Thursday, May 23, 2013

Moore EF5 Tornado: Information and Resources

















INFORMATION GRAPHICS
Preliminary Outline of Newcastle/Moore – South OKC Tornado (Courtesy: National Weather Service Norman, OK)
May 20, 2013 EF-5 Tornado Path and LandScan Population (Courtesy: National Weather Service Norman, OK)

SOCIAL MEDIA
US National Weather Service Norman Oklahoma (Facebook)
NWS Norman (Twitter)

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN, OK
The Tornado Outbreak of May 20, 2013

OKLAHOMA CITY LOCAL TV AFFILIATES
KFOR Channel 4
KOCO Channel 5
KWTV Channel 9
KOKC Channel 25

NATIONAL NEWS
Oklahoma Tornado Victims: Names Confirmed By Medical Examiner’s Office, 10 Children Killed (Huffington Post)

PHOTOS/IMAGES
PHOTOS: Monster Tornadoes Tear Through Oklahoma (The Weather Channel)
Tornadoes rip through Oklahoma town (MSN)
Radar Imagery for the Tornado Outbreak of May 20, 2013 (Courtesy: National Weather Service Norman, OK)
Radar Timeline of the Newcastle-Moore EF-5 (Courtesy: National Weather Service Norman, OK)
Tornado Debris Signature (Courtesy: National Weather Service Norman, OK)
Oklahoma Tornado 2013 From Space (Flickr/Courtesy: NASA Goddard Photo and Video)

VIDEOS
High Speed Imagery of the Oklahoma Tornadoes (YouTube/Courtesy: NOAAVisualizations)
Moore Tornado 2013 (YouTube search results)

INTERACTIVE
Before/After Images: Moore, Okla. Tornado (The Weather Channel/Courtesy: Google Earth, Associated Press)
Moore, Oklahoma Tornado Google Crisis Map (Courtesy: Google Crisis Response/Google Maps)
Interactive: Damage Path of Moore Tornado (The Weather Channel/Courtesy: National Weather Service Norman, OK/Google Maps)
Note: If you have Google Maps, you can download a high-quality KMZ file for the Newcastle-Moore tornado damage including path and survey point information or path only. Just click HERE, scroll down to the links under the heading “Information Sources” and click the appropriate KMZ file link for download.

DONATIONS
American Red Cross: Heart of Oklahoma Chapter
Salvation Army

Please note that the links we have listed here are only a few of what you can find on the internet. Also, if you would like to see links of coverage we have included on past blogs, please visit our blog archive.


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