Casey Davenport, Ph.D.

Casey Davenport, Ph.D., is an associate professor of meteorology with research expertise in severe weather, particularly focusing on thunderstorms capable of producing tornadoes.
She is particularly passionate about severe weather, which motivates her primary research interest in the dynamics of severe storms. She participated in VORTEX2, a large multi-agency field project that set out to learn more about how tornadoes and tornadic thunderstorms work. The project also inspired her current research trajectory focusing on the impact of temporally- and spatially-varying environments on storm evolution. Davenport is also interested in better understanding how changes to environments influence internal processes and storm behavior, using both observations and idealized modeling. Her proximity to the Appalachian Mountains further inspires her to investigate the interaction of thunderstorms and complex terrain.