Thanks to clashing air masses and a jet stream sweeping storms along between them, this spring has brought a rash of destructive tornadoes.
An EF-4 tornado carved a path of destruction through Greenfield, Iowa, on May 21, 2024. With peak winds of 185 miles per hour, the twister's rampage through the little town is visible in this image captured by the Sentinel 2 satellite on May 25. It has been quite a spring for twisters in the United States. So far this year, the
from the Storm Prediction Center has reached 1,035 tornadoes, with 872 of them occurring in April and May.One of the most destructive of this season's tornadoes spun up on Tuesday, May 21 in southwestern Iowa. It then carved a destructive 44-mile path to the northeast, ultimately rampaging through tiny Greenfield, population 2,062.
The path of destruction across Greenfield, Iowa is visible in this image, acquired on May 25, 2024, by the Operational Land Imager instrument aboard the Landsat 8 satellite. The tornado shattered homes, destroyed wind turbines and power lines, and snapped and uprooted trees. It also tragically took the lives of five people. : relatively cool air to the north and west, and a gigantic, stagnant, high-pressure dome of hot air parked over Mexico and the U.S. Gulf States.
The result: huge thunderstorms with powerful convective updrafts that propelled moist air high into the atmosphere — sometimes into the stratosphere in a phenomenon called"When this type of updraft ingests a very unstable airmass with large vertical wind shear, catastrophic tornadoes and large hail are often the result," says Kristopher Bedka, an atmospheric scientist at NASA’s Langley Research Center, quoted inPreliminary data shows that there have been four days with at least 30...
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