Victor Gensini

Research Emphases

• Severe convective storms
• Climate variability and change
• Prediction and predictability

Frequently Taught Courses

• EAE 105: Weather, Climate and You
• MET 300: Meteorology
• MET 421/521: Synoptic Meteorology
• MET 450/550: Numerical Weather Prediction

Representative Publications

Bundy, L., R., K. Kaminski, A. M. Haberlie, W. S. Ashley, and V. A. Gensini, 2025: Derecho impacts on United States crop condition ratings and yield. Agric. For. Meteorol., 376. DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110913.

Hoogewind, K. A., T. J. Galarneau, and V. A. Gensini, 2025: Severe convective weather outbreaks on 10 and 15 December 2021: Large-Scale antecedent conditions. Mon. Wea. Rev., 153, 1171–1194. DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-24-0213.1.

Gensini, V. A., K. Weickmann, and C. Roufa, 2024: Global wind oscillation. Book chapter #12 in Atmospheric Oscillations. Editor B. Guan, Elsevier. ISBN-13: 978-0-44-315638-0.

Gensini, V. A., W. S. Ashley, A. C. Michaelis, A. M. Haberlie, J. Goodin, and B. Wallace, 2024: Hailstone size dichotomy in a warming climate. npj Clim. Atmos. Sci., 7, 185. DOI:10.1038/s41612-024-00728-9.

Stinnett, S., V. A. Gensini, A. M. Haberlie, A. C. Michaelis, and W. S. Ashley, 2024: Changes in extreme daily precipitation over the contiguous United States from convection-permitting simulations. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., 63, 1523–1543. DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-23-0206.1

Andrews, M. S., V. A. Gensini, A. M. Haberlie, W. S. Ashley, A. C. Michaelis, and M.Taszarek, 2024: Climatology of the elevated mixed layer over the contiguous United States and northern Mexico using ERA5: 1979–2021. J. Climate., 37, 1833–1851. DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D23-0517.1.

Ashley, W. S., A. M. Haberlie, and V. A. Gensini, 2023: The future of supercells in the United States. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 104, E1–E21. DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0027.1.

Miller, D. E., and V. A. Gensini, 2023: GEFSv12 high- and low-skill day 10 tornado forecasts. Wea. Forecasting, 38, 1195–1207. DOI: 10.1175/WAF-D-22-0122.1.

Miller, D. E., V. A. Gensini, and B. S. Barrett, 2022: Madden-Julian Oscillation influences on US springtime tornado and hail frequency. npj Climate and Atmos. Science., 5, 37. DOI: 10.1038/s41612-022-00263-5

Bundy, L., V. A. Gensini, and M. Russo, 2022: Insured corn losses in the U.S. from weather and climate perils. J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol., DOI:  10.1175/JAMC-D-21-0245.1

Gensini V. A. , A. M. Haberlie, and W. S. Ashley, 2022: Convection-permitting simulations of historical and possible future climate over the contiguous United States. Clim. Dyn., DOI:  10.1007/s00382-022-06306-0

Gensini V. A., C. Converse, W. S. Ashley, and M. Taszarek, 2021: Machine learning classification of significant tornadoes and hail in the U.S. using ERA5 proximity soundings. Wea. Forecasting, 36, 2143-2160, DOI:  10.1175/WAF-D-21-0056.1

Gensini V. A. , A. M. Haberlie, and P. T. Marsh, 2020: Practically perfect hindcasts of severe convective storms. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 101, E1259–E1278, DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0321.1

Gensini V. A. , B. S. Barrett, J. T. Allen, D. Gold, and P. Sirvatka, 2020: The Extended Range Tornado Activity Forecast (ERTAF) Project. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 101, E700–E709, DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0188.1

Current Grants

National Science Foundation, IUCRC Phase I Northern Illinois University: Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Convective Storms (CIRCS) 2025–2030, Role: PI.

National Science Foundation, Collaborative Research: AGS-FIRP Track 3: In-situ Collaborative Experiment for the Collection of Hail In the Plains (ICECHIP). 2024–2027, Role: PI