High Risk for Tornadoes Today, April 14, 2012
A significant tornado outbreak is expected today in the Plains and western Midwest as strong shear, moderate to high CAPE…
Category: Tornado Outbreaks
North Texas Tornado Track and Intensity Map for April 3, 2012
A localized tornado outbreak hit north Texas on April 3. We plotted the tracks.
The April 3, 2012 Dallas/Fort Worth Tornado Outbreak Compared to Past Events
As seen in the map posted yesterday, if it’s April, north Texas sure looks like a hot spot for tornado…
NWS Fort Worth Discusses What Caused the April 3, 2012 Outbreak
The text below was included in the Area Forecast Discussion from the Dallas/Ft. Worth National Weather Service this morning. It…
Videos of the April 3, 2012 Tornado Outbreak
An historic local tornado outbreak hit the Dallas metropolitan area and surrounds. Luckily, most of the tornadoes that impacted the…
The March 13, 1990 Central U.S. Tornado Outbreak and the Hesston/Goessel F5s
Before April 27, 2011, this 1990 outbreak was the last to produce two or more F5/EF-5s. We look at the…
How the March 2012 outbreak ranks against other deadly March tornado outbreaks
Reports currently indicate nearly 40 people were killed by the March 2-3, 2012 tornado outbreak. An examination of other March…
Radar images from the March 2012 tornado outbreak
At least 54 tornadoes have been confirmed thus far (as of late yesterday) with the March 2012 tornado outbreak. Its…
March calendar day tornado records and the March 2012 outbreak
As the March 2, 2012 tornado outbreak was kicking into high gear today, I shared the image below on Twitter…
Videos from the Historic March 2, 2012 Tornado Outbreak
This March tornado outbreak struck the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys as well as parts of the South. Two violent tornadoes…
The Mississippi Valley Outbreak of 1971 and February’s only F5 tornado
Nineteen tornadoes struck from Texas to Ohio and North Carolina on February 21-22, 1971. The greatest concentration of them was…