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Extremes & hazards

Machine learning classification of significant tornadoes and hail in the U.S. using ERA5 proximity soundings

Vittorio A. Gensini, Cody Converse, Walker S. Ashley, Mateusz Taszarek

Weather and Forecasting · · University of Oklahoma (AI2ES)

Paper

In one sentence. Random forest trained on 150,000 ERA5 proximity soundings best classifies significant tornadoes and hail, with SHAP-derived thresholds for operational nowcasting.

Labels

Topic
Extremes & hazards
Type
New model or method
Method
Classical ML (trees, GP, linear, kernels)
Domain
Regional
Data
ERA5 / reanalysis
Status
Research
Identifiers
DOI:10.1175/waf-d-21-0056.1 OpenAlex:W3203266641
Added
2026-10-22

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