merely expressions of this god's unending, unquenchable, and unpredictable wrath upon humankind.

Her first book, «What Stands in a Storm,» is a literary nonfiction account of the biggest tornado outbreak in recorded history.

The past two years have seen major tornado outbreaks, severe impact on the northeast from tropical storms, and a devastating drought stateside.

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).

Tornadoes, including severe tornado outbreaks, have always impacted human civilization and likely always will.