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StormReady is a community preparedness program in the United States that encourages government entities and commercial gathering sites to prepare for severe storms. [1] The program, sponsored by the United States National Weather Service , issues recognition to communities and sites across the country that demonstrate severe weather readiness.
Date: 1994 and 1995: Location: Tornado Alley: Also known as: Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment 1: Outcome: Documented an entire tornado, which, in conjunction with deployment of the NEXRAD system, helped the National Weather Service to provide severe weather warnings with a thirteen-minute lead time, and reduce false alarms by ten percent.
This radar was used to scan and film the complete life cycle of a tornado in 1973. By comparing the film with velocity images from the radar, the researchers found a pattern that showed the tornado beginning to form before it could be visually detected on the film. The researchers named this phenomenon the Tornado Vortex Signature (TVS). [6]
Severe tornado damage occurs with an EF3 tornado, which has wind speeds of 136 to 165 mph. Some walls of well-constructed houses can be torn off. Most trees in the path of the twister will be ...
Several nonprofits are receiving grants from the Wayne County Foundation. Wayne County Foundation awards over $200,000 in grants to local nonprofits for Cycle III Skip to main content
The U.S. Small Business Administration has made low interest loans available for those impacted by the March 14 tornado outbreak in Ohio.
The high risk, which lasted the entire Day 1 Outlook cycle, was initially issued for a 30% hatched area for tornadoes; this was upgraded to a 45% hatched area for tornadoes at 1606Z. A total of 40 tornadoes were confirmed during the outlook period, four of which were rated EF2, although little tornado activity occurred within the 45% risk area.
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air in contact with the surface and a cumuliform cloud base. Tornado formation is caused by the stretching and aggregating/merging of environmental and/or storm-induced vorticity that tightens into an intense vortex. There are various ways this may come about and thus various forms and sub-forms of ...