TORNADO IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS

Southern Illinois Income and Employment

This report briefly describes income, employment (with specific attention to the mining and manufacturing sectors), and commuting patterns in Southern Illinois. The Southern Illinois region includes the southernmost 20 counties in Illinois: Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Massac, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Randolph, Saline, Union, Wabash, Wayne,...

Characterization of an Acid Mine Drainage Site in Southern Illinois

Two seams at the Tab-Simco abandoned underground coal mine site in southern Illinois were mined intermittently from the 1890’s until 1955, and later surface mined. The stripping operations resulted in several break-ins into the old underground works which were later buried by mine spoil. The resulting mine pool in the lower of the two seams has been producing an average of ~150 m per day of aci...

Spatial video street-scale damage assessment of the Washington, Illinois Tornado of 2013

This paper advances a growing body of mobile mapping work which captures building scale tornado damage in order to reveal vulnerabilities, or protections, within an otherwise apparently homogenous damage path. The hope is to find how micro geography, or built environment structure patterning might lead to policy advances with regards to rebuilding of critical infrastructure in tornado prone are...

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

Influence of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation on tornado and hail frequency in the United States

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is characterized by changes in sea surface temperature (SST) and atmospheric convection in the tropical Pacific, and modulates global weather and climate1–4. The phase of ENSO influences United States (US) temperature and precipitation and has long been hypothesized to influence severe thunderstorm occurrence over the US5–11. However, limitations12 of the...