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Running from an EF-5: Part Two
This is Part Two of a series of three about my experience with the EF-5 tornado that went through four counties in Mississippi on April 27, 2011. Part One can be found here, and Part Three, an account...
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Running from an EF-5: Part Three
I hope everyone had a good Mother’s Day, or just a good Sunday. This is Part Three of the series about the EF-5 tornado that went through central Mississippi on April 27, 2011. Part One and Part Two...
View ArticleWhat’s Going Wrong?
This year has had a truly terrible human toll from tornadoes. The current fatality count, approximately 500, is an order of magnitude larger than the average for an entire year. It is to be hoped that...
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Ringing In the 2011 Hurricane Season
I think it’s safe to say that I am joined by a substantial part of the Southeast and Midwest in bidding a very loud “GOOD RIDDANCE” to the 2011 spring severe weather season, even as a student...
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A Tropical System For the Gulf To Watch
A tropical wave, designated 90L by the National Hurricane Center, is worthy of being watched by the Gulf Coast states. This system is arguably the first tropical system of real interest to the Gulf...
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90L: Weak and Into the Gulf
The area of interest in the Atlantic, 90L, has become more likely to enter the Gulf of Mexico. After a time yesterday when it was trying to spin up, the system has stayed weak and is now beginning to...
View ArticleEmily Is a Threat To the U.S.
After days of teasing weather watchers (and the National Hurricane Center), a tropical wave in the Atlantic has formed into Tropical Storm Emily. The storm is rather disorganized and not at all...
View ArticleEmily Organizes; Gulf Threat Decreases
Tropical Storm Emily struggled through most of last night and today with disorganization, an aftereffect of its multivortex structure as an unnamed disturbance. However, it has become better stacked...
View ArticleNWA 2011: Thoughts About Tornado Warnings and the Casualty Count
I attended the National Weather Association’s conference in Birmingham, Alabama, for two days. Toward the end of the second day, the main focus of the talks was the terrible death count from tornadoes...
View ArticleWas the Joplin Tornado the Deadliest We Can Expect?
Meteorologists and weather-watchers are bidding the year 2011 a less-than-fond farewell. While it was certainly a banner year from the point of view of storm chasing—6 EF-5 tornadoes, 17 EF-4s, and...
View ArticleThoughts on Instrumental Measurements in Tornado Ratings
It’s been a while since I blogged anything. I’ve decided that I do not really want to be a forecaster, but instead, a research meteorologist, and the war for funding is so intense that I’d much rather...
View ArticleFor the Record
The El Reno tornado (2013) was, in the official records, downgraded from EF-5 to EF-3 on the basis that EF-5 damage was not found and “the Enhanced Fujita scale is a damage scale” (quotation my own)....
View ArticleWhat’s Going Wrong?
This year has had a truly terrible human toll from tornadoes. The current fatality count, approximately 500, is an order of magnitude larger than the average for an entire year. It is to be hoped that...
View ArticleCounting Storm Shelters Along the Highway
Not long ago, during spring break, I went to Huntsville, Alabama with family on a quick getaway. We’d had a harsh three weeks of winter conditions in an area that is unaccustomed to them, and which is...
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