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Changes in tornado risk and societal vulnerability leading to greater tornado impact potential
Tornado risk, as determined by the occurrence of atmospheric conditions that support tornado incidence, has exhibited robust spatial trends in the...
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The regionality and seasonality of tornado trends in the United States
Continued efforts to build human resilience to the impacts of tornadoes require updated knowledge of tornado occurrences as well as how their...
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Multi-timescale exploration of teleconnection/tornado activity relationships in the Southeastern United States
Teleconnections like the El Niño/Southern Oscillation affect climate and weather conditions across the globe, including conditions that modulate...
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An unusually prolonged Pacific-North American pattern promoted the 2021 winter Quad-State Tornado Outbreaks
This study examines the large-scale atmosphere-ocean environments that led to the winter tornado outbreak across the Ohio Valley on 10–11 December...
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Quantifying the role of insurance in tornado-impacted community recovery: a survey and simulation-based approach
Insurance against disasters plays a critical role in community recovery by providing policyholders with reliable and timely payments for repairing or...
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Using Extreme Value Theory to Assess the Mortality Risk of Tornado Outbreaks
The majority of tornado fatalities occur during severe thunderstorm occurrences that produce a large number of tornadoes, termed tornado outbreaks....
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Detection of Tornado damage in forested regions via convolutional neural networks and uncrewed aerial system photogrammetry
Disaster damage assessments are a critical component to response and recovery operations. In recent years, the field of remote sensing has seen...
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A GIS-based approach for tornado risk assessment in Mexico
Tornadoes are considered the most extreme manifestation of severe weather, and they are classified as a potentially disastrous phenomenon. In Mexico,...
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Outbreak of a Tornado with Tropical Cyclone Yaas (2021) Formed over the Bay of Bengal
A tornado outbreak occurred in West Bengal (WB), India, about 15–16 h before the landfall of Cyclone Yaas formed in May 2021 over the Bay of Bengal....
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Madden-Julian oscillation influences United States springtime tornado and hail frequency
The Madden–Julian Oscillation (MJO) is the dominant mode of intraseasonal variability in the tropics and has a documented influence on extratropical...
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Monte Carlo modeling of tornado hazard to wind turbines in Germany
Using a Monte Carlo hazard modeling approach, this study assesses the damage and losses to wind turbines caused by tornadoes over Germany. The model...
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A place-based analysis of tornado activity and casualties in Shreveport, Louisiana
Tornadoes are among the most violent hazards in the world capable of producing mass casualties. Much of what is known about the relationship between...
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An environmental and polarimetric study of the 19 November 2015 supercell and multiple-vortex tornado in Marechal Cândido Rondon, southern Brazil
In the mid-afternoon of 19 November 2015, a large multiple-vortex tornado struck the city of Marechal Cândido Rondon (MCR) situated in southern...
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Visualizing the May 22, 2011, Joplin, Missouri, Tornado path using building permits
On May 22, 2011, an EF-5 tornado spanning three-quarters of a mile in width and tracking through nearly the entire west–east extent of Joplin,...
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Lightning forcing of tornado
It is mathematically noted that the waveform perturbations that caused the electric field due to the lightning burst during intracloud (IC) or cloud...
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Regional SST and pressure conditions related to tornado “outbreak” environments 15 days later
Global climate features are known to influence tornado frequency and convective environments in the USA. However, current research does not quantify...
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A Two-Story Tornado in a Lab
Looking for a flow pattern optimal for the growth of a culture in vortex bioreactors, we found a curious structure, which mimics strong vortices...
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Space-Time Clustering with the Space-Time Permutation Model in SaTScan™ Applied to Building Permit Data Following the 2011 Joplin, Missouri Tornado
Community recovery from a major natural hazard-related disaster can be a long process, and rebuilding likely does not occur uniformly across space...
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Tornado-resisting design speeds of nuclear power plants in China
More and more nuclear power plants are being constructed in China, while the nationwide intensity regions with tornado-resisting design speeds are...
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Exploring the overlap: comparing STORGIS and ONETOR data between 1950 and 1989
The current understanding of tornado climatology centers on the Storm Prediction Center’s tornado database (ONETOR) which dates back to 1950. To...
