Tornado Archive

v2.3.1 is live, which includes the 2024 US data and the Philippines data! This also includes the globe view and bug fixes for European environment data and missing wind barbs for all environment data on some machines.

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01.06.2025 00:37 — 👍 17    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 3

We've also been working on redoing the environment data, including our own CAPE calculations and laying the foundation for the addition of point-and-click soundings in a future version. We were hoping to release this with the 2024 data, but it's turned into a much bigger project than we anticipated.

25.05.2025 15:12 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

From a forthcoming release: all documented tornadoes plotted on a globe with the eastern North America, parts of south America, western Africa, and Europe visible.

From a forthcoming release: tornadoes the across the US on 6 May 2024 with 500 mb heights, winds, and wind speed at 02Z 7 May.

You may have noticed some curvature in the map on the above image. We've switched to plotting everything on a globe instead of a flat map, which has the advantage of reducing distortion near the poles, in addition to looking pretty cool. This will be released with the 2024 data.

25.05.2025 15:12 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

From a forthcoming release: tornadoes in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri on 26 April 2024 along with ERA5 2 m dewpoint, 10 m winds, and MSLP at 20Z 26 April.

2024 was a very busy year for tornadoes in the US, so it's taken a while to get all the data processed. We're in the final stages of this task, and the 2024 US data will hopefully be released soon. We're also working on getting updated European data from ESWD, hopefully this summer.

25.05.2025 15:12 — 👍 26    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 2

In our next database release we will have a data void over the Philippines filled with the Severe Weather Archive of the Philippines (SWAP) dataset. We are thankful of Generich Capuli for donating and maintaining the data! You may view the SWAP project on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

21.12.2024 21:24 — 👍 17    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

As a first non-introductory post, we'd like to refer you to our BAMS paper that was recently published this summer that describes the features of our tornado database: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

22.11.2024 02:07 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Tornado Archive - The Ultimate Tornado Data Viewer! A comprehensive tornado visualization database!

Hello from the Tornado Archive team, Bluesky! Tornado Archive is a website dedicated to worldwide tornado history, climatology, and data visualization. Check out our data viewer!

22.11.2024 00:58 — 👍 42    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 2