May 4, 2007: The night that made maps of Greensburg, Kansas have to be redrawn
Nearly the whole town was destroyed by one of the scariest tornado events in recent history.
Category: Tornado Outbreaks
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…
Recent high risk storm outlooks usually foreshadow a major tornado outbreak
High risks from the Storm Prediction Center are very bad news.
The largest tornado outbreaks of 2017
Events throughout the course of the year that feature 20 or more confirmed tornadoes.
This is how the ‘surprise’ Indiana and Ohio tornado outbreak of August 24, 2016 happened
It's not often that a bunch of tornadoes happen with little notice. Could we have seen it coming?
May 9, 2016 tornado outbreak videos from the Plains and Midwest
Tornadoes have been confirmed in Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Iowa from the first larger daytime event of the year in that…
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…
The largest tornado outbreaks of 2016
2016 is off to a quick start for tornadoes, with several tornado outbreaks occurring even before the main season gets…
November 2015 High Plains tornado outbreak was rare and historic for the region
This storm was an oddball. While it hit a place that sees tornadoes with regularity, the timing was kind of…
Hurricane Katrina also caused a tornado outbreak
Best known for being a Category 5 monster that inundated New Orleans, five dozen twisters also scoured the landscape during…
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.…