Breaking News: How Hurricane Beryl set US tornado records: The story behind the forecast…
WAVE) LOUISVILLE, KY Being the first-ever category four and five hurricane in the history of the Atlantic Basin, Hurricane Beryl broke records. Hurricane Emily from 2005 was the only other category five hurricane to occur in July. This one is only the second.
That was prior to it reaching American soil. Beryl started shattering more records as soon as it came onshore on Texas’ Gulf Coast.
Tornadoes can form inside a tropical cyclone or its remnant low due to the warm, humid tropical air and severe wind shear that exist close to the surface of the earth.
Between 1995 and 2023, there will be an average of 65 tornadoes in the United States that are caused by tropical cyclones.
Hurricane Beryl’s remnants unleashed more tornadoes across the continental United States than any other tropical cyclone in the last 19 years. Between July 8th and 10th, Beryl caused at least 65 tornadoes, according to the National Weather Service, throughout Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, and New York. Hurricane Rita in September 2005 produced 97 tornadoes, making it the last hurricane to have a tornado total almost this high.
The majority of Beryl’s tornadoes are EF-0 or EF-1 (94% of tropical tornadoes are in these categories, including ones that do no damage); 40% of tropical cyclone-related tornadoes occur when the storm is a tropical depression or remnant low; tropical storms produce 33%, and hurricanes the remaining 27%. The majority of Beryl’s tornadoes were in Louisiana, where there were 43 touchdowns. The NWS office in Shreveport stated that this was their highest single-day tornado count since 1995.
Data obtained by the NWS Storm Prediction Center’s Roger Edwards indicated that most tropical tornadoes occur on the right front quadrant of a storm (in regard to the storm’s movement). This portion of a hurricane is typically the most destructive in the northern hemisphere of the planet. Stronger wind gusts and storm surge are more likely to occur in this section of the storm due to the hurricane’s forward motion and sustained winds.
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