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Large Outdoor Gatherings Expose Event-Goers to Severe Weather

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 21 April 202521 April 2025

Researchers pinpointed the riskiest events in terms of lightning and tornado exposure by mining data from more than 16,000 large outdoor gatherings.

A gray funnel cloud touching Earth’s surface
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A New Tornado Database Helps Researchers Worldwide

by Andrew J. Wight 3 January 20257 January 2025

Thanks to unique geography and atmospheric conditions, the United States is a tornado hot spot, but these deadly whirlwinds also hit Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

A curved tornado kicking up a brown plume of dirt beneath a dark gray sky
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The Surprising Factor Making the United States a Tornado Hot Spot

by Sushmita Pathak 16 August 202414 August 2024

The roughness of terrain far upstream of where tornadoes occur can affect their formation. It could be what drives the contrast in tornado activity between North and South America.

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Is It Climate Change? Americans Mostly Say Yes

by Grace van Deelen 18 June 202418 June 2024

Most Americans think climate change plays some role in creating extreme weather, though their perceptions didn’t always align with scientists’.

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Foundations in Hazards and Disasters for Undergraduate Students

by Bethany D. Hinga 22 April 202423 April 2024

A new textbook for undergraduates explores different types of natural hazards and disasters through foundational scientific knowledge, engaging case studies, and mitigation strategies.

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Jen Walton: Chaser of Storms and Lava

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 25 July 202315 November 2023

Walton founded Girls Who Chase to promote women in STEM.

A blue truck with a tall pole and a large, gray circular device is parked on a street next to a person. A tornado spins in a field far in the background.
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Tornadoes’ Fastest Winds Howl Close to the Ground

by Carolyn Wilke 3 April 20235 April 2023

Radar data from storm-tracking scientists reveal that twisters’ winds churn 30% faster near Earth’s surface than above 100 meters, where measurements usually are taken.

Looking across Midwestern cropland, the viewer sees a tornado extending down from thick, gray-blue clouds to meet the horizon. To the tornado’s left, a funnel cloud companion looks like a thin finger pointing toward Earth from the bottom of the clouds.
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A Hotter Earth Means Stronger Tornadoes

by Saima May Sidik 13 December 202113 December 2021

Although their frequency may decrease, models suggest anthropogenic climate change will increase the intensity of tornado outbreaks.

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Radar Observations of a Tornado Associated with Typhoon Hagibis

by Suzana Camargo 23 October 202025 February 2022

Analysis of tornadogenesis processes on a shallow supercell associated with Typhoon Hagibis using finely resolved rapid-scan radar observations at a very close range.

A mobile home park devastated by tornado damage
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Tornado Warnings Don’t Adequately Prepare Mobile Home Residents

by C. Crockett 15 May 20197 March 2024

A survey of the southeastern United States shows that nearly half of mobile home residents don’t know where to shelter during a tornado, and many aren’t getting the resources they need to survive one.

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