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Tornado Threat Forecast – Mar 22-28, 2012

1-3 DAY Forecast FAQ Thursday Southeast, southern Plains — POTENTIAL: Medium — CONFIDENCE: High The highest tornado potential comes with…
Mark Ellinwood
Tornado Climatology

March tornado deaths since 1950

We took a cursory look at March tornado deaths in the general overview of March tornadoes — there were 676…
Ian Livingston
Tornado Threat Forecast

Tornado Threat Forecast – Mar 19-25, 2012

NOTE: Our POTENTIAL category has been adjusted to better balance the wording with the true risk. Please visit our Forecast…
Mark Ellinwood
Tornado Threat Analysis for March 18, 2012
Tornado Threat Update

Tornado Threat Analysis for March 18, 2012

Instability is growing and we are getting closer to storm initiation along the dry line this afternoon.
Mark Ellinwood
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U.S. Tornadoes, the flickr photo group

Pictures of tornadoes are usually pretty amazing, right? We think so. We’ve recently started up a group on flickr called…
Ian Livingston
Tornado Threat Forecast

Tornado Threat Forecast – Mar 15-21, 2012

1-3 DAY See our new “Forecast FAQ” which explains the maps as well as the POTENTIAL and CONFIDENCE meanings. Thursday…
Mark Ellinwood
Tornado Climatology

Total U.S. Tornadoes by Month and by Day

Tornadoes can happen — and have happened — all year long, though spring and summer are well known as the…
Ian Livingston
The March 13, 1990 Central U.S. Tornado Outbreak and the Hesston/Goessel F5s
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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…
Ian Livingston
Tornado Threat Forecast

Tornado Threat Forecast – Mar 12-18, 2012

Note: This is the first entry from a new contributor who is a meteorologist by day and a storm chaser…
Mark Ellinwood
U.S. Tornado History: The Smithsonian Institution’s “Queries Relative to Tornadoes,” circa 1860s
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U.S. Tornado History: The Smithsonian Institution’s “Queries Relative to Tornadoes,” circa 1860s

For much of the mid-1800s, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. was the center of weather observation for the United…
Ian Livingston
Tornado History

#OnThisDay: Selected March tornadoes

Follow on Twitter or Facebook to see these regular daily updates as they are sent out.  Mar 1, 1948 Henderson…
Ian Livingston
How the March 2012 outbreak ranks against other deadly March tornado outbreaks
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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…
Ian Livingston

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