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Three Questions About Last Weekend’s Devastating Tornado Outbreak
Three Questions About Last Weekend’s Devastating Tornado Outbreak A neighborhood in Mayfield, Kentucky, on December 12. Photo: State Farm On Friday night, an unusually violent and long-lasting tornado outbreak rampaged through six states. It killed at least 88 people, damaged homes, and tore apart communities. Disaster response crews continue to search through the wreckage for missing persons.
Future Global Convective Environments in CMIP6 Models
Abstract The response of severe convective storms to a warming climate is poorly understood outside of a few well studied regions. Here, projections from seven global climate models from the CMIP6 archive, for both historical and future scenarios, are used to explore the global response in variables that describe favorability of conditions for the development of severe storms.
Winter 2021-22 Outlook
Local Winter Outlook: Winter 2021-22 Temperature Outlook: Locally, the odds have been tilted slightly toward warmer-than-normal in northeast Iowa, southeast Minnesota, and western Wisconsin. Why warmer-than-normal? This was due to trends in the climate models and what has occurred over the past 10 winters. The climate models (CFS version 2, Canadian, and Copernicus- C3S) are favoring near- to above-normal temperatures for this winter.
ENSO-based probabilistic forecasts of March-May U.S. tornado and hail activity
Extended Logistic Regression is used to predict March-May severe convective storm (SCS) activity based on the preceding December-February (DJF) ENSO state. The spatially-resolved probabilistic forecasts are verified against U.S. tornado counts, hail events and two environmental indices for severe convection.
ENSO and tornadoes
The 2017 U.S. severe weather season has jumped out to a fast start with above-average numbers of tornado, hail and wind reports.
More tornadoes in the most extreme U.S. tornado outbreaks
The frequency of tornado outbreaks (clusters of tornadoes) and the number of extremely powerful tornado events have been increasing over nearly the past half-century in the United States. Tippett et al. found that tornado outbreaks have become more common since the 1970s. This increase seems to have been driven by consistent changes in the meteorological environment that make tornadoes more likely to form.
More tornadoes in the most extreme U.S. tornado outbreaks
Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms kill people and damage property every year. Estimated U.S. insured losses due to severe thunderstorms in the first half of 2016 were 8.5 billion USD. The largest U.S. impacts of tornadoes result from tornado outbreaks, which are sequences of tornadoes that occur in close succession. Here, using extreme value analysis, we find that the frequency of U.S. outbreaks with many tornadoes is increasing and is increasing faster for more extreme outbreaks.
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