Historic Storm Featured March 14th, 2024: Busiest Hail Day Ever! March 14th, 2024, was the busiest hail day on record, with giant hail, strong tornadoes, and impacts all the way from Texas to Pennsylvania.
Weather First Blizzard Warning: Over 13" of Snow in Louisiana The National Weather Service issued the first-ever blizzard warning for the southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana region, as Winter Storm Enzo tracked eastward along the Gulf Coast.
Weather Featured First of Its Kind: San Francisco Tornado Warning San Francisco saw its first-ever tornado warning on Saturday morning as a strong band of rain moved onshore. Later that day, an EF-1 tornado touched down in Scotts Valley, CA.
Weather Live Tornado Maps! Support Responders in an Emergency Real-time tornado maps are an essential tool for emergency managers to respond to severe weather. HailTrace's team of meteorologists work around the clock to ensure that emergency responders have up-to-date information on the hardest hit areas.
Weather Determining Hail Size Using Radar Hail size is key for damage assessment, but radar tools often miss the mark when creating an accurate estimate. Accurate hail size relies on expert meteorologists who use radar data and ground reports to provide reliable information for insurance claims and legal issues.
Weather The Reason for a Quiet Hurricane Season... So Far Despite forecasts for a busy season, July’s hurricane activity was quiet, likely due to Saharan dust. August’s still holds promise for more storms as conditions improve.
Weather A Near Miss at O’hair: How Tornadoes Can Cause Havoc at an Airport After severe thunderstorms hit Chicago's O'Hare Airport on Monday, flights were heavily delayed or canceled. While airports may not appreciate the intense storms, aviation does aid weather forecasts with data collected from airports and planes.
Weather Hurricane Beryl Causes Tornadoes Across the US Hurricanes are known for producing extreme wind and flooding, but the tornado threat post landfall is often forgotten about. Hurricane Beryl caused many tornadoes and severe weather across the US this week.
Weather Hurricane Beryl Causes Damage In Texas As It Makes Landfall Beryl broke many records in the last week, including the strongest June hurricane on record and earliest Category 5 on record.
Weather Hurricane Beryl Strengthens To Category 5, Breaking Records In the Caribbean In terms of historical records, Hurricane Beryl not only developed farther east than any Atlantic tropical cyclone in June on record, but the hurricane also stands in stark contrast to tropical cyclone climatology.
Weather Texas Breaks State Hail Record On the evening of June 2nd, a bunch of supercells fired along the dryline in the west Texas panhandle. Not an atypical sight for that part of the state this time of year. However, the storm that formed east of Happy, Texas had a surprise up it's sleeve.
Weather Hailstorm in....Austria?!? A very serious hail storm impacted areas of Northern Austria on June 9th. Over 40 reports of hail were made to the European Severe Storms Laboratory for these storms. A good number of these reports were between 6 cm and 7 cm in diameter (approx. 2.5").
Weather Radar Down! Creating Accurate Hail Maps During Radar Outages What happens to your hail mapping software if there’s no radar data? Thankfully, this situation doesn’t happen all that often. But on the early morning of April 2nd of 2024, during one of the most active severe weather days so far this year (see SPC outlook and storm
