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May 21, 2013 |
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New technology that increases the warning time for tornadoes and hurricanes could potentially save hundreds of lives every year
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A climate scientist reflects on what global warming means for extreme weather
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The twister that struck Moore, Okla., was the deadliest U.S. tornado since one killed 161 people in Joplin, Missouri, two years ago
Every year tornadoes rip through the U.S. Midwest, leaving death, injury and billions of dollars of damage in their wake. Where do these twisters come from, and just how nasty can they get? Scientific American editor Mark Fischetti reports.
Advances in computer modeling and other technologies still cannot overcome the fundamental complexity of thunderstorm and subsequent tornado formation
Large-scale, upper-level atmospheric disturbances could be used in forecast models to better predict the initiation of storms
Storm-chasing scientists with the VORTEX2 two-year field experiment explain what they know and what they don't know about how and why tornadoes form.
In VORTEX2, the largest scientific study of tornadoes, scientists are trying to understand just what causes a twister to form. It's more complicated than you might think. Christie Nicholson reports
How funnels form, what drives tornado activity, and what scientists are doing to better understand them--our collection of articles, video and podcasts explain the basics
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