Gulf of Alaska sea surface temperatures – Here Gulf of Mexico sea surface temperatures – Here ENSO sea surface temperatures – Here Texas and Oklahoma panhandle tornado data – Here Texas and Oklahoma panhandle historical tornado data – Here Other Texas and Oklahoma panhandle tornado data courtesy the National Weather Service in Amarillo, Texas and Alan Scruggs Texas and Oklahoma… Read more →
I’ve completed my study of the last 20 or so years of tornadoes across the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. I’ve made a few interesting discoveries.
You can read about those discoveries here.
While more research needs to be completed, I’m hoping this is a good start to understanding the relationships between multiple different variables and the crazy high plains weather.
The landscape of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles isn’t considered dynamic, but the atmosphere above it can be. Each spring forecasters attempt to predict the chances for severe weather and try to determine where that severe weather will strike. Often times forecasters look at multiple variables on a day-to-day basis to forecast severe weather for the public. Seasonally, most forecasters… Read more →
Using the database of information offered by the National Weather Service (NWS) in Amarillo, Texas, the number of tornado reports and tornado days was established. From there, the number of “Spring” tornadoes was established removing all tornadoes before February 1 and after July 1. The previous fall and winter precipitation was also obtained from the NWS office in Amarillo. The… Read more →
There was a correlation between the weighted totals of the standard deviations from the mean of the anomalies of GoA SST, GoM SST, Previous Precipitation, ENSO SST when compared against the total number of tornadoes and the number of tornado days for that year for the data from 1996 to 2014. Sixty-three percent of the time when the weighted total… Read more →
