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This article describes severe weather terminology used by the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States. The NWS is a government agency operating as an arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) branch. It defines precise meanings for nearly all of its weather terms.
This article describes NWS terminology and related weather scales used by the agency. Some terms may be specific to certain cities or regions. Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) product codes assigned to each term for NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) broadcasts are included in (following the title of the described alert type if used) products that do not have a specified code are identified where applicable as Non-Precipitation Warnings/Watches/Advisories (NPW), Coastal Flood Warnings/Watches/Advisories (CFW), Marine Weather Statement (MWS), Mesoscale Discussion (MCD) or Severe Weather Warnings/Watches/Advisories (WSW) as defined by NOAA. (Full article...)Selected tornado list -
This is a list of all tornadoes that were confirmed by local offices of the National Weather Service in the United States from November to December 2013. Based on the 1991–2010 averaging period, 58 tornadoes occur across the United States throughout November while 24 more occur in December.
Despite only having only four tornado day, November finished well-above average with 82 tornadoes, 77 of which touched down during a large and deadly outbreak on November 17. The outbreak was the deadliest and costliest November tornado outbreak in Illinois, and the fourth-largest for the state overall. Indiana also experienced its largest outbreak for the month of November, and the second largest outbreak recorded in the state. A significant outbreak also occurred in December, which finished at a near-average 18 tornadoes. (Full article...)Selected image -
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2024 tornado activity
A large, deadly and major tornado outbreak occurred across the Central and Southern United States from May 6–10, 2024, as a result of a slow-moving trough that was moving across the country. The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) issued a tornado-driven high risk convective outlook for portions of central Oklahoma and extreme southern Kansas early on May 6. Millions of people were put under a particularly dangerous situation (PDS) tornado watch later that evening, as many tornadoes were reported across the region, particularly in Oklahoma, where a violent EF4 tornado struck the towns of Barnsdall and Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Severe and tornadic weather spread eastward over the Mississippi, Ohio, and Tennessee Valleys over the next two days, with a nocturnal outbreak occurring in the latter on May 8, as tornadic supercell thunderstorms produced many tornadoes across the states of Tennessee, northern Alabama and western Georgia. The system responsible for the outbreak finally moved offshore by May 10 after producing several more tornadoes across the Southeast, including 2 EF2 tornadoes and hurricane-strength straight-line winds that moved through Tallahassee. This large outbreak came less than two weeks after a similarly large and deadly outbreak occurred across most of the same regions.
Three fatalities directly linked to the tornadoes have been confirmed so far, with the majority in Oklahoma; one tornadic death also occurred in Tennessee on May 8. Three non-tornadic deaths related to straight-line winds also occurred. In addition, during the course of the outbreak, tornado emergencies were issued for three consecutive days between May 6–8 for damaging tornadoes; the last time that this phenomenon had occurred was exactly 21 years prior, where tornado emergencies were issued for four consecutive days between May 6–9, 2003, during a similarly large outbreak.
167 tornadoes have been confirmed from the outbreak overall, most of which were clustered around Oklahoma, Michigan, Tennessee, and Alabama, earning 51 points on the outbreak intensity score. (Full article...)List of 2024 tornado articles
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Tornado anniversaries
June 3
- 1860 - A long-track tornado traveled across eastern Iowa and western Illinois, killing 92 people. The greatest loss was in Camanche, Iowa, where at least 41 people died and every building was severely damaged or destroyed.
- 1980 – one of the costliest tornado events in U.S. history, a series of six tornadoes, forming a complex tornado family, moved across Grand Island, Nebraska, killing five people and causing $300 million in damage, equivalent to $1,109 million in 2023. Most of the deaths and damage wee from a single F4 tornado that followed a curving path along the south side of the city. This event was the inspiration for the 1996 movie Night of the Twisters.
- 2009 – An F3 tornado touched down in Russia in the town of Krasnozavodsk, killing one person and injuring 185.
June 4
- 1877 – An F4 tornado devastated Mount Carmel, Illinois, killing at least 16 people and injuring 100. A total of 20 businesses and 100 homes were destroyed; some were swept away.
- 1958 – A major tornado outbreak hit the Upper Midwest. Three violent tornadoes from a single supercell killed 28 people in northwestern Wisconsin. The first of these, a fast-moving F5 tornado, struck the north side of Menomonie and devastated parts of Colfax, killing 21 people and injuring 110. After Colfax tornado dissipated, an F4 tornado struck Chippewa Falls, killing three people and injuring 56. Yet another F4 tornado, the last member of the tornado family, killed four more people south of Boyd and passed south of Stanley and Owen.
June 5
- 1908 – An outbreak produced multiple violent tornadoes near the Kansas/Nebraska state line, killing 20 people. An F5 tornado killed 12 people as it traveled from near Deshler, Nebraska, across the eastern part of Carleton to near Geneva. Several farms were so completely destroyed that there was little evidence that they had even existed. Five people died in one family.
- 1916 – A tornado outbreak killed at least 99 people across the Central United States, with most of the deaths in Arkansas. An F4 tornado or tornado family killed at least 25 people on a path from near Barney to near Almond, Arkansas, including at least 18 in the devastation of Heber Springs. An F3 tornado destroyed a small community near Judsonia, Arkansas, killing nine people, including five children in one family. Another F3 tornado killed seven people, all in one house, near Sikeston, Missouri.
- 1917 – A tornado outbreak resulted in at least 49 deaths across the Midwestern United States. An F4 tornado killed 20 people in Cooper and Boone Counties, Missouri, including 7 in Centralia. Another F4 tornado killed nine people as it obliterated farms near Topeka, Kansas. An F3 tornado killed nine people as it passed between Norwood and Mountain Grove, Missouri.
Did you know…
- ...that the 2013 Moore tornado that struck Moore and Newcastle, Oklahoma, is the most recent EF5 tornado?
- ...that the 2021 South Moravia tornado, an IF4 tornado with winds between 207–260 mph (333–418 km/h), was the strongest tornado to hit the Czech Republic in modern history?
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Widespread devastation in a residential area of Dawson Springs (from 2021 Western Kentucky tornado) -
EF3 damage to businesses in downtown Dresden, Tennessee. (from Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021) -
Major structural damage to a house near Hartford (from 2021 Western Kentucky tornado) -
High-end EF3 damage to homes in the Creekwood subdivision in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Numerous fatalities occurred in this area. (from Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021) -
A satellite view of the extratropical cyclone that was responsible for the tornado outbreak on December 11. (from Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021) -
Low-end EF4 damage to a business in downtown Cayce (from 2021 Western Kentucky tornado) -
Aerial view of EF4 damage in Mayfield the day after the tornado (from 2021 Western Kentucky tornado) -
Radar collage of a supercell that spawned a tornado family during the outbreak (from Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021) -
A multi-ton freight car that was thrown from the tracks in Barnsley (from 2021 Western Kentucky tornado) -
Trees that were completely debarked and denuded near Buckeye, Arkansas. (from Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021) -
Derecho moving across eastern Nebraska and western Iowa (from December 2021 Midwest derecho and tornado outbreak) -
A liquor store that was destroyed in the western part of Bowling Green, Kentucky. (from Tornado outbreak of December 10–11, 2021) -
High-end EF4 damage to a house in Bremen (from 2021 Western Kentucky tornado) -
Debris and destroyed homes along Alexander Street in Dawson Springs (from 2021 Western Kentucky tornado) -
Radar 3D volume scan of the supercell showing debris lofted over 30,000 feet (9.1 km) in the air as the tornado struck Mayfield (from 2021 Western Kentucky tornado)
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Although historically the U.S. state of Connecticut is not typically known to fall casualty to tornadoes, more than 100 of these powerful storms have affected the state in modern history, resulting in at least 48 deaths, 780 injuries, and more than $500 million in damage. This list of tornadoes in the state is likely incomplete, as official records date back only to 1950 for tornadoes in the United States.
As with most of the northeastern United States, the number of tornadoes peaks in the summer months, normally in July or August. Hartford County has had the most tornadoes in the state, although since 1950 Litchfield County has reported the most tornadoes. Several areas have been struck more than once, and Waterbury has been struck by no less than four tornadoes since 1955. (Full article...)List of Featured articles and lists
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