The 30th Michigan tornado of the year was confirmed Sunday after an unwarned tornado struck north of Deckerville.

Maps of patterns of tornadogenesis, or the process by which a tornado forms, show that between 1951 and 1985, tornado formation peaked in northern Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas.

Tornadogenesis: As the rotation stretches, a downward extension becomes a funnel cloud. As this spinning vortex strengthens, it could reach the ground.

Surprisingly, some experiments have shown that low-frequency infrasound, with a frequency range of 1 to 10 Hz, is produced during tornadogenesis —the birth of a tornado—and the course of its life.

As scientists, we are still very much in the early stages of learning about tornadogenesis, or tornado development. Trying to pinpoint exactly where and when a tornado will form is extremely ...

The biggest, most expensive, tech-heavy effort to understand how and why tornadoes form begins next month. Pulling together truck-mounted radar, UAVs, wind meters bolted to car roofs, webs of ...

Citations J. Houser et al. Rapid-scan mobile radar observations of tornadogenesis. American Geophysical Union fall meeting, Washington, D.C., December 14, 2018. J. Elsner. Increasingly powerful ...

Tornadogenesis: As the rotation stretches, a downward extension becomes a funnel cloud. As this spinning vortex strengthens, it could reach the ground.