Zoe Searcy

Title
Assistant Professor
Email
Department
Applied Aviation Sciences Department
College
College of Aviation

Areas of Expertise

Atmospheric Environments, Tornadoes, Convective Environments, Climatology, Hazardous Weather
Zoe Searcy
  • Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Geography, Florida State University
  • M.S. - Master of Science in Geoscience: Professional Meteorology/Climatology, Mississippi State University
  • B.S. - Bachelor of Science in Geoscience: Professional Meteorology, Mississippi State University

WX 201 - Survey of Meteorology

WX 261 - Applied Climatology

GEO 295 - Natural Hazards

WX 301 - Aviation Weather

WX 363 - Thunderstorms

WX 422 - Meteorology Statistics and Data Analysis

Schroder, Z., T. Fricker, K. Malloy, and D. Burow (2025). “U.S. Natural Hazards Climate Change Projections: Tornado.” National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Columbia Climate School. https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/1c0de890d9ff4fe2b6088126ba1d3db5/page/Tornado Launch Date: February 2025 

Burow, D., Kressler, K*. and Searcy, Z. (2025), On the Convective Environments,  Modes, and Warning Verifications of Tornado- and Flash Flood-Warned Storms in the Southeast United States. Meteorol Appl, 32:e70062. https://doi.org/10.1002/met.70062 

Schroder, Z., and T. Fricker, 2023: “Exploring the overlap: comparing STORGIS and  ONETOR data between 1950 and 1989”. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 155 (3), 2283–2295. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00704-023-04755-z.  

Schroder, Z. and Fricker, T., 2023. "Expanding the historical ‘outbreak’ climatology between 1880 to 1989". In: Natural Hazards.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-023-05986-z  

Schroder, Z., 2022. "Regional SST and SLP conditions related to tornado ‘outbreak’ environments 15 days later". Theoretical and Applied Meteorology. https://doi.org/10.31223/X5BS6Q 

Schroder, Z. and Elsner, J.B., 2021. "Predicting ‘outbreak’-level tornado counts and casualties from environmental variables". In: Journal of Weather, Climate, and Society. https://doi.org/10.1175/WCAS-D-20-0130.1 

Schroder, Z. and Elsner, J. B., 2020. "Quantifying relationships between environmental factors and power dissipation on the most prolific days in the largest tornado 'outbreaks'”. In: International Journal of Climatology. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.6388. 

Elsner, J. B. and Schroder, Z., 2019. "Tornado Damage Ratings Estimated with Cumulative Logistic Regression". In: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 58.12, pp. 2733–2741. https://doi.org/10.1175/jamc-d-19-0178.1 

Elsner, J.B., Fricker, T., and Schroder, Z., 2019. "Increasingly Powerful Tornadoes in the United States". In: Geophysical Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL080819 

American Meteorological Society

American Association of Geographers