Yvette Richardson

Yvette Richardson is a professor of meteorology, senior associate dean for undergraduate education at Pennsylvania State University and a fellow of the American Meteorological Society. Her research focuses on understanding the formation and evolution of severe storms through both numerical modeling and observations.

With the new “Twisters” movie hitting theaters, here are details of what scientists do in this kind of fieldwork when they race after storms.
By Yvette Richardson
A tornado seen April 19, 1977, at Lakeview, Texas. (Photo courtesy of National Severe Storms Laboratory)