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Topic: Severe weather

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."

A black and white photo of a tornado with multiple vortices, one in the center, which reaches to the ground and a smaller one on either side which do not reach the ground.

Here's one of the first photos of a tornado ever

April 8, 2024

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Heritage stories

A black and white photo of a tornado with multiple vortices, one in the center, which reaches to the ground and a smaller one on either side which do not reach the ground.

Photo collage of women who are making critical contributions to NOAA’s work in severe weather research.

#WomenOfNOAA advance severe weather research

March 18, 2024

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Women's HIstory Month

Photo collage of women who are making critical contributions to NOAA’s work in severe weather research.

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.

In this aerial view, cars navigate through flooded streets after record rains fell in the area on April 13, 2023, in Hollywood, Florida. In Fort Lauderdale, this 1,000-year rain event smashed the previous one-day record of 14.59 inches of rainfall set on April 25,1979.

U.S. dominated by remarkable warmth so far in 2023

May 8, 2023

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Billion-Dollar Disasters

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In this aerial view, cars navigate through flooded streets after record rains fell in the area on April 13, 2023, in Hollywood, Florida. In Fort Lauderdale, this 1,000-year rain event smashed the previous one-day record of 14.59 inches of rainfall set on April 25,1979.

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 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.

Photo of flood damage at Mud Canyon Road in Death Valley National Park, California, from August 2022. On August 5, 2022, the park received 1.70 inches of rain — an all-time 24-hour rainfall record for the area.

U.S. sweltered through third-hottest summer on record

September 9, 2022

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Photo of flood damage at Mud Canyon Road in Death Valley National Park, California, from August 2022. On August 5, 2022, the park received 1.70 inches of rain — an all-time 24-hour rainfall record for the area.

Storm damage in Berlin Township, Ohio, from a derecho that moved through the region on June 13, 2022. This derecho is one of nine billion-dollar disasters to strike the U.S. so far in 2022.

June 2022: U.S. dominated by remarkable heat, dryness

July 11, 2022

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Billion-Dollar Disasters

monthly climate report

Storm damage in Berlin Township, Ohio, from a derecho that moved through the region on June 13, 2022. This derecho is one of nine billion-dollar disasters to strike the U.S. so far in 2022.

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