Tornado Alley We get asked a lot about what exactly is Tornado Alley and where is it. The term “Tornado Alley” is an area on the United States where Tornadoes occur the most. The term was first used back in 1952 as the title of a research project by U.S. Air Force Meteorologists Major…
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Our own storm chaser, Timothy Hedrick from Cutler, IL, spent the day surveying the tornado aftermath with Michael Phelps of StormScapeLive.TV and Don Murray of StormMapping.com from the Perryville, MO tornado that struck Tuesday, February 28, 2017. Timothy along with Michael Phelps takes Extreme Weather Videos inside some of the hardest hit areas. The NWS Paducah office…
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So this weekend is the 20th Annual National ChaserCon in Denver, CO. In case you missed the action you can watch it all below! We are so glad to be a sponsor of this event! ChaserCon 2017 LIVE exclusive sponsor is AllisonHouse! AllisonHouse provides high-quality weather data products for great software like Gibson Ridge, GREarth,…
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From the early morning hours of January 21, 2017 to January 23, 2017 there were 66 confirmed tornadoes across 8 states making it the second largest January tornado outbreak on record. Second to the January 1999 outbreak that spawned 129 tornadoes. Tornadoes were seen from Texas to Georgia and Florida. “A rare “high risk” severe…
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What was originally forecast to be a marginal risk for severe weather across parts of the Ohio Valley turned into a line of tornadic supercells! So many people keep asking the question, why did this happen? Why did the storms in Indiana and Ohio become such prolific tornado producing storms? The National Weather Service has…
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Over the past several days we have seen a low pressure system slowly roll across the US. Check out the images below showing the storm reports from 6/14/2016-6/16/2016. Over that 3 day period we have had 15 tornado reports, 607 wind damage reports, and 144 hail reports. As you notice Wednesday had a whopping 359…
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Today looks to be another active severe weather day including the threat for tornadoes from this afternoon into the evening for portions of eastern Oklahoma, Arkansas, northeast Texas, Missouri, eastern Kansas and Nebraska and southwest Iowa. See the Categorical outlook for today’s severe weather below. Storms are expected to initiate first this afternoon along the…
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Typically, when we think of tornadoes, the first place we think of is “tornado alley” in the Central US. But tornadoes occur all over the world too! This video is just now surfacing from what looks like mid April, and shows INCREDIBLE tornado video from the city of Amarah, in southern Iraq! Watch near the 10…
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On March 8, 2016 a tornado touched down in Texas demolishing a trailer park. On March 9, 2016, NWS completed their evaluation of the disaster area and released their findings and rated this tornado as a EF1 tornado. Also, NWS in Shreveport, Louisiana issued a state of emergency and as of Thursday, March 10,2016 there is…
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A tornado outbreak that started Tuesday continued into a second full day of destruction and tragedy yesterday as the powerful storm system shifted from the southeast into the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, killing four more people in Virginia. The storm system has spanned hundreds of miles and more than a dozen states since the first tornado…
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