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Topic: Severe storms

Friday Find: Listen to these tornado safety announcements from the 1960s

May 3, 2024

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Photos of the front of the Owlie Skywarn card, showing Owlie the owl with his wings around three children with the words, "SKYWARN Tips for TORNADO SAFETY."

Friday Find: Owlie Skywarn cards

April 12, 2024

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Photos of the front of the Owlie Skywarn card, showing Owlie the owl with his wings around three children with the words, "SKYWARN Tips for TORNADO SAFETY."

NOAA'S National Severe Storms Laboratory uses mobile radars to study tornadoes, hurricanes, dust storms, winter storms, mountain rainfall, and even swarms of bats. NOXP (seen above) is a mobile Doppler radar that also has dual-polarization capabilities. This information helps enhance forecasts of precipitation amounts and can be used to improve computer predictions of thunderstorms.

In the field: What's it like to be a tornado researcher at NOAA?

January 31, 2024

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NOAA'S National Severe Storms Laboratory uses mobile radars to study tornadoes, hurricanes, dust storms, winter storms, mountain rainfall, and even swarms of bats. NOXP (seen above) is a mobile Doppler radar that also has dual-polarization capabilities. This information helps enhance forecasts of precipitation amounts and can be used to improve computer predictions of thunderstorms.

Black and white photo of a woman in a miniskirt and winter coat walking through the snow and holding her hat on her head.

Friday Find: Snowy photos of blizzards from years past

January 12, 2024

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Black and white photo of a woman in a miniskirt and winter coat walking through the snow and holding her hat on her head.

Photo of a flock of oystercatchers on Skidmore Island, part of Eastern Shore of Virginia National Wildlife Refuge. Credit: Pamela Denmon, USFWS.

NOAA and NFWF announce $144 million in grants to support coastal resilience projects

November 29, 2023

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coastal ecosystems

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law

Photo of a flock of oystercatchers on Skidmore Island, part of Eastern Shore of Virginia National Wildlife Refuge. Credit: Pamela Denmon, USFWS.

An early 20th century barocyclonometer. The dark wooden case is closed and bears a sticker with "cyclonometer" written on it.

Friday Find: The barocyclonometer, a hurricane detection relic from an age of unrest and exploration

May 12, 2023

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An early 20th century barocyclonometer. The dark wooden case is closed and bears a sticker with "cyclonometer" written on it.

Photo showing researchers preparing to launch an experimental weather balloon on April 5, 2022, near a storm in Greenville, Alabama.

Severe storm research campaign kicks off second year of data gathering

February 8, 2023

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Photo showing researchers preparing to launch an experimental weather balloon on April 5, 2022, near a storm in Greenville, Alabama.

Photo of a tornado in Sudan, Texas on May 23, 2022 taken during the NOAA and partner Targeted Observations by Radar and UAS of Supercells (TORUS) field campaign.

2022 year in review: Animations, reports detail severe weather throughout U.S.

January 31, 2023

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Photo of a tornado in Sudan, Texas on May 23, 2022 taken during the NOAA and partner Targeted Observations by Radar and UAS of Supercells (TORUS) field campaign.

Volunteers plant natural grasses safely behind a newly constructed breakwater, which is part of a living shoreline project, at Camp Wilkes in Biloxi, Mississippi. The breakwater’s role is to reduce erosion on the shoreline by decreasing the wave energy and allowing plants to grow on the shore.

NOAA, NFWF grant $25.2 million for emergency coastal resilience

June 6, 2022

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Volunteers plant natural grasses safely behind a newly constructed breakwater, which is part of a living shoreline project, at Camp Wilkes in Biloxi, Mississippi. The breakwater’s role is to reduce erosion on the shoreline by decreasing the wave energy and allowing plants to grow on the shore.

A view from NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite taken at 11:46 pm CST on December 10, 2021 of the tornado outbreak across the central and southern U.S. NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed 61 tornadoes as of December 18, with several long-track tornadoes.

The December 2021 tornado outbreak, explained

December 20, 2021

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A view from NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite taken at 11:46 pm CST on December 10, 2021 of the tornado outbreak across the central and southern U.S. NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed 61 tornadoes as of December 18, with several long-track tornadoes.

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