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A severe thunderstorm swept across Central Kentucky on Tuesday morning, leaving thousands without power and damage across Lexington. The National Weather Service has confirmed six EF-1 tornadoes ...
This year overall, the U.S. has seen an abnormally high number of strong tornadoes linked to hurricanes. Although tornadoes are common when hurricanes make landfall, most are on the weaker end of ...
The National Weather Service (NWS) issued 126 tornado warnings in Florida on Wednesday, Oct. 9, a new state record. A total of 45 tornado reports were received during the storms, and the NWS had ...
Severe weather can occur under a variety of situations, but three characteristics are generally needed: a temperature or moisture boundary, moisture, and (in the event of severe, precipitation-based events) instability in the atmosphere.
The climate-tornado link is confounded by the forces affecting larger patterns and by the local, nuanced nature of tornadoes. Although it is reasonable to suspect that global warming may affect trends in tornado activity, [ 103 ] any such effect is not yet identifiable due to the complexity, local nature of the storms, and database quality issues.
A tornado is an example of an extreme weather event. This tornado struck Anadarko, Oklahoma during a tornado outbreak in 1999. Extreme weather includes unexpected, unusual, severe, or unseasonal weather; weather at the extremes of the historical distribution—the range that has been seen in the past.
Hurricane-tornado combo makes for a 'double disaster' The outer bands of Milton spawned tornadoes more than 100 miles from where the hurricane made landfall in Florida's west coast, considerably ...
Tornadoes, despite being one of the most destructive weather phenomena, are generally short-lived. A long-lived tornado generally lasts no more than an hour, but some have been known to last for 2 hours or longer (for example, the Tri-state tornado). Due to their relatively short duration, less information is known about the development and ...