What is the instrument used to predict tornadoes?

Answer 1

In long term forecasts, which predict overall weather patterns, different instruments are used including thermometers, barometers, hygrometer and anemometers to measure temperature, pressure, humidity, and wind speed and direction. Some of these instruments can be mounted on weather balloons. Information such as this is then fed into supercomputers that run forecast models. This can be used to predict if overall conditions favor the formation of tornadoes, but not where specific tornadoes will occur.

In the short term, doppler radar can be used to detect rotation and, with recent advances, tornadic debris, within a thunderstorm. This can be used to determine if a tornado may form soon, or if one is already occurring.

Answer 2

In long-term predictions over hours and days, many sorts of data are uses including temperature, humidity, pressure, and wind speed and direction at different locations and altitudes. This includes tracking potential storm systems that could produce tornadic thunderstorms. This can predict general regions that might be at risk on a given day, but cannot tell where individual tornadoes will strike.

In short-term predictions, meteorologists rely on velocity and reflectivity data from Doppler radar as well as reports from eyewitnesses.

Answer 3

To predict conditions favorable for tornadoes, scinetists use a wide variaety of tools including weather balloons, anemometers for measuring wind speed, barometers for measuring pressure, hygrometers for measuring humidity, and supercomputers for running forecast models. These can predict if tornadoes are likely across a region on a given day, but cannot tell where or when individual tornadoes will occur. In shorter-term predicitions Doppler radar is used to detect rotation that may lead to a tornado, though it cannot tell for certain if one will form. it can also, to a limited degreed, detect a tornado that has already formed.

Answer 4

They need information such as temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and barometric pressure and how these factors vary both across regions and at different heights.

Answer 5

The primary tool for tracking tornadoes is Doppler radar.