Comment: The coming tornado?

Tornado Warnings and Tornado Fatalities : The Case of May 22 , 2011 Tornado in Joplin , Missouri

The Coming of a Neurocentric Age? Neurosciences and the new biology of violence: a historian’s comment

The article begins with an observation regarding the increasing presence of neuroscientists in criminological, pedagogical, economic, and religious discourses. How have neuroscientists managed to enter into public and political debates that are not about medical issues such as the prevention and treatment of diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, but rather social, economic, and political i...

Symbolic Significance of Yeats's "The Second Coming"

Tornado Forecasting: A Review

Present-day operational tornado forecasting can be thought of in two parts: anticipation of tornadic potential in the storm environment, and recognition of tornadic storms once they develop. The former is a forecasting issue, while the latter is associated with warnings (or so-called nowcasting). This paper focuses on the forecasting aspect of tornadoes1, by dealing primarily with the relations...

Peak tornado activity is occurring earlier in the heart of Tornado Alley

Tornado frequency may increase as the factors that contribute to severe convection are altered by a changing climate. Attributing changes in tornado frequency to observed global climate change is complicated because observational effort has increased over time, but studies of the seasonal distribution of tornado activity may avoid sampling biases. We demonstrate that peak tornado activity has s...