r/Tornadoes

I built a local severe weather analog dashboard using hourly weather station data from Cottonwood, Alabama since Dec 2023. I tagged a confirmed EF2 tornado event and built an atmospheric comparison engine that searches historical environments for similar setups.

Still in the works though.

Disclaimer: Experimental local analog research tool — not intended for operational forecasting or life safety decisions.

56 years ago tonight, Lubbock’s history was forever altered when a killer F5 tornado struck our city around 9:30 PM. 26 neighbors lost their lives to one of the strongest tornadoes to strike our state, with more than 1,500 people being injured. The Lubbock Tornado memorial was completed back in 2021, and is an official historical marker memorializing that fateful night. This tornado remains the most recent F5 that has directly struck the downtown of a major city. This event serves as a reminder that large cities are not immune to violent tornadoes. Many Lubbock residents believed such an occurrence was not possible at the time. Unfortunately, many have fallen back to that same belief just 56 short years later. #Lubbock #Tornado #F5