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Unusually Devastating Tornadoes in the United States: 1995–2016
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2020 Previous research has identified a number of physical, socioeconomic, and demographic factors related to tornado casualty rates. There remain gaps in our understanding of community-level vulnerabilities to tornadoes.
T. Fricker, J. Elsner
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Population Bias on Tornado Reports in Europe
Applied Sciences, 2021 Tornadoes are associated with damages, injuries, and even fatalities in Europe. Knowing the spatial distribution of tornadoes is essential for developing disaster risk reduction strategies.
Răzvan Pîrloagă +2 more
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Design of stick-framed wood roofs under tornado wind loads
Frontiers in Built Environment, 2022 Light-frame wood construction comprises nearly 90% of the housing industry in Canada and the United States. The roofs of these houses can be constructed either entirely on site or using prefabricated trusses.
Caspar L. D. Bain +4 more
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Atmosphere, 2020 Strong tornadoes are common for the European part of Russia but happen rather rare east of the Urals. June 2017 became an exceptional month when two tornado outbreaks occurred in the Ural region of Russia, yielded $3 million damage, and resulted in 1 ...
Alexander Chernokulsky +3 more
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Occurrence of Anticyclonic Tornadoes in a Topographically Complex Region of Mexico
Advances in Meteorology, 2019 Tornadoes are violent and destructive natural phenomena that occur on a local scale in most regions around the world. Severe storms occasionally lead to the formation of mesocyclones, whose direction or sense of rotation is often determined by the ...
Noel Carbajal +4 more
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Remote Sensing, 2023 A three-microphone acoustic array (OSU1), with microphones that have a flat response from 0.1 to 200 Hz, was deployed for 6 years (2016–2022) at Oklahoma State University (OSU) in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and sampled at 1000 Hz.
Trevor C. Wilson +2 more
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Time trends in losses from major tornadoes in the United States
Weather and Climate Extremes, 2023 Damage from tornadoes imposes substantial costs on society. This study provides an analysis of time trends in the severity of losses from tornadoes in the United States for the period 1954–2018.
Jinhui Zhang +3 more
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Forecasting tropical cyclone tornadoes and impacts: Report from IWTC-X
Tropical Cyclone Research and Review, 2023 This report synthesizes global tropical cyclone (TC) tornado research and operational practices to date. Tornadoes are one of the secondary (and lesser researched) hazards contributing to the devastation TCs leave in their wake.
Dereka Carroll-Smith +8 more
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Wind Speed Estimates for Garage Door Failures in Tornadoes
Frontiers in Built Environment, 2019 Severe wind events, such as tornadoes, pose a significant threat to lives and infrastructure in many locations around the world. Residential buildings are the structures most affected by these events, since they are widespread and often not designed to ...
Aaron L. Jaffe +2 more
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Increasingly Powerful Tornadoes in the United States
Geophysical Research Letters, 2019 Storm reports show an upward trend in the power of tornadoes. Quantifying the magnitude of the increase is difficult given diurnal and seasonal influences on tornadoes embedded within natural variations and made worse by changes in practices for rating ...
J. Elsner, T. Fricker, Zoe Schroder
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