tornadoes – The Map Room

Mapping Disasters in America

Jonathan Crowe — Sat, 04 May 2019 21:44:05 +0000

The Washington Post maps disasters in the United States, with a page that shows maps of flood warnings, tornadoes and hurricanes, extreme heat and cold (see above), wildfires, lightning, and earthquakes and volcanoes. In the wake of a natural disaster there’s usually someone suggesting that the victims are at fault for living in a disaster zone. The WaPost’s maps have an answer to that: “It turns out there is nowhere in the United States that is particularly insulated from everything.”

Mapping Tornado Migration

Jonathan Crowe — Wed, 16 May 2018 23:12:05 +0000

John Nelson’s map of tornado migration in the United States, showing the seasonal variations in tornado occurrence, is a master class in data visualization and design—in deciding on the right way to present geographic information. The map combines three styles—impressionistic choropleth, weighted mean centre movement diagram, and small multiple—to present month-by-month information all at once; in the accompanying text (also here), Nelson discusses some of the alternatives he could have chosen instead. And in a separate post he talks about how he made the map. [Esri]

Previously: Mapping Tornado Tracks.

Mapping Tornado Tracks

Jonathan Crowe — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 16:35:38 +0000

Using more than 50 years of NOAA data, John Nelson of IDV Solutions has created a map of tornado tracks across the United States, categorized by their F-scales (he’s also broken them out by each F-scale). Via O’Reilly Radar.