Second tropical storm of the 2008 Atlantic season forms in the far eastern Atlantic near The Cape Verde Islands. The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Tropical Storm Bertha.
The Storm Prediction Center is predicting widespread damaging thunderstorm winds, strong tornadoes and, large hail over a large part of the eastern Plains and the Upper Mississippi Valley.
The National Hurricane Center has issued its last advisory on Tropical Depression Arthur.
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center today announced that projected climate conditions point to a near normal or above normal hurricane season in the Atlantic Basin this year. Hurricane season officially begins in the Atlantic on June 1.
NOAA hurricane experts will travel aboard a NOAA WP-3 Orion turboprop Hurricane Hunter aircraft in a five-day, five-city tour of the Gulf Coast beginning April 14 to raise awareness of the hurricanes that can and have threatened the region.
NOAA has deployed the final tsunami detection buoys in the South Pacific, completing the buoy network and bolstering the U.S. tsunami warning system
Preliminary severe weather reports through Tuesday night indicate one tornado in Alabama. Nearly two hundred reports of damaging thunderstorm winds were received from Georgia and eastern Tennessee, across the Carolinas and Virginia, into Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Preliminary severe weather reports received by the National Weather Service list one tornado in Mississippi, over twenty reports of damaging thunderstorms winds, and several reports of large hail.
A team of scientists have found that the economic damages from hurricanes have increased in the U.S. over time due to greater population, infrastructure, and wealth on the U.S.
Over 300 reports of tornadoes, wind damage, and large hail were received on Tuesday. The severe weather stretched from eastern Texas into Ohio.
