The Northern Tornadoes Project

The Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP), founded at Western University in 2017 with the support of social impact fund ImpactWX, aims to better detect tornado occurrence throughout Canada, improve severe and extreme weather understanding and prediction, mitigate against harm to people and property, and investigate future implications due to climate change.

Western University also partners with the University of Manitoba, Pelmorex's The Weather Network, Instant Weather and CatIQ, and closely collaborates with Environment and Climate Change Canada and several Canadian and international universities on this Project.

You can visit our new sister initiative, the Northern Hail Project (NHP), here.
 

New! The latest NTP Annual Report covering the 2023 season can be found here.

New! The NTP team has published a new paper on the automation of treefall detection and analysis using machine learning - see here.

New! Note that the application deadline for the 2024 NTP/NHP Summer Internships has now passed.

New! NTP's tornado warning performance assessment for Canada has been peer reviewed and published in Atmosphere-Ocean here.

New! NTP's assessment of wind speeds associated with the Alonsa, MB EF4 tornado has been peer-reviewed and published in the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics here.

 
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Open Data for NTP

The Open Data site for Western's Northern Tornadoes Project is an access point for tornado data (ground, drone, aerial and satellite surveys and related assessments) and statistics, event assessment tools and public reporting. Non-commercial use of the data is permitted and encouraged. For commercial use, please contact us at ntp@uwo.ca.