Determining Severe Weather Based On Stability Indexes and Upper-Level Winds
There are several weather products used to determine the possibility of severe weather for an area. The most common and misunderstood by many weather enthusiasts is the Skew-T chart and the upper-air...
Tornado Basics, Severe Weather Preparation, & The Enhanced Fujita scale
Earth's weather can produce various kinds of windstorms which include waterspouts, dust devils and tornadoes. Although they have the common features of a column of rotating air, they are actually...
There are over fourteen million thunderstorms worldwide every year. Most thunderstorms are short-lived cells developed over land during daytime heating from the sun. Thunderstorm cells are developed...
There is certain criteria that has to be met before a thunderstorm is considered to be severe. When a severe weather warning is put out, it is typically based on information that has been detected by...
What is a tornado? A violently rotating column of air or pendant which extends from the base from a cumulonimbus cloud or underneath a cumuliform cloud, and often (but not always) visible as a...
