Weather -How to know if tornados are predicted?

Gemstone wrote:
Best tool I've seen to plan a trip, or to know when to avoid Oklahoma. As you can see, Oklahoma is still the bullseye on the map.

NOAA Weather Predictor

You can modify the data for severe weather, tornado, wind, hail, etc... it will show a US map and by pressing the "start" tab at the upper left of the map, will scroll through the calendar, showing where severe weather is probable on given dates based on historical data. You can speed up or slow down the scrolling process via the tabs just above the map.

Regards
Gemstone

Click the "All Tornado" tab and watch Florida.

Gemstone wrote:
Best tool I've seen to plan a trip, or to know when to avoid Oklahoma. As you can see, Oklahoma is still the bullseye on the map....

THIS is VERY true. There are states that at a given time of the season you are just asking to be put in harms way traveling in an RV.

When I was new at Snowbirding I left Florida at various times to head back up North. First time I had to dodge tornado's I blew it off. It took me 2 times to realize there is a definitely a SEASON and REGION for these conditions to be ripe and chances you will be affected driving thru them 100%.

I NOW know when NOT to head back thru the states of the "Bermuda Triangle of Tornado's" and Deadly Storms. I now make sure I either leave early enough to avoid them or I just stay in Florida longer.

We all seem to be especially afraid of weather that we are not familiar with. Severe thunderstorms with hail & tornados scare the you know what out of me. Hurricanes, even big ones, do not. I have lived through more hurricanes than I care to remember including a cat 3-4 that gave us hurricane force winds for over 24 hours & left us without power for well over a month.

I got minimal structural damage but major boat damage from that one. The boat got hit by a tornado inside the hurricane which tore it off its mooring.

Those monsters that roam around the middle states are to be avoided. Each time heading west in the spring we have looped down & run around hugging the Gulf to best avoid the thunderstorms.

So far so good. Only been under a Tornado watch a couple of times.

Best tool I've seen to plan a trip, or to know when to avoid Oklahoma. As you can see, Oklahoma is still the bullseye on the map.

NOAA Weather Predictor

You can modify the data for severe weather, tornado, wind, hail, etc... it will show a US map and by pressing the "start" tab at the upper left of the map, will scroll through the calendar, showing where severe weather is probable on given dates based on historical data. You can speed up or slow down the scrolling process via the tabs just above the map.

Regards
Gemstone

Weather -How to know if tornados are predicted?

I'd say anytime between spring and fall in the middle part of the country...

Mitch

I ask when I check in to a camp ground if they have a shelter and it not where is the nearest one. The other thing I do is get a red pen and outline on a map countys on all side of where Im staying and I have one of those wx radios

powderman426 wrote:

mlts22 wrote:
Both iOS and Android have apps that can use your GPS location to warn you about inclement weather. AccuWeather is one example, and HTC's SenseUI 4 also has this.

And the Red Cross has an app called Tornado. The nice feature about using a cell phone over a weather alert radio is that the phone knows exactly where you are while the radio doesn't and requires that you tune it to the proper alert frequency for the area you are in which may not be easy if your travelling. I have both and find the smart phone to be much better but it does require coverage.

X2, Red Cross app is a good one.

I've been trying the iPhone app Weather Alert. I don't have to know what county I'm in. It uses my location to determine what warnings to send. It lets me choose the distance limit for the warnings it will send me. I can also choose which dangers I want to be alerted to, and there are many different choices of those. I can choose to get only warnings, or also watches.

I haven't traveled much with it yet, but it's been prompt in alerting me to the weather. I'm the one at my office who will know if some heavy snow is coming, or hail. I'll be sitting at my desk working and I'll hear that distinct sound that tells me it's from the Weather Alert app.

If you have internet available try: trucker-weather Just find where you are on the map.

camperpaul wrote:
The Cliff Notes
It is impossible to predict tornadoes.

However it is possible to predict the conditions that are favorable to the formation of tornadoes.

Sometimes you will get very little (if any) warning.

Twice in my lifetime, I have seen conditions go from "clear blue sky" to thunderstorm with EF2 tornado and back to "clear blue sky" in about 20 minutes.
Luckily we had an underground storm shelter.

That's the way they tended to pop up in Central Florida. Pretty hairy when what you are trying to do is approach control for underpowered heavy aircraft, tankers and bombers.