Tornado Alley We get asked a lot about what exactly is Tornado Alley and where is it. The term “Tornado Alley” is an area on the United States where Tornadoes occur the most. The term was first used back in 1952 as the title of a research project by U.S. Air Force Meteorologists Major…
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Our own storm chaser, Timothy Hedrick from Cutler, IL, spent the day surveying the tornado aftermath with Michael Phelps of StormScapeLive.TV and Don Murray of StormMapping.com from the Perryville, MO tornado that struck Tuesday, February 28, 2017. Timothy along with Michael Phelps takes Extreme Weather Videos inside some of the hardest hit areas. The NWS Paducah office…
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What was originally forecast to be a marginal risk for severe weather across parts of the Ohio Valley turned into a line of tornadic supercells! So many people keep asking the question, why did this happen? Why did the storms in Indiana and Ohio become such prolific tornado producing storms? The National Weather Service has…
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Typically, when we think of tornadoes, the first place we think of is “tornado alley” in the Central US. But tornadoes occur all over the world too! This video is just now surfacing from what looks like mid April, and shows INCREDIBLE tornado video from the city of Amarah, in southern Iraq! Watch near the 10…
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On March 8, 2016 a tornado touched down in Texas demolishing a trailer park. On March 9, 2016, NWS completed their evaluation of the disaster area and released their findings and rated this tornado as a EF1 tornado. Also, NWS in Shreveport, Louisiana issued a state of emergency and as of Thursday, March 10,2016 there is…
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This post originates from the National Weather Service Office in Peachtree City, GA: http://www.srh.noaa.gov/ffc/?n=severeweathernovember18,2015 A strong upper low pressure system and associated surface front brought a squall line of storms across the area during the late afternoon and evening hours of Wednesday, November 18. While instability for storm development was low, there was strong wind…
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Today there is an enhanced risk for severe weather across parts of the central and southern Plains. Strong tornadoes will be possible, especially into portions of southern Nebraska and central Kansas. Below is the convective outlook and tornado outlook for today across the area. Here is the official wording from the Storm Prediction Center for…
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