Posts Tagged ‘2011’

After severe thunderstorms and tornadoes damaged parts of the southern Plains over the weekend, another round of devastating tornadoes is on the way for Tuesday. AccuWeather.com Meteorologists are forecasting that there will be at least 50 tornado reports on Tuesday, many of them across the eastern half of Oklahoma and eastern Kansas.

KANSAS CITY – Tornadoes tore through parts of the U.S. Midwest on Sunday, killing at least 30 people in the Missouri town of Joplin and causing one death in Minneapolis as well as causing extensive property damage. The Joplin deaths came from a powerful tornado that plowed through the southwestern Missouri town of some 50,000 [...]

Newly formed Tropical Storm 04W may pose threats for both the northern Philippines and eventually Japan. As of Friday morning, EDT, the center of Tropical Storm 04W (which had yet to be given a name) was located approximately 200 miles east-southeast of the small island of Yap.

At least 56 people have died in northern India in the aftermath of powerful thunderstorms late Wednesday evening, local time. Times of India, citing All India Radio, described the deadly weather as “severe duststorm, accompanied by rain and thundershowers.”

State weather forecasters are now monitoring a shallow low-pressure area that they said has a chance of intensifying into a cyclone. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said the SLPA threatens to bring flash floods to parts of Mindanao Wednesday.

Drenching rain will inundate portions of the Northeast through at least Thursday, with rainfall totals mimicking that of a tropical storm; this has elevated flood fears in the region. The rain-making storm will be slow to move through Thursday. Counter-clockwise winds around the storm will pinwheel moisture from the northern Caribbean and Bahamas into it, [...]

“If tropical moisture gets drawn into the storm, there’s the potential for some serious problems.” AccuWeather.com meteorologists are concerned about the risk of flooding problems in the Northeast as a rainy weather pattern persists through the balance of the week.

Today’s date (on this side of the date line) is causing superstitious people everywhere to be extra cautious. Friday the 13th is not only a popular horror movie franchise, it is also a day infamous for its purported bad luck. While we will withhold our own superstitious beliefs, we took a look in our extensive [...]

We all have heard of a tornado, but what about the slang term “gustnado?” A gustnado is a short-lived, ground-based swirling wind that can form on the leading edge of a severe thunderstorm. Although the name comes from “gust front of a tornado,” and a gustnado almost looks like a tornado, it is not considered [...]

Parts of Tornado Alley will remain the target of potentially damaging thunderstorms, including some tornadoes, today into Thursday. Today’s severe weather threat zone lies from Lubbock and San Antonio, Texas, to Russell, Kan., to Madison, Wis., to Chicago, Ill.