02READ THE ATMOSPHERE
Storm Forecasting
Connect soundings, radar, satellite, observations, and models into a more useful picture of the environment.
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Guides in Storm Forecasting
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Concept Explainer
CAPE and Parcel Choice
CAPE changes when the starting parcel changes. Learn what surface-based, mixed-layer, and most-unstable CAPE actually describe.
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02
Tool Guide
How to Read a Hodograph
Turn a wind profile into a picture of shear, storm-relative flow, and possible storm organization by reading the hodograph layer by layer.
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03
Tool Guide
How to Read a Skew-T
Learn a repeatable way to read temperature, moisture, buoyancy, and wind on a Skew-T without getting lost in the parameter table.
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04
Visual Field Guide
How to Read a Surface Observation Plot
Read temperature, dewpoint, wind, sky cover, visibility, pressure and present weather from the compact ASOS and AWOS plots used on Tornado Titans maps.
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05
Concept Explainer
Storm-Relative Helicity
Learn what SRH measures, why storm motion changes it, and how to use shallow and effective layers without treating the value as a tornado probability.
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Concept Explainer
The Cap and Convective Initiation
Learn how inhibition, lift, moisture, and heating work together to decide whether growing cumulus becomes a sustained thunderstorm.
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