George Tincher
EF5
Does such an animal exist? I know a number of years ago I could look up events on Storm Data, but it was not what I considered ideal for my purposes since every tornado event was listed by segments, and thus a single tornado that tracked through multiple counties would be listed multiple times. So yeah, it was rather confusing.
I've gotten into the habit of saving as much information as I can during active severe weather days. This includes convective outlooks, watch information, mesoscale discussions, surface and upper air weather maps, etc. I know much of that stuff is now archived on SPC's site for about 5-7 years or whatever, but someday these old products may be hard to come by and I like having them on hand to reference.
However, if I could locate a quality, reliable database that lists all known tornadoes in a given year (by entire path, not broken into multiple segments every time it crosses the line on some map), it would really add lots of extra quality to each of the storm day files I end up saving. I know such a database of official records must exist somewhere, because it seems the SPC and the media always has a running count of where we stand at any given time. That said, I understand any such database available online would likely only contain records up to the end of the previous year, and that is fine. There's just got to be a better way than scouring public information statements and reading LSRs following severe weather events. Not only is that time consuming, but I'm sure I'm missing lots of tornadoes that go into the official count that don't get a written survey (i.e. those that don't do any damage).
I've gotten into the habit of saving as much information as I can during active severe weather days. This includes convective outlooks, watch information, mesoscale discussions, surface and upper air weather maps, etc. I know much of that stuff is now archived on SPC's site for about 5-7 years or whatever, but someday these old products may be hard to come by and I like having them on hand to reference.
However, if I could locate a quality, reliable database that lists all known tornadoes in a given year (by entire path, not broken into multiple segments every time it crosses the line on some map), it would really add lots of extra quality to each of the storm day files I end up saving. I know such a database of official records must exist somewhere, because it seems the SPC and the media always has a running count of where we stand at any given time. That said, I understand any such database available online would likely only contain records up to the end of the previous year, and that is fine. There's just got to be a better way than scouring public information statements and reading LSRs following severe weather events. Not only is that time consuming, but I'm sure I'm missing lots of tornadoes that go into the official count that don't get a written survey (i.e. those that don't do any damage).
