Who discovered tornadoes?

Answer 1

There are a lot of people who study tornadoes such as storm spotters and storm chasers as well as tons of meteorologists. The National Weather Service are the main people who study tornadoes along with the different centers located within the National Weather Service such as the Severe Storms Laboratory, and the Storm Prediction Center. They do it to gain a better understanding of tornadoes and their inner workings to try and create better technology which could help save more lives.

Answer 2

Well, generally to answer your question... There isn't actually a specific name for a scientist that studies Tornadoes. A scientist that studies the weather is called a meteorologist. They study all aspects of the weather and that would include Tornadoes.

Answer 3

Many scientists have studied and still study tornadoes.

One of the first scientists to conduct major studies of tornadoes was John Park Finley, who worked in the late 1800s. Perhaps the most notable scientist to have studied tornadoes was Tetsuya Fujita, who created the Fujita scale (F scale) of tornado intensity in 1971 and later demonstrated the existence of multiple-vortex tornadoes. Thomas P. Grazulis, who studied tornadoes in the late twentieth century, created one of the most extensive databases of tornadoes in the world. Tim Samaras studied the internal dynamics of tornadoes using Doppler Radar and probes created to go inside tornadoes. Samaras, his son Paul, and his coworker Carl Young are the only tornado scientists known to have been killed by a tornado. Other notable modern tornado scientists include Howard Bluestein, Joshua Wurman, and Jim Reed.

Answer 4

The first person to have conducted extensive research on tornadoes was John Park Finely, whose main work, beginning in 1879, essentially started the study of tornado climatology.

Answer 5

Perhaps you are talking about Dr. Ted Fujita

Answer 6

The is no way of knowing for certain, but the earliest documented tornado on record occurred in Ireland in 1054.

Answer 7

severe weather experts