U.S. Severe Weather Blog
This blog is intended to facilitate communication about the impacts of selected severe weather events, particularly major tornadoes, in the United States in near-real-time. We hope it will allow us to assist media, forecasters, researchers, emergency managers, and other interested parties to understand what we at the NOAA Weather Partners in Norman, Oklahoma have been able to gather about the events. We also hope to include information that puts recent events into historical perspective and provide guidance about how to interpret the record of reported events.
This blog is not intended to provide critical weather forecast information. For that, go to the National Weather Service, especially the Storm Prediction Center for national guidance, and your local National Weather Service Forecast Office for local information. Find it here. Nor is this intended to provide information on a broad range of research topics associated with severe weather. For that, we refer you to the National Severe Storms Laboratory.
The Tornado “Drought” of 2012
No Tornado Deaths in May 2012
In May 2012, there were no tornado deaths in the United States. How unusual was that? We can look at the record of tornado deaths, discussed here, dating back to…
Bi-monthly Tornado Counts and ENSO Phase Strength
April 4-5, 2011 Severe Weather
10 May 2010 tornado outbreak
Information on the 10 May 2010 tornado outbreak in Oklahoma and Kansas
Some brief notes on the 24 April 2010 long-track tornado
Preliminary information on the long-track tornado that went from eastern Louisiana across much of Mississippi. 1. It had a path length of at least 97 miles. Over the last 40…
Can tornado activity through April portend May?
One tornado in February 2010 (UPDATED)
A late tornado report has been received, so there’s now 1 tornado in the database for February 2010.