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Links
The Tornado Project
www.tornadoproject.com
A site for meteorologists, public safety officials, and weather enthusiasts alike, the Tornado Project online houses safety information, a clickable world map featuring regional tornado data, and eyewitness accounts from stormchasers and tornado survivors.
National Severe Storms Laboratory
www.nssl.noaa.gov
Scientists at the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) focus on improving weather prediction and warnings with radar, satellites, and computer monitoring. The site contains information about forecasting thunderstorms, hail, lightning, flooding, winter weather, windstorms, and tornadoes. Educators will also find a teachers' guide.
Tornado and Storm Research Organisation
www.torro.org.uk
The Tornado and Storm Research Organization (TORRO) is a privately funded research group working to collect data on tornadoes in Europe. Visitors will find facts about severe weather in Europe, such as the 50 most severe hailstorms in Britain since 1650 and the earliest recorded tornado.
Stormtrack
www.stormtrack.org/index.php
This community forum for stormchasers features discussions on storms, weather, and chasing as well as forecasts and chase reports. Also included are an online library, details on chase equipment and pit stops, FAQs on everything from safety to ethics, and more.
Tornado and Tornado Chasers
www.tornadochaser.com
This site for weather enthusiasts provides up-to-the-minute information about extreme weather warnings in the United States. Would-be stormchasers will find do's and don'ts, residents of Tornado Alley will find preparedness checklists and resources, and history buffs will find an impressive library of photos of tornadoes and their aftermath.
Tornado Chase Day
www.chaseday.com
A virtual field guide to severe weather, this hobbyist's site contains a wealth of images. Learn how fluffy cumulus clouds can evolve into a tornado with a storm tutorial supported by diagrams and satellite images.
Stormchase.us
www.stormchase.us
Another stormchasing site, Stormchase.us provides links to real-time satellite and radar imagery from NASA and NOAA, computer models, and research papers.
Books
The Tornado: Nature's Ultimate Windstorm
by Thomas P. Grazulis. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.
Tornado Alley: Monster Storms of the Great Plains
by Howard Bluestein. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Eye of the Storm: Inside the World's Deadliest Hurricanes, Tornadoes and Blizzards
by Jeffrey Rosenfeld. New York: Perseus Publishing, 1999.
A Field Guide to the Atmosphere
by John A. Day and Vincent J. Schaeffer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
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NOVA scienceNOW: Hurricanes
Predicting a hurricane's intensity is notoriously difficult, but new tools may make it easier.
Tracking El Niño
Scientists struggle to understand the El Niño phenomenon, second only to the seasons in its effect on global weather.
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