Category Archives: tornadoes

Tornadoes make the earth move

Posted on March 8, 2012 by

From Indiana University Scientists detect seismic signals from tornado BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — An Indiana University geophysical experiment detected unusual seismic signals associated with tornadoes that struck regions across the Midwest last week — information that may have value for meteorologists … Continue reading →

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Tornado outbreak tracking

Posted on March 1, 2012 by

By Rob Gutro NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center A satellite animation of NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite imagery showed the movement of the front that triggered severe storms and tornadoes in several states on February 29, 2012. Today, NASA released a GOES … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourced Climate Complexity – Compiling the WUWT Potential Climatic Variables Reference Page

Posted on February 19, 2012 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments, which began on this thread on January, 15th 2011, and grew on January 22nd, 2011, February 10th, 2011, February 28th, 2011, June 30th, 2011 … Continue reading →

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The Ridiculousness Continues – Climate Complexity Compiled

Posted on January 21, 2012 by

By WUWT regular “Just The Facts” With the help of an array of WUWT reader comments on this thread and several others documented within, I’ve been compiling a summary of all potential climatic variables in order to build a conceptual … Continue reading →

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Even with a busy tornado year, still no upward trend in tornadoes

Posted on January 5, 2012 by

US Tornado Trends–Updated to 2011 Guest post by Paul Homewood 2011 has obviously been a disastrous year for tornadoes in the USA, but does this reflect an increasing trend in either the number or severity of tornadoes? The NOAA graph below … Continue reading →

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The weekday -vs- weekend weather effect

Posted on August 26, 2011 by

Hailstorms and tornadoes are more common during the weekday due to human created aerosols. By Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. New Paper “Why Do Tornados And Hail Storms Rest On Weekends” By Rosenfeld and Bell 2011 There is a new paper which … Continue reading →

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On this July 4th, thank “climate disruption” for saving the USA in 1814

Posted on July 4, 2011 by

This is a little known story about how a tornado saved the United States from the British in the War of 1812 as they started to burn Washington, DC. Just having come from there for ICCC6, and this being Independence … Continue reading →

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Bastardi on the non-existent climate-tornado linkage

Posted on June 3, 2011 by

UPDATE: Graph added below per request from Joe Bastardi. But first, let’s listen to expert on all things public, scientific, and climatic, Rosie O’Donnell From Fox News: Living in an era when pop culture celebrities can assert “expert” opinions on … Continue reading →

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Climate craziness of the week: “ethics requires” linking tornadoes to climate change

Posted on June 1, 2011 by

Since this essay by Penn State’s Associate Professor Donald A. Brown is placed on a publicly funded university web server,  I’m repeating this in entirety here for discussion. Be sure to see what I found at the end. Why Ethics … Continue reading →

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Tornadoes and global warming – still no linkage

Posted on May 27, 2011 by

While Joe Romm, Bill McKibben, and others follow the fear card script to do everything and anything they can to link severe weather to global warming, they are clearly fighting a losing battle for public opinion on the issue. Now, … Continue reading →

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Another tornado outbreak expected

Posted on May 25, 2011 by

From the NOAA Storm Prediction Center: PUBLIC SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 1226 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2011 …MAJOR TORNADO AND SEVERE WEATHER OUTBREAK EXPECTED OVER PARTS OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI…MID MISSISSIPPI…AND LOWER OHIO VALLEYS … Continue reading →

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Tornado season update

Posted on May 24, 2011 by

NOAA’s Preliminary tornado statistics including records set in 2011, from noaa.gov On Sunday, May 22, a devastating tornado hit the city of Joplin, Mo., leaving an estimated 116 people dead and several hundred others injured. This tied the June 8, … Continue reading →

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NOAA CSI: no attribution of climate change to tornado outbreak

Posted on May 9, 2011 by

All the bloviation from Think Progress, Climate Progress and the rest of those people that want to turn any disaster into a link to climate change are doing is just that: bloviating. Told ya so. Here’s the preliminary report from … Continue reading →

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NOAA tornado outbreak update: 305 tornadoes

Posted on May 4, 2011 by

NOAA’s preliminary estimate is that there were 305 tornadoes during the entire outbreak from 8:00 a.m. EDT April 25 to 8:00 a.m. April 28, 2011. NWS created a table to provide clearer insight into the number of tornadoes. Each of … Continue reading →

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NOAA releases aerial imagery of Tuscaloosa, AL tornado damage

Posted on May 2, 2011 by

Before and after imagery depicting tornado damage in the vicinity of the intersection of 15th St. E. and McFarland Blvd. E. in southeast Tuscaloosa, AL. The before imagery is courtesy of Google, the after imagery was acquired from an altitude … Continue reading →

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The folly of linking tornado outbreaks to “climate change”

Posted on April 29, 2011 by

In times of tragedy, there always seems to be hucksters about trying to use that tragedy to sell a position, a product, or a belief. In ancient times, tragedy was the impetus used to appease the gods and to embrace … Continue reading →

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Aqua satellite images tornado damage path

Posted on April 29, 2011 by

Mike Smith of meteorological musings writes: Brown Gashes on an Otherwise Green Earth You’ll want to click to enlarge this image. This from the AQUA earth-monitoring satellite. These tornadoes were so large they left visible brown gashes on the Alabama … Continue reading →

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“…it would be a mistake to blame climate change for a seeming increase in tornadoes”

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

I was very encouraged by this part of the story:

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Post facto review on yesterday’s tornado outbreak

Posted on April 28, 2011 by

UPDATE: I’ve added a firsthand account from Dr. Roy Spencer below. Epic Tornado Outbreak ends today with focus near East Coast By Joseph D’Aleo from Weatherbell.com We talked about this would be a season of major floods and severe weather … Continue reading →

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Tornado hits St. Louis airport

Posted on April 23, 2011 by

The airport is closed due to damages. Video follows.

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