{"id":85925,"date":"2018-12-17T12:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/new-research-shows-that-tornadoes-dont-form-the-way-everyone-thought"},"modified":"2018-12-28T17:30:35","modified_gmt":"2018-12-29T01:30:35","slug":"new-research-shows-that-tornadoes-dont-form-the-way-everyone-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/new-research-shows-that-tornadoes-dont-form-the-way-everyone-thought","title":{"rendered":"New research shows that tornadoes don\u2019t form the way everyone thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-shows-that-tornadoes-dont-form-the-way-everyone-thought.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tornadoes are some of the most destructive weather events on the planet, so understanding how they form is vital in forming early warning systems that give people plenty of time to take cover. It\u2019s long been thought that rotation in storm clouds is the very first sign that a twister is taking shape, but new research suggests that the cloud rotation might actually be the last piece of the tornado puzzle.<\/p>\n<p>While monitoring a large tornado-producing storm in central Oklahoma, meteorologist Jana Houser of Ohio University gathered readings using a mobile Doppler radar that logged wind speeds twice per minute. This painted a detailed picture of the exact moment the clouds began to rotate, but it wasn\u2019t until afterward that Houser and her fellow researchers noticed an anomaly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/2018\/12\/17\/tornado-detection-weather-jana-houser\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/2018\/12\/17\/tornado-detection-weather-jana-houser\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/2018\/12\/17\/tornado-detection-weather-jana-houser\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/2018\/12\/17\/tornado-detection-weather-jana-houser\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tornadoes are some of the most destructive weather events on the planet, so understanding how they form is vital in forming early warning systems that give people plenty of time to take cover. It\u2019s long been thought that rotation in storm clouds is the very first sign that a twister is taking shape, but new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86208,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85925\/revisions\/86208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}