Tornado Hazard Analysis Web Page

MTSU Collaborative Project between the Department of Mathematical Sciences and Geosciences:  A Service/Research Project for Rutherford County Emergency Management Agency

•  Lisa Bloomer, Ph.D.
•  Curtis Church, Ph.D.
• James Henry, Ph.D.
• Ahmed Khansari, Ph.D
• Thomas Nolan, M.S.
• Ginger Holmes Rowell, Ph.D.
• Zachariah Sinkala, Ph.D.

Goal:   The primary goal of the this project is to assess the risks of the natural disaster of tornadoes striking Rutherford County and to estimate the corresponding costs associated with these disasters for the next five years.

Final Report: Due to the large file size, the file was split into parts and converted into an Adobe PDF

• Part 1 (Introduction and Historical Perspective)
• Part 2a (Mathematical Modeling and Simulated Paths)
• Part 2b (Simulated Paths continued)
• Part 3  (Cost Analysis)

Some Links of Interest

• Tornado Data Websites 
• Population Data
• Modeling & Simulation
• Property Infrastructure Data
  
• Project Papers
  • Rutherford County Tornado Hazard Preliminary Report: 1877 to 2002, by Angel Long.  This paper provides descriptive statistics for the Rutherford County tornados.
    
• Working Document
  • Risk Management and Hazard Model for Tornadoes in Rutherford County, by A.C. Khnasari, Ph. D. This working document is helpful for the project team to learn about the many aspects of this project.
    
• Article Abstracts