Conceptual diagram of the influence of horizontal vortex tubes on tornado genesis and development during the intensification stage: (a) the effect of horizontal vortex tubes on tornado rotation; (b) ...
The 2025 tornado season was good to this novice storm chaser, with a half-dozen twisters in the books. What will next year bring? We’ll see. An EF-U tornado with invisible vortex churns up dust in ...
The Deer Creek Fire created a pyro-vortex east of Moab, Utah, as it burned in mid-July. Credit: Jason Kirks/BLM Around 12:40 p.m. on July 12, firefighters on the Deer Creek Fire, east of Moab, Utah, ...
Not all thunderstorms can produce tornadoes - only about 30% of supercell thunderstorms actually spawn these rotating columns of air. Supercells are severe thunderstorms with intense, rotating ...