Surprisingly, some experiments have shown that low-frequency infrasound, with a frequency range of 1 to 10 Hz, is produced during tornadogenesis—the birth of a tornado—and the course of its life.

Decoding tornadoes' infrasound waves Listening to tornado infrasound could revolutionize how meteorologists forecast tornadoes Date: May 8, 2018 Source: Acoustical Society of America Summary ...

MOLINE, Ill. — Tornadoes can cause explosions of their own, from power transformers to hitting volatile chemical storage facilities. But what about attempting to blow up a tornado itself in ...

Now Houser, of Ohio University in Athens, and her colleagues have new data that upend this “top-down” idea of tornadogenesis. The supercell thunderstorms that can spawn tornadoes form where a ...

The American Meteorological Society continuously publishes research on climate, weather, and water in its 12 journals. Many of these articles are available for early online access–they are peer ...

The stages of tornado formation, from Fischer et al. (2024), “Supercell Tornadogenesis: Recent Progress in our State of Understanding,” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

FREE DOWNLOAD: Get breaking news alerts in the FOX LOCAL Mobile app for iOS or Android Local perspective Below is footage of what is called tornadogenesis – which is the formation or life cycle ...