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Tornado outbreak

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Multiple tornadoes spawned from the same weather system

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Dozens of supercells overNorthern Arizona that caused a tornado outbreak onOctober 6, 2010

Atornado outbreak is the occurrence of multipletornadoes spawned by the samesynoptic scale weather system.[1] The number of tornadoes required to qualify as an outbreak typically are at least six to ten, with at least two rotational locations (ifsquall line) or at least twosupercells producingmultiple tornadoes.[2][3]

The tornadoes usually occur within the same day or continue into the early morning hours of the succeeding day, and within the same region. Most definitions allow for a break in tornado activity (time elapsed from the end of the last tornado to the beginning of the next tornado) of six hours. If tornado activity indeed resumes after such a lull, many definitions consider the event to be a new outbreak. A series of continuous or nearly continuous tornado outbreak days is atornado outbreak sequence.[4] In the United States and Canada, tornado outbreaks usually occur from March through June in theGreat Plains, theMidwestern United States, and the Southeastern United States in an area colloquially referred to asTornado Alley. Tornado outbreaks can also occur during other times of the year and in other parts of the world. A secondary less active and annually inconsistent tornado "season" in the U.S. occurs in late autumn.[5]

A timeline showing three day sequences with at least four violent tornadoes and the number of deaths associated with each. (1875–2014)

Very large tornado outbreaks are known assuper outbreaks. The largest tornado outbreak on record was the2011 Super Outbreak, with 362 tornadoes and about $10 billion in direct damages.[6] It surpassed the1974 Super Outbreak, in which 148 tornadoes were counted. Both occurred within the United States and Canada. The total number of tornadoes is a problematic method of comparing outbreaks from different periods, however, as many more weaker tornadoes, but not stronger tornadoes, are reported in the US in recent decades than in previous ones due to improvements in tornado detection.[7]

Tornado outbreak sequence

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Atornado outbreak sequence, ortornado outbreak day sequence, sometimes referred to as anextended tornado outbreak, is a period of continuous or nearly continuous hightornado activity consisting of a series of tornado outbreaks over multiple days with no or very few days lacking tornado outbreaks.[4]

Major tornado outbreak sequences occurred in theUnited States in May1917, 1930, 1949,1965,1974,2003,2011, and2024.[8][9] Another exceptional outbreak sequence apparently occurred duringmid to late May 1896.[10] Although some days lacked tornado outbreaks, the period frommid to late April 2011[11] andlate May 2019[12] also were periods of especially high tornado activity.

Tornado outbreak sequences tend to dominate the tornado statistics for a year and often cause a spike in tornado numbers for the entire year. Not all periods of active tornado occurrences are outbreak sequences, there must be no break in the activity to satisfy the definition. Active periods occur ranging from every year to every several years whereas continuously active periods are less common and can be rare depending on the parameters applied to define a sequence. By the late 2010s, medium to long rangeforecasting advanced sufficiently that some periods of high tornado activity can be somewhat reliably predicted several days to several weeks in advance.[12]

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References

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  1. ^Glickman, Todd S., ed. (2000).Glossary of Meteorology (2nd ed.). American Meteorological Society.ISBN 978-1-878220-34-9. Archived fromthe original on 6 June 2011.
  2. ^Grazulis, Thomas P. (1993).Significant Tornadoes 1680-1991: A Chronology and Analysis of Events. St. Johnsbury, VT: The Tornado Project of Environmental Films.ISBN 978-1-879362-03-1.
  3. ^Galway, Joseph G. (1977)."Some Climatological Aspects of Tornado Outbreaks".Mon. Weather Rev.105 (4):477–84.Bibcode:1977MWRv..105..477G.doi:10.1175/1520-0493(1977)105<0477:SCAOTO>2.0.CO;2.
  4. ^abSchneider, Russell; H.E. Brooks; J.T. Schaefer (October 2004)."Tornado Outbreak Day Sequences: historic events and climatology (1875-2003)".22nd Conf. Severe Local Storms. Hyannis, MA: American Meteorological Society.
  5. ^Schneider, Russell; H. E. Brooks; J. T. Schaefer (2004)."Tornado Outbreak Days: an updated and expanded climatology (1875-2003)".22nd Conference on Severe Local Storms. Hyannis, MA: American Meteorological Society.
  6. ^Smith, Adam B.; Matthews, Jessica L. (July 2015)."Quantifying uncertainty and variable sensitivity within the US billion-dollar weather and climate disaster cost estimates".Natural Hazards.77 (3):1829–1851.Bibcode:2015NatHa..77.1829S.doi:10.1007/s11069-015-1678-x.ISSN 0921-030X.S2CID 129795283.
  7. ^Doswell, Charles A. III (2007)."Small Sample Size and Data Quality Issues Illustrated Using Tornado Occurrence Data".Electron. J. Sev. Storms Meteorol.2 (5):1–16.
  8. ^Hamill, Thomas M.; R.S. Schneider; H.E. Brooks; G.S. Forbes; H.B. Bluestein; M. Steinberg; D. Meléndez; R.M. Dole (2005)."The May 2003 Extended Tornado Outbreak".Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc.86 (4):531–42.Bibcode:2005BAMS...86..531H.doi:10.1175/BAMS-86-4-531.
  9. ^Hamill, T.M.; et al. (2005)."Supplement to: The May 2003 Extended Tornado Outbreak".Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc.86 (4):ES3 –ES16.Bibcode:2005BAMS...86S...3H.doi:10.1175/BAMS-86-4-HamillA.
  10. ^Grazulis, Tom; Doris Grazulis."1896 Tornadoes". The Tornado Project. Archived fromthe original on 26 February 2014. Retrieved8 May 2008.
  11. ^Fuhrmann, Christopher M.; C. E. Konrad II; M. M. Kovach; J. T. McLeod; W. G. Schmitz; P. G. Dixon (2014)."Ranking of Tornado Outbreaks across the United States and Their Climatological Characteristics"(PDF).Weather Forecast.29 (3):684–701.Bibcode:2014WtFor..29..684F.doi:10.1175/WAF-D-13-00128.1.S2CID 56010947. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 18 February 2019.
  12. ^abScientists forecasted late May tornado outbreak nearly four weeks before it ripped through U.S.

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