Tornado profiles

Notable tornadoes, documented in depth: the setup, the track, the damage survey, the science and the aftermath. Each profile links into the Level II radar archive at the exact moments it describes, so every claim about what the radar showed can be replayed.

A tornado's public record is scattered: the National Weather Service survey in one place, the Storm Prediction Center's forecast in another, the research measurements in a conference talk, the human account across a hundred news articles. These profiles gather it, cite it, and pair it with the one thing this site can add that nothing else can: the full-resolution radar record, scan by scan, in your browser.

Profiles

More profiles are in preparation. To retrieve the radar for any storm not yet profiled, search the archive by date and time.