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Tornado Alley, also known as Tornado Valley, is a loosely defined location of the central United States and Canada where tornadoes are most frequent. [1] The term was first used in 1952 as the title of a research project to study severe weather in areas of Texas , Louisiana , Oklahoma , Kansas , South Dakota , Iowa and Nebraska .
Satellite image of the storm system responsible for the tornado outbreak that occurred on April 25–28, 2024. On April 20, 2024, the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center (SPC) first delineated a severe weather risk for April 25–26, highlighting a zone extending from the Central Great Plains northeastward to the Midwestern U.S.
Clockwise from top: A NSSL Mobile Mesonet Truck observing an EF2 tornado near Eldorado, Oklahoma; Aerial view of low-end EF4 damage to destroyed homes in northeastern Greenfield, Iowa; Webcam view of an EF3 tornado in Fort Pierce, Florida spawned by Hurricane Milton; A large EF4 tornado in Elkhorn, Nebraska; An illustration of where traditional and mobile radars usually scan a tornado or its ...
A new research paper recently submitted to the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology confirms what AccuWeather reported in 2022: tornadoes have shifted east from classic "tornado alley ...
This page documents all tornadoes confirmed by various weather forecast offices of the National Weather Service in the United States for April 2024. Tornado counts are considered preliminary until final publication in the database of the National Centers for Environmental Information. [1]
Wayne’s Feed Store was one of the businesses damaged by a March 2, 2012 tornado that tore through parts of Cherokee County. It was one of eight tornadoes to hit Western North Carolina in the ...
A tornado developed north of Pacific Junction damaging trees and power poles. Moving generally northward, the tornado crossed US 34/US 275, ripping a large portion of the roof off of a house and flipping a large camper on its side. The tornado then moved through a forested area, where many tree were snapped before the tornado dissipated. [45] EF3
But it's where they happened that made February 2024 weird. In the map below, note how the majority of those tornadoes were in the Midwest, not in the South. ... One F4 tornado near Oxford ...