Tornado Archive is a dedicated to worldwide tornado history, climatology, “archeology” and media. We are a group of meteorologists, storm chasers, and weather enthusiasts who intend to preserve data, educate, and provide a hop off point for your weather related research and much much more. But, WHO are WE, exactly?
Project coordinator, site design and cheerleader-in-chief, Michael Gavan.
Andrew Berrington; co-data manager, site contributor, and editor. Meteorology PhD student at the University of Oklahoma studying extended range severe weather prediction.
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Tim Supinie; meteorologist, code monkey, C-list storm chaser, and general nerd. I wrote the data explorer for Tornado Archive. In my day job, I am a research scientist with the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms, specializing in convective-scale numerical weather prediction.
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Hello! I’m Ava Aidala! Data Co-Manager, Content Team Coordinator, and Blogger. As Content Team Coordinator, I wrote up a detailed tutorial and trained others to convert and transfer the data properly. Stanford freshman passionate about meteorology.
Hi, I’m Malcolm Maas, a CS enthusiast and Physics/Atmospheric Science double major at the University of Maryland! I manage and process data for Tornado Archive, mostly with Python and Node.js.
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Jonny Glessner; Part of the Tornado Archive content team and assisted with data entry of F3 tornadoes from 1915 through 1949. YouTube Storm Chaser, weather journalist, musician, and songwriter from Ohio.
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Caitlin Beeson; GIS analyst, content team, and editor. Earth System Science alumni at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Freelance storm chaser.
Hello! I’m Harrison Cater, and I am a Biology Major at the University of Iowa with a focus on the Physician Assistant track. Despite this, weather is and has always been my principal interest and I am fascinated by tornadoes and severe thunderstorms. I love nothing more than to talk about thunderstorms in any capacity and chase when there are storms to chase. Tornado Archive content team, project Assistant.
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Stephen Szulborski; Content Team. Central Michigan University graduate, contract weather observer for Detroit Metro Airport, storm chaser, sports fan.
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Hello! I’m Jonathan Beeson, and I’m part of the GIS and Content Teams at Tornado Archive. I’m an alumni in Atmospheric and Earth Sciences from the University of Alabama in Huntsville with a concentration in GIS.
Raven Vasquez; Content Team. Texas A&M Corpus Christi environmental science graduate student. Research assistant studying the electrical characteristic of tornadic thunderstorms and climatology of tropical cyclones.
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Hi, I’m Casey Shanaberger! I am currently a geography student at Northern Iowa who enjoys storm chasing, fishing, and ultimate Frisbee. I am a part of the content and social media team.
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Spencer Dant; Tornado Archive database architect and code contributor. I spend all my money storm chasing. All-around nature nerd, software engineer, former business owner and environmental educator.
Sam Emmerson; Data wonk for the Tornado Archive content team. Graduate student at the University of Oklahoma, researching observations of severe weather with phased-array and bistatic radar systems.
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Howdy! I’m Luciano Maldonado (or Cheo), and I am a part of the Content Team, tracing tornado track diagrams and adding tornadoes from 1800 to 2022, in multiple countries. Weather nerd and animator from Ohio.
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Since receiving a MS in meteorology from the University of Oklahoma in 1997, Jonathan Finch has served the public as an operational meteorologist. Besides chess and saltwater fishing, I prepare meteorological charts for historical tornado events and have published on tornado events in the E-Journal of Severe Storms Meteorology. As a member of the content team, I’m continuing on a mission to uncover previously undocumented tornadoes.