Devastating Tornado Outbreak Across the South

On Friday afternoon, Contributor Evan Hatter previewed what was likely to be a pretty substantial severe weather outbreak across the southern US over the weekend. Models had been hinting at it for several days by that point, and they were honing in on a multi-day, multi-round severe weather episode across much of the south, extending […]

50 Years Since Palm Sunday Outbreak

This past weekend marked the 50th anniversary of the Palm Sunday Outbreak – one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks in history. This outbreak took place April 11-12, 1965, and dropped 47 tornadoes that killed more than 270 people in the Midwest. The Palm Sunday Outbreak was a “classic setup”, meaning that forecasters knew far in […]