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Pete, a veteran storm chaser, attempts to intercept and film tornadoes using Titus, a Tornado Intercept Vehicle, but has come up short all year long. Upon learning of a major line of developing storms, his team of chasers decide to head for the town of Silverton, Oklahoma, in hopes of filming tornadoes. After arriving there, the team discovers ...
The 2011 Super Outbreak was the largest tornado outbreak spawned by a single weather system in recorded history; it produced 367 tornadoes from April 25–28, with 223 of those in a single 24-hour period on April 27 from midnight to midnight CDT, [5] [12] fifteen of which were violent EF4–EF5 tornadoes. 348 deaths occurred in that outbreak, of which 324 were tornado related.
With a rating of at least F3 from the World Meteorological Organization and top winds estimated at greater than 200 mph (320 km/h), the tornado killed an estimated 1,300 people and injured at least 12,000 others. Of all the recorded tornadoes with death tolls of 100 or greater, at least 24 of them occurred in Bangladesh and/or India, and two of ...
Geostorm. In a world where satellites control the weather (lol), all that stands between an expert hacker and world-ending natural disasters is one man, and one man only: Gerard Butler.
"Tornado Tommy", who survived his apparent death in the previous film, returns to aid in tracking the storm in the United States, assisted by scientist Faith Clavell. Similar storms are developing around the country and an interaction between urban heat islands and "falling chunks of mesosphere " fuels the storms making them more powerful.
The deadliest tornado in modern U.S. history struck Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011. It was the deadliest tornado since SPC records began in 1950. Nearly 1,000 were injured. The EF5 tornado had ...
That gave us the ability to study tornadoes in a lot more detail than we ever had before. We also had a stills guy, Giles Hancock, who took high-resolution [photo] sets of storm clouds.
In all, 15 tornadoes touched down, one of which was long lived and tracked for nearly 40 miles (64 km). Affecting mainly the Interstate 4 (I-4) corridor of Central Florida, including the Greater Orlando area, the tornadoes—among the strongest ever recorded in Florida—produced near-violent damage, killed 42 people, and caused 259 injuries.