Tornado outbreak sequence
- Tornado outbreak sequence
A tornado outbreak sequence (or extended tornado outbreak) is a period of continuous or near continuous high tornado activity consisting of a series of tornado outbreaks over multiple days where there are very little or no days with a lack of tornadoes.[cite conference |first=Russell |last=Schneider |coauthors=H.E. Brooks, and J.T. Schaefer |title=Tornado Outbreak Day Sequences: historic events and climatology (1875-2003) |booktitle=22nd Conference on Severe Local Storms |publisher=American Meteorological Society |date=Oct 2004 |location=Hyannis, MA |url=http://ams.confex.com/ams/11aram22sls/techprogram/paper_81933.htm ] ]Major tornado outbreak sequences occurred in May 1917, 1930, 1949, and 2003[cite journal |last=Hamill |first=Thomas M. |coauthors= R.S. Schneider, H.E. Brooks, G.S. Forbes, H.B. Bluestein, M. Steinberg, D. Meléndez, and R.M. Dole |title=The May 2003 Extended Tornado Outbreak |journal=Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society |volume=86 |issue=4 |pages=531–42 |publisher=American Meteorological Society |date=Apr 2005 |url=http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1175%2FBAMS-86-4-531 |doi=10.1175/BAMS-86-4-531 ] ][cite journal |last=Hamill |first=T.M. |coauthors= et al |title=Supplement to: The May 2003 Extended Tornado Outbreak |journal=Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society |volume=86 |issue=4 |pages=ES3–ES16 |publisher=American Meteorological Society |date=Apr 2005 |url=http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1175%2FBAMS-86-4-HamillA |doi=10.1175/BAMS-86-4-HamillA ] . Another exceptional outbreak sequence apparently occurred during mid to late May 1896][cite web |last=Grazulis |first=Tom |authorlink=Thomas P. Grazulis |coauthors=Doris Grazulis |title=1896 Tornadoes |publisher=The Tornado Project |url=http://tornadoproject.com/past/pastts95.htm#1896 |accessdate=2008-05-08 ] . Tornado outbreak sequences tend to dominate the tornado statistics for a year and often cause a spike in tornado numbers for the entire year as a whole.] See also
* List of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
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