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Harold Brooks wrote:
In article , "TQ" ToweringQs AT
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"H. E. Taylor" wrote in message
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Greetings,
When does the tornado season in the States usually begin?
curious
-het


From http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/#Climatology...

"What is tornado season? Tornado season usually means the peak period for
historical tornado reports in an area, when averaged over the history of
reports. There is a general northward shift in "tornado season" in the U.S.
from late winter through mid summer. The peak period for tornadoes in the
southern plains, for example, is during May into early June. On the Gulf
coast, it is earlier during the spring; in the northern plains and upper
Midwest, it is June or July. Remember: tornadoes can happen any time of year
if the conditions are right! If you want to know the tornado peak periods
for your area, Harold Brooks of NSSL has prepared numerous tornado
probability graphics, which include distribution during the year."

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/hazard/hazardmap.html

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/hazgraph3.pl


The fundamental problem is in defining "start" of the season at any
location. Defining the midpoint is easy, but start is a more nebulous
concept. There aren't any artificial dates, such as the 1 June for the
hurricane season, and the areas of threat move around during the year.

Harold
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Harold Brooks
Head, Mesoscale Applications Group
NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory

I feel it's best to be a litle rude to experts than for me to allow
them to get away with murder:

Why in the world are you replying to my post to put this in?


Consider what happened on this occasion. It isn't much but as far as I
am aware it is the only or nearest thing to a forewarning about the
BandaAtjeh business that I can find on the internet.

What you quote yourself as writing below isn't remotely close to a
"forewarning" for the tsunami.


Perhaps someone else can do better. If so why not tell me about it?

"Michael Mcneil" wrote in message

news:5ffe245abec2c9ca6a42dc5fe04cf5d4.45219@mygate .mailgate.org

According to the BBC, the weather in the UK should be of the
"interesting" variety on Thursday. Some uncertainty has been
commensurate with the build up in magnitudes shown on the neic site.

Again according to the Beeb the next one to look out for is on
Sunday(ish.)

They seem to be, if a little hesitant, more accurate than not. The next
lunar phase is tomorrow (Saturday the 18th.) It is substantially the
same as the last phase, although I haven't got a longitude. (I thought
I
had more time to look. (Naughty me!))

So, a break in the weather seems to have brought disaster and this next
phase is probably going to be a similar spell which will run through to
boxing day or thereabouts. But we always have a storm around Xmass
time.

I wonder what ship is going to go aground this time.

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At the time I was thinking more in terms of the annual event in the
waters around Britain at Crismas time, a ship going aground in the
soltice storms. As it happened the grounding took place off
Scandinavia. But I canfes that the storms moved to the Equinoctial O/A
rom that year.



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Harold Brooks
Head, Mesoscale Applications Group
NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory