Machine Learning with Feature Importance Analysis for Tornado Prediction from Environmental Sounding Data

Brice Coffer1, Michaela Kubacki2, Yixin Wen3,4, Ting Zhang5, Carlos A. Barajas6,∗, and Matthias K. Gobbert6 1 Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Science, North Carolina State University, USA 2 Department of Mathematics, Middlebury College, USA 3 Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, University of Oklahoma, USA 4 NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, Oklahoma, USA 5 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, McDaniel College, USA 6 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA