Science news articles about 'Alabama tornados'

Vast, violent tornadoes obliterated whole blocks in Alabama Wednesday during possibly one of the most devastating U.S. tornado outbreaks.

NASA has released a unique satellite image tracing the damage of a monster EF-4 tornado that tore through Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on April 27th.

Using conventional and not-so-conventional ideas, a professor and his students seek groundbreaking clues on how big twisters live and die.The Mobile Meteorological Measurement Vehicle — a worn- ...

The Mobile Meteorological Measurement Vehicle - a worn-looking '90s-model Dodge Intrepid with classic rock on the radio, a tower of weather gauges attached to its roof and a laptop computer bolted to ...

... Tennessee in May 2010, and a historic outbreak of tornadoes centered on Alabama in April 2011. Both events ... in San Francisco. Studies of the Tennessee floods, the Alabama tornados, and an odd October storm in Wisconsin ...

... and terrain," said Sarkar. Sarkar said the researchers have found, for example, that when a tornado blows over rough terrain -- forests or densely ... Alabama countryside he explored on foot. Then he ran Iowa State's Tornado ...