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Andrew Berrington @ahberrington.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wanted to post on my own account about the work going on @tornadoarchive.com from Blue Ayanami, whose tireless work is uncovering a massive number of tornadoes in the 1800s. For example, there are now 60-70 tornadoes on 4/18/1880 and 3/27/1890, and over 100 (!!) in the 1884 Enigma Outbreak. (1/3)

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Tornado Archive @tornadoarchive.com · 18/09/2026

Although not much new information was available for Mexico, the nation's only known violent tornado is now properly recorded on the site. Previously, only the US portion was included, where the tornado caused EF3 damage in Texas.

Track map of the 2007 Piedras Negras F4.

Comparison to the NCEI track that was available before the update.

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Tornado Archive @tornadoarchive.com · 18/09/2026

If you spot any errors, please let us know via this thread or dms, as our report feature is currently offline.

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Tornado Archive @tornadoarchive.com · 18/09/2026

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Tornado Archive @tornadoarchive.com · 18/09/2026

If you spot any errors, please let us know via this thread or dms, as our report feature is currently offline.

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Tornado Archive @tornadoarchive.com · 18/09/2026

With this update, our records for the Pasillo de los Tornados (BR-AR-UY-PY) go from 635 -> 1138 tornadoes, 134 -> 247 sigtors, and 11 -> 28 violents. Many obvious errors have been corrected, though given the unofficial nature of much of the data, there may still be some.

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Tornado Archive @tornadoarchive.com · 18/09/2026

A massive upgrade to almost all of our Latin American tornado data is now available on the site! We're aware of some additional data still for South America, but as of now we've included as much publicly available information as we could.

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Tornado Archive @tornadoarchive.com · 05/09/2026

Fair enough! Don't feel like you have to though, I don't mind sifting through it/just using the Netherlands stuff since I was gonna end up digitizing it myself anyways.

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Tornado Archive @tornadoarchive.com · 05/09/2026

This is on my radar but is a bit on the back burner for now. If ur able to share that map I'd appreciate it though!

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Tornado Archive @tornadoarchive.com · 05/09/2026

I manually updated the ratings for Catania and Neede when those dropped but if there's anything else you're aware of that's major lmk.

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Tornado Archive @tornadoarchive.com · 05/09/2026

LatAm is gonna have by far the biggest update, and I might get my hands on even more soon. China is also in the pipeline. Europe needs an update but we have to get back in touch with ESWD. Is there any particular data we should be looking at for the Phillipines? Also thx for the heads up on Japan.

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Tornado Archive @tornadoarchive.com · 01/09/2026

Some massive and much needed updates to certain international tornado datasets coming soon -- stay tuned

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Tornado Archive @tornadoarchive.com · 12/08/2026

kml or kmz but unfortunately the data submission form is currently broken

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Tornado Archive @tornadoarchive.com · 04/04/2026

Over the last few months the content team has been revamping our database system to allow for more frequent updates. This of course has delayed site deployments. Along with US 2025 tors, updates to previous datasets and addition of several more are in the works. We look forward to sharing it soon! 🌪️

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Tornado Archive @tornadoarchive.com · 09/01/2026

1/8/2026 7:10 PM CDT update on the current site outage: we are in the process of a server transition and upgrade that will result in downtime until it is complete. Our previous traffic allowance was exceeded with the old provider. We thank you for your patience during this maintenance period.

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Tornado Archive @tornadoarchive.com · 07/10/2025

We're aware that the tornadoarchive site is currently down and are working to fix the problem. It may take up to 24 hours for the site to come back online. Thank you for your patience.

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Tornado Archive @tornadoarchive.com · 01/06/2025

v2.3.1 is live, which includes the 2024 US data and the Philippines data! This also includes the globe view and bug fixes for European environment data and missing wind barbs for all environment data on some machines. tornadoarchive.com/home/tornado...

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Tornado Archive @tornadoarchive.com · 25/05/2025

We've also been working on redoing the environment data, including our own CAPE calculations and laying the foundation for the addition of point-and-click soundings in a future version. We were hoping to release this with the 2024 data, but it's turned into a much bigger project than we anticipated.

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Tornado Archive @tornadoarchive.com · 25/05/2025

You may have noticed some curvature in the map on the above image. We've switched to plotting everything on a globe instead of a flat map, which has the advantage of reducing distortion near the poles, in addition to looking pretty cool. This will be released with the 2024 data.

From a forthcoming release: all documented tornadoes plotted on a globe with the eastern North America, parts of south America, western Africa, and Europe visible.

From a forthcoming release: tornadoes the across the US on 6 May 2024 with 500 mb heights, winds, and wind speed at 02Z 7 May.

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Tornado Archive @tornadoarchive.com · 25/05/2025

2024 was a very busy year for tornadoes in the US, so it's taken a while to get all the data processed. We're in the final stages of this task, and the 2024 US data will hopefully be released soon. We're also working on getting updated European data from ESWD, hopefully this summer.

From a forthcoming release: tornadoes in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri on 26 April 2024 along with ERA5 2 m dewpoint, 10 m winds, and MSLP at 20Z 26 April.

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Tornado Archive @tornadoarchive.com · 21/12/2024

In our next database release we will have a data void over the Philippines filled with the Severe Weather Archive of the Philippines (SWAP) dataset. We are thankful of Generich Capuli for donating and maintaining the data! You may view the SWAP project on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Tornado Archive @tornadoarchive.com · 22/11/2024

As a first non-introductory post, we'd like to refer you to our BAMS paper that was recently published this summer that describes the features of our tornado database: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...

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Tornado Archive @tornadoarchive.com · 22/11/2024

Hello from the Tornado Archive team, Bluesky! Tornado Archive is a website dedicated to worldwide tornado history, climatology, and data visualization. Check out our data viewer!

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