This is a visualization of a simulation of the tornado that hit El Reno on May 24, 2011. AVL has visualized precipitation, specifically in the forms of cloud water, cloud ice, and cloud rain. This was an attempt at a realistic treatment of the data, since these variables are what would be visible to the naked eye when watching the actual tornado. To put the size of the tornado into perspective, the ground floor is a grid made up of 1km squares which move at the speed of the tornado.
Funded in part by: National Science Foundation Award: ACI-1445176
The Centrality of Advance Dgitally Enabled Science: CADENS