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The world's most typhoon-hit nation β Haiyan, wind signals, monsoons, floods, and buhawi.
Follow the newest guides, open the worldwide damage simulator, learn from historic outbreak case files, and test your weather brain with tornado games and quizzes. Built for readers who want more than a static encyclopedia.
Jump straight to safety plans, EF scale explainers, historic tornadoes, state pages, quizzes, or simulator tools.
A practical guide to the shape on radar apps, what it means if you are near the edge, and why the warning area is a forecast corridor rather than a confirmed tornado path.
More precise pages for high-intent searches: Sydney hail, Helsinki winter roads, Stockholm snow, Riga drainage, Australian severe warnings, and Baltic coastal storms.
The world's most typhoon-hit nation β Haiyan, wind signals, monsoons, floods, and buhawi.
Jakarta floods, frequent puting beliung tornadoes, Cyclone Seroja, and the equator rule.
Sumatra squalls, world-leading lightning, flash floods, and why typhoons never hit.
Summer tornadoes (trΔ by powietrzne), the 2017 derecho, giant hail, and the great Oder floods.
Pacific typhoons, deadly eastern-plains tornadoes, monsoon floods, and Gobi sandstorms.
What if a typhoon hit Singapore? Model fatalities, displacement, and damage.
Hail, flash flooding, damaging wind, lightning, and coastal rain.
Coastal wind, snow, freezing rain, road weather, and visibility.
Baltic wind, snow timing, commuting, rail, ferries, and ice.
Urban flooding, Daugava influence, wind, winter ice, and warnings.
How to read wind, hail, rain, flash flood, and radar signals.
Wind setup, water levels, ports, ferries, waves, and winter ice.
Focused pages for high-intent searches around storm seasons, warning colors, radar, winter travel, fire weather, flash flooding, coastal storms, and European severe-weather reporting.
Rain, damaging wind, surf, flooding, and coastal erosion.
Green, yellow, orange, red, hazard types, and update timing.
How to use SMHI radar, satellite, observations, and warnings together.
warnings.meteo.lv, Meteoalarm, wind, rain, snow, ice, and storms.
Official warning sources, seasonal hazard calendars, severe thunderstorm context, tornado reality checks, and practical planning links for readers outside the United States.
Cyclones, floods, heat, fire weather, severe thunderstorms, and tornado context.
FMI warning colors, winter roads, thunderstorm gusts, Baltic marine weather, heat, and cold.
SMHI warnings, radar, satellite, windstorms, snow, flooding, forest fire weather, and coasts.
Baltic windstorms, warnings, floods, winter weather, thunderstorms, and European severe-storm reports.
Place a tornado anywhere on the map β from Oklahoma City to Dhaka to Buenos Aires β and see modeled fatalities, structural damage, and economic loss based on real census data, regional construction profiles, and validated meteorological research.
Powered by US Census ACS 2022, Statistics Canada 2021, UN World Population Prospects 2023, and regional construction profiles. Results shown in local currency for 49 countries.
Calculators built on 30 years of NOAA data, and games that teach you to read the sky like a spotter.
Live SPC convective outlooks β today's tornado, wind, and hail risk across the US, updated through the day, plus Nadocast and Canadian outlooks.
Your actual odds of death, injury, or property damage β this year, this decade, and over a lifetime β based on your state, home type, and shelter access.
Heat index, wind chill, UV index and sunburn time, humidity, dew point, snow day odds, and more β every free tool in one place, built on real formulas.
A live countdown to peak severe-weather season for your region β the Plains, Dixie Alley, the Midwest, the Gulf Coast, or Canada.
Guess the famous tornado from its damage path. Each wrong guess reveals a new hint β country, rating, region, then year. New puzzle daily.
Wedge, rope, cone, stovepipe, waterspout? Look at the tornado and name its type. Ten rounds, build your streak, share your score.
Read a real damage description, guess the rating from EF0 to EF5. Learn how NWS surveyors actually assign tornado ratings.
Wedge, cone, rope, stovepipe, elephant trunk, or multi-vortex? Identify silhouettes the way chasers call them on a livestream.
Every US state, Canadian province, and major city β local events, risk levels, and preparedness. Find where you live.
The daily tornado Wordle. Guess the town, term, or outbreak in six tries β new puzzle every midnight Eastern.
Twenty-plus themed quizzes β storm clouds, rare clouds, hurricanes, records, forecasting β with instant scoring and shareable results.
What kind of storm, tornado, hurricane, or cloud are you? A collection of fun, shareable personality quizzes with instant results.
Deep dives on the tornadoes that shaped meteorology, warning systems, and building codes β plus every EF5 ever recorded and the outbreaks that redefined "worst-case scenario."
695 killed across Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana. A 219-mile continuous path β a record that has stood for a century.
The deadliest single tornado since 1947. 158 killed in a city that had a warning. What went wrong and what changed after.
2.6 miles wide β the widest tornado ever recorded. It killed pioneering storm chaser Tim Samaras and reshaped chase safety norms.
A December EF4 that killed 57 in a single county and forced a national reckoning with winter tornado risk.
A complete catalog of the 59 F5/EF5 tornadoes documented since 1950, with paths, casualty counts, and the meteorology behind each.
Daulatpur-Saturia killed approximately 1,300 people β more than any tornado in recorded history. Why developing nations bear the disproportionate cost.
From classroom projects to university-level meteorology explainers β organized by depth and audience.
Age-appropriate facts, science experiments (make a tornado in a bottle), and educational activities.
7 articles βHow tornadoes actually form β from CAPE and wind shear to mesocyclones, wall clouds, and hook echoes.
15 articles βCareer paths, equipment, ethics, safety, and the famous chasers whose work shaped modern meteorology.
8 articles βTornado Alley, Dixie Alley, and the eastward shift meteorologists are documenting. Plus climate change context.
12 articles βWhere you are when a tornado warning is issued determines what you should do. We've built specific guides for every location β home, mobile home, apartment, car, school, workplace, hospital, and more.
Read the main safety guideWhether you live in Oklahoma (65 tornadoes a year on average) or Vermont (barely one), we've written a dedicated history β with the events that shaped your state.