Tornado Alert Supporting Research
The Science of Tornado Alert
Listening for unique electromagnetic signatures
The science of Magnetohydrodynamic Tornadoes was first theorized in the 1920s. Over the subsequent decades, research has been undertaken at many of the world’s leading universities and at NASA and NOAA, resulting in the discovery of frequencies that are emitted from tornados when formed. Remarkably, it was in space where the tweaks, chorus, whistlers, auroral kilometric radiation, and comparative measurements from Neptune, Uranus, Jupiter and Saturn, including the most powerful storm ever recorded in the entire solar system by Cassini at Saturn, were discovered.
Tornado Alert works even during electrical blackout
The most devastating effect of electrical storms, including tornadoes, is the electrical blackout that occurs in the heart of a storm, rendering traditional warning technology useless. Radio and cell signals are disrupted due to immense electromagnetic interference, and often power lines are ripped up by tornadoes, taking out the power grid, thus causing a loss of power for televisions, internet and methods of alert that depend on electricity to operate. Tornado Alert detects the electromagnetic frequencies directly and has a battery backup in the likelihood of a loss of power.
Based on over 40 years of scientific research
Based on over 40 years of scientific research, Tornado Alert is the world's first personal tornado, lightning and severe weather detector. With 95% accuracy, tornado alert will warn you faster than any weather radio or news broadcast. Existing alerting and warning technologies that rely on radio, internet, TV broadcast or SMS messages typically fail, for example, in the event of a power cut, loss of cell coverage or electrical interference -- all common side effects of electrical storms; tornado alert continues to monitor the proximity of these dangers to your exact location.
Recent Research
Tornadoes and Electrical Activity:
- On the Electromagnetic Basis of Tornadoes, CollegeTimes
- Disruptive Effects of Electromagnetic Interference on Communication and Electronic Systems, James Burrell, George Mason University
- Electrifying new way to potentially predict tornado touchdowns, American Geophysical Union Blog
- More Lightningnews from inside hurricanes and tornadoes, NASA Science News
- Cyclones, Earthquakes, Volcanoes And Other Electrical Phenomena, Sott.net/Signs of the Times
- An electric force facilitator in descending vortex tornadogenesis, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
- Role of Intracloud Lightning in Tornadogenesis, Air Force Research Laboratory
- Electrical Role for Severe Storm Tornadogenesis, OMICS International
- Discriminating Between Severe and Non-Severe Storms, Department of Meteorology, Florida State University
- Total lightning detection. Earlier warning of ground strike hazards. Increased tornado warning lead time., GOES-R Program Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Space Weather and Tornadic Electricity:
- Electrical Characteristics of Simulated Tornadoes and Dust Devils, NASA Scientific and Technical Information Program
- New satellite to warn of severe weather by watching lightning, Watts Up With That
- THEMIS mission tracks electrical tornadoes in space, UC Berkeley News
- Huge tornadoes discovered on the Sun, Phys.org, Science X network
- Electrical characteristics of simulated tornadoes, SAO/NASA ADS Physics Abstract Service, Harvard.edu
- Electric "Tornadoes" in Space Drive Disturbances Down to Earth, Earth & Space Science News
- Earth's global electric circuit, Science360 Network
- NASA's Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS), NASA
- Fermi's Gamma-ray Cosmos, NASA
- Fermi, Spotting Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes, NASA
NOAA & NASA GOES R Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM)
GLM will measure total lightning activity continuously over the Americas and adjacent ocean regions with near uniform spatial resolution of approximately 10 km. GLM will provide early predictions of intensifying storms and severe weather events. It will also provide data for long-term climate studies.
- Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) Site, NOAA/NASA
- GLM Fact Sheet, NOAA/NASA
- GLM Lighting Detection, NOAA/NASA
- GOES-R: A Weather Superhero with Lightning Vision, YouTube, LockheedMartinVideos
Warning Delays
- Characterizing the Security Implications of Third-Party Emergency Alert Systems Over Cellular Text Messaging Services, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Characterizing the Limitations of Third-Party EAS Over Cellular Text Messaging Services, Georgia Institute ofTechnology
- Delays or disruptions relating to station-to-station, over-the-airrelay are reduced by CAP, FEMA
- Resource and Performance Tradeoffs in Delay-tolerant Wireless Network, Semantic Scholar
- Review of the Emergency Alert System EB Docket No. 04-296, FCC
- Does Weather Affect Cell Phone or GPS Reception, Outsideonline.com
- Factors Affecting Wireless Signals, Pearson Education
- Impacts of Strong Solar Flares, NASA
- Does Weather Affect Internet Speed?, BandwidthPlace, Inc.
- National Weather Service addresses delay in tornado warning, Fox4 & NWS
- Lightning strokes can probe the ionosphere, Phys.org
- NWS warning came too late for Pensacola, Pensacola News Journal
NOTE: The current warning system and centralized strategy: 10%-15% of all tornado warnings have zero or negative lead times depending on the region of the country. Negative lead times are warnings issued after the tornado is already on the ground. “Warning optimally for currently unwarned or under-warned tornadoes could reduce fatalities by about 18 percent and injuries by 24 percent.” (International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters November 2006, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 351–369 Improvements in Tornado Warnings and Tornado Casualties)
{Measurements by Early Alert: 471 measured events by users from 2011-2015}
FALSE Alarms have been stable for years
- Three Out Of Every Four Tornado Warnings Are False Alarms, FiveThirtyEight
- A 5-yr Climatology of Tornado False Alarms, American Meteorological Society
- Tornado Warning Accuracy, NWS/NOAA
- Tornado Warning False Alarms: National Weather Service Upgrades to Impact-Based Warning System, Weather Underground
- False alarms and missed events: the impact and origins of perceived inaccuracy in tornado warning systems, National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine
- 'UNSURVIVABLE!' New tornado warnings aim to scare, WRAL.com
- Reduced Tornado Warning False Alarm Rate, NWS
- Combating Tornado Fatigue: A Proposal for "Tornado Alerts" and "Tornado Emergencies", The Huffington Post
Night time fatalities
- Nighttime tornadoes are worst nightmare, Northern Illinois University
- Vulnerability due to Nocturnal Tornadoes, Meteorology Program, Department of Geography, Northern Illinois University
- Night Tornadoes Are Particularly Deadly, The Weather Channel
- Mississippi Fall Severe Weather & Tornadoes, Night vs Day, NWS
- Carolina Tornadoes Worst at Night, WRAL.com
Historic Research:
- History of the U.S. Weather Service
- Bibliography of Tornado Research Current
- Bibliography of Paul Krehbiel Publications,
- Bibliography on Tornado Research, School of Engineering Duke University
- List of Publications - Bernard Vonnegut
- Could Lightning Provide Earlier Tornado Warnings?, By Stephanie Paige Ogburn and ClimateWire
Video Catalog
60 videos detailing discoveries, scientific principles, technologies and visualizations developed in the last decade that apply to the study of the participation of storms in the Global Electric Circuit and the Electrical Nature of Storms that form the basis of the tornadoAlert produced by:
- National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
- National Severe Storms Lab
- NOAA
- NASA JPL
- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- Los Alamos National Lab
- Langmuir National Lab
- Stanford VLF Group
- Duke University
- University of California Irvine
- University of Alabama Huntsville
- University of New Mexico Mining and Technology
- Lubbock Weather Field Office of the National Weather Service, West Texas Lightning Mapping Array and Texas Tech University
- MIT
- NASA Sport Lightning Mapping Array
- Lockheed Martin (contractor for GOES-R)
and many others can be found at the Youtube Channel by clicking here.
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NOTE: Special thanks to Al Tejera, Micheal Nagy, Micheal Zaccari, Sheryl Zavion, Dr. Eric Palm, Dr. Tim Murphy, several individuals at Hiden Analytics and Charles Chandler for their reviews and contributions that made these videos possible.
A special note of gratitude to Charles Chandler whose inspirational work over the past decade on the limitations of the thermodynamic theory of tornadoes and advancement of the MHD theory of tornadoes and his experience with challenging the established mainstream scientific community with an institutionalized resistance to change gave me the courage to add my contribution to the advancement of science. We share a mutual experience, if not a common understanding.
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