Historic outbreak sequences: Eight days of mayhem in late May and early June 1917
The 1917 case is perhaps the most relentless of all the outbreak sequence events that that will be covered in…
Author: Andrew Berrington
Undergraduate student in Atmospheric Sciences at the University of British Columbia. See full bio.
Historic outbreak sequences: Five major tornado events during the second half of May 1896
For the first case study on outbreak sequences, we examine two weeks of nearly nonstop tornadoes. Twisters brought devastating results…
Examining outbreak sequences: The building blocks of a multi-round tornado event
Every so often, tornado outbreaks come in volleys. In the first part of a series on outbreak sequences, we look…
May 31, 1985: A tornado outbreak out of place
You might expect a volley of violent tornadoes in the Plains or the South, but not in Pennsylvania and surrounds.…
Palm Sunday 1965: Southern Great Lakes ravaged by one of the worst tornado outbreaks on record
On April 11, 1965, and over a time span of approximately 12 hours, one of the most infamous tornado events…