VISUALIZATION OF TORNADO

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

Visualization of a simulated long-track EF5 tornado embedded within a supercell thunderstorm

Tornadoes are one of nature’s most destructive forces, creating winds that can exceed 300 miles per hour. The sheer destructive power of the strongest class of tornado (EF5) makes these tornadoes the subject of active research. However, very little is currently known about why some supercells produce long-track (a long damage path) EF5 tornadoes, while other storms in similar environments produ...

Oscillations of a Giant Solar Tornado

Solar magnetic tornadoes are known to be one of the mass and energy transport mechanisms from the lower solar atmosphere into the upper layers of the solar corona. A bright spiral structure with two arms is observed using high-cadence EUV images of 171, 193 and 304 Ǻ channels of Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) on 10th of July 2011 for three hours. ...

Visualization of flow structures around a gable-roofed building model in tornado-like winds

Tornadoes are violently rotating columns of air extending from thunder storms to the ground. While extensive studies have been conducted to assess wind loads and flow structures around building models in strong winds, most of the previous investigations were conducted with straight-line winds. Bienkiewicz and Dudhia (1993) found that the wind loads acting on building models in tornado-like wind...

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...