![]() ![]() ![]() “In nature, it’s not uncommon for storms to have what we understand to be all the right ingredients for tornadogenesis and then nothing happens,” Orf says in the press release. Why some supercell storms spawn tornadoes and others don’t is the type of question the researchers are hoping the new detailed simulation will help answer. ![]() The simulation shows how these conditions combined to create a super cell, which eventually spawned El Reno, a process called “tornadogenesis” or the creation of a twister.Įven if conditions are ripe for a tornado, that doesn’t necessarily mean one is going to form. Using the Blue Waters Supercomputer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Orf and his team loaded observed data into the machine, including temperature, wind speed, air pressure, moisture, wind shear and other factors. George Dvorsky at Gizmodo reports that the team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison atmospheric scientist Leigh Orf, created a model of the category 5 "El Reno" tornado that cut a 63-mile swath through Oklahoma in May 24, 2011, staying on the ground for two hours and killing nine people. According to a press release, researchers using a supercomputer have created the most detailed simulations of the inner workings of tornados so far. Now, researchers have created a similar simulation of the internal workings of tornado, without Hollywood magic or at risk of life and limb. In the climax of the classic 1996 disaster movie Twister, scientists are able to map a tornado by deploying a bunch of sensors into a storm, but not before nearly being sucked up by an F5 tornado.
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