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The March 2021 outbreak of tornadoes damaged this home in Sawyerville, Alabama. NOAA and its cooperative institute at the University of Oklahoma are using uncrewed systems and other tools to improve tornado damage assessments and better understand tornado wind impacts.

Experts to preview major study on tornadoes in southeast United States

February 22, 2022

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The March 2021 outbreak of tornadoes damaged this home in Sawyerville, Alabama. NOAA and its cooperative institute at the University of Oklahoma are using uncrewed systems and other tools to improve tornado damage assessments and better understand tornado wind impacts.

A view from NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite taken at 11:46 pm CST on December 10, 2021 of the tornado outbreak across the central and southern U.S. NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed 61 tornadoes as of December 18, with several long-track tornadoes.

The December 2021 tornado outbreak, explained

December 20, 2021

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A view from NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite taken at 11:46 pm CST on December 10, 2021 of the tornado outbreak across the central and southern U.S. NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) confirmed 61 tornadoes as of December 18, with several long-track tornadoes.

NOAA researchers used uncrewed aircraft to capture aerial images and video of damage following two tornado outbreaks in Alabama and Mississippi in March 2021. Researchers hope this new approach to damage assessment can improve our understanding of tornadoes and lead to better forecasts.

NOAA scientists use drones to see tornado damage in remote areas

April 20, 2021

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NOAA researchers used uncrewed aircraft to capture aerial images and video of damage following two tornado outbreaks in Alabama and Mississippi in March 2021. Researchers hope this new approach to damage assessment can improve our understanding of tornadoes and lead to better forecasts.

This April 12, 2020, NOAA National Weather Service image shows the weather outlook, including reported numbers of tornadoes, for the U.S. Southeast states.

For NOAA forecasters, a tornado-wracked April required extra grit, vigilance

May 1, 2020

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This April 12, 2020, NOAA National Weather Service image shows the weather outlook, including reported numbers of tornadoes, for the U.S. Southeast states.

Tornado damage.

How a 2011 tornado outbreak changed the direction of Weather Ready Nation

April 27, 2020

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Tornado damage.

NOAA's 50th Anniversary video

Video: 50 Years of Science, Service, and Stewardship

January 13, 2020

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NOAA 50th Anniversary

NOAA's 50th Anniversary video

NOAA and Cooperative Institute researchers pose with some of the instruments they will use to gather data in and near thunderstorms during TORUS on May 14, 2019 in Salina, Kansas.

From air, land and atmosphere: Massive project probes inner lives of supercells

May 17, 2019

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NOAA and Cooperative Institute researchers pose with some of the instruments they will use to gather data in and near thunderstorms during TORUS on May 14, 2019 in Salina, Kansas.

A tornado churns up a field outside Washburn, Illinois on February 28, 2017.

Do you know how to stay safe during a tornado?

February 28, 2019

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A tornado churns up a field outside Washburn, Illinois on February 28, 2017.

The last EF5 tornado in the United States struck neighborhoods like this one in Moore, Oklahoma, on May 20, 2013

The U.S. is having an incredibly quiet tornado season – so far

June 1, 2018

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The last EF5 tornado in the United States struck neighborhoods like this one in Moore, Oklahoma, on May 20, 2013

One of NOAA's Hurricane Hunter P-3 Orion airplanes arrives in Monroe, Louisiana, for VORTEX-SE media day in March 2018.

Video: Hurricane Hunter in search of a different kind of storm

April 17, 2018

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One of NOAA's Hurricane Hunter P-3 Orion airplanes arrives in Monroe, Louisiana, for VORTEX-SE media day in March 2018.

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