{"id":510,"date":"2014-08-01T15:15:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T19:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=510"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:13:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:13:55","slug":"interactive-tornado-tracker-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/08\/interactive-tornado-tracker-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Interactive tornado tracker tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a neat tool for looking at historical tornado tracks across the country.\u00a0 It is run by the Midwestern Climate Center using the official Storm Prediction Center database and mapped onto an interactive map.\u00a0 You can zoom into your county and filter by date and Fujita scale of tornado.\u00a0 It defaults to F3 and larger tornadoes so you might have to pick a different category to find the smaller tornadoes in your area.\u00a0 Once you see your county on the map, you can click on it to display all tracks in your county, or you can click on an individual track (as I did below) to see details on a particular storm.\u00a0 You can find the tracker by going to <a title=\"MCC tornado tracker\" href=\"https:\/\/mrcc.isws.illinois.edu\/gismaps\/cntytorn.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/mrcc.isws.illinois.edu\/gismaps\/cntytorn.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/08\/tornado-tracks-map-from-MCC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-511\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/08\/tornado-tracks-map-from-MCC-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/08\/tornado-tracks-map-from-MCC-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/08\/tornado-tracks-map-from-MCC-274x138.jpg 274w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/08\/tornado-tracks-map-from-MCC.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a neat tool for looking at historical tornado tracks across the country.\u00a0 It is run by the Midwestern Climate Center using the official Storm Prediction Center database and mapped onto an interactive map.\u00a0 You can zoom into your county and filter by date and Fujita scale of tornado.\u00a0 It defaults to F3 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-weather-images","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data","category-tools-for-climate-and-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22744,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/22744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}