Modeling the Excitation of Seismic Waves by the Joplin Tornado [Paywalled]

[Dan Robinson]

Modeling the Excitation of Seismic Waves by the Joplin Tornado

Tornadoes generate seismic signals when they contact the ground. Here we examine the signals excited by the Joplin tornado, which passed within 2 km of a station in the Earthscope Transportable Array.

 

[Steve Miller]

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[Steve Holmes]

In the midst of the 1974 outbreak, a a caller to WHAS radio in Louisville, doing live storm coverage, asked if there had been an earthquake. After some research, she was told no..

 

[Kevin R Burgess]

I am sure most have had this thrown at you, but here it is again,

Civil engineers release study of Joplin tornado damage

It did not take much wind to flatten houses in the Joplin tornado zone because so many were poorly constructed to withstand wind, according to a study released recently by

www.joplinglobe.com

 

[Lanny Dean]

Forgive me with the late reply but I’m just now seeing this.
This is certainly not new. This has been the direction we have been moving in with the INPAR since 2012.
I might add that “seismic waves” is not correct verbiage. It is simply acoustic/infrasonic. And while the range in frequency is somewhat correct or at least in ballpark - we are not talking about an R-wave.

I coined the SSF (Supercell Signature Frequency) and the TSF (Tornado Signature Frequency) phrases back in 2013. Dr. Al Bedard (head of NOAAs Infrasonic department in Boulder) *assisted* with some of our direction, as did Tim Samaras (obviously)

But after a refusal of the peer review paper, and the heat I took from some down in Norman/CIMMs, I decided to distance from that part. Thus, my tour company funds PACRITEX and we have collected many infrasonic data sets - including the Chapman event. And most recently Randy Hicks being overtaken by the tornado in the south early this year, while obtaining a full acoustic/infrasonic data set pre, during and post tornadogenesis.

“Norman” doesn’t like change nor a meteorologist that just so happens to own/run a tour company. It seems it goes against the grain....

Kudos to these folks...good luck getting anything past the dreadful peer review process.