Tornado Digest
Tornado Weekly: April 15-21, 2012
The week began with significant potential a day after a major outbreak, but that potential failed to materialize. Otherwise quiet,…
Tornado Education Tornado Outbreaks
Tornado Reports are Reports, Not Tornadoes
Look at all those dots! SPC heavily notes they are "reports," yet over and over these reports are called individual…
Tornado Threat Forecast
Tornado Threat Forecast: Apr 19-25, 2012
1-3 DAY Forecast FAQ UPDATE: Added southern Florida risk area for Saturday. Thursday Iowa, northern Missouri — POTENTIAL: Very Low…
Tornado Climatology
Significant April Tornadoes in the United States
Out of 7,885 tornadoes total in April (1950-2011), 2,161 — or 27% — were rated as significant F2/EF-2+ tornadoes. In…
Tornado Outbreaks
April 14, 2012 Tornado Outbreak Regional Radar and Visible Satellite Loops
Full event loop of regional radar + daytime loop of visible satellite. A quick way to relive the only major…
Tornado Threat Forecast
Tornado Threat Forecast: April 16-22, 2012
1-3 DAY Monday Northern Mid-Atlantic — POTENTIAL: Very Low — CONFIDENCE: High Storms forming along and ahead of a cold…
Tornado Digest
Tornado Weekly: April 8-14, 2012
A much-touted tornado outbreak arrived on April 14 as a strong upper-level low pushed out into the Plains. Kansas was…
Tornado Outbreaks
April 14, 2012 Outbreak Forecast Verification
The Storm Prediction Center had a pretty stellar forecast for the April 2012 tornado outbreak.
Tornado Outbreaks
April 14, 2012 Tornado Outbreak – Debris Ball Radar Loops
Two tornadic cells tearing through Oklahoma and Kansas produced debris ball signatures on Doppler radar… at one point they were…
Tornado Videos
Videos from the April 13, April 14 and April 15, 2012 Tornado Outbreak Sequence
A major outbreak of tornadoes -- centered on Kansas -- hit the Plains in mid-April. Numerous strong tornadoes occurred in…
Tornado Outbreaks
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…
Tornado Chasing
Tornado Chasing: Q&A with Veteran Storm Chaser Amos Magliocco
Amos Magliocco caught his first supercell in 1996, and has been hooked ever since. Currently residing in the southern part…