Texas severe weather season is here. Here's a step-by-step on how tornadoes form
Tornadoes are among nature's fiercest furies. Despite the destruction they can cause, the mechanism that results in tornadoes ...
Why forecasting where tornadoes will hit is still hard to do − even though storm predictions are improving
Meteorologists have gotten a lot better at forecasting the conditions that make tornadoes more likely. But predicting exactly which thunderstorms will produce a tornado and when is harder, and that’s ...
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Why forecasting where tornadoes will hit is still hard to do − even though storm predictions are improving
The vast majority of violent tornadoes form from supercells, thunderstorms with a deep rotating updraft, called a “mesocyclone.” Vertical wind shear can enable the midlevels of the storm to ...