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The state saw a total of 44 tornadoes in all of 2023, so it’s been a more active season in 2024. But when you look at averages since tornadoes started to be recorded in 1950, this year’s ...
Tornado counts are considered preliminary until final publication in the database of the National Centers for Environmental Information. [1] Based on the 1991–2020 average, about 39 tornadoes are typically recorded across the United States during January, about 36 tornadoes are recorded in February, and about 80 tornadoes are recorded in ...
Tornado outbreak sequence of June 25–27, 1951; Tornado outbreak of May 21–24, 1952; 1953 Waco tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak of May 29, 1953; 1955 Great Plains tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak of May 19–22, 1957; Tornado outbreak sequence of June 20–23, 1957; St. Louis tornado outbreak of February 1959; Tornado outbreak of April ...
In the United States, the year started off somewhat slow with a below average number of tornadoes through the first three months. However, the El Niño pattern that was in place during that period weakened in April; the pattern shift caused the more traditional Tornado Alley zone to rapidly become extremely favorable for tornado outbreaks, and several large outbreaks occurred in late spring.
Peak tornado season in Kansas runs from April through June. The most recent four-year count was 155 tornadoes spanning 2020 to 2023, according to a social media post from NWS Wichita office. It ...
Here’s how FEMA ranks the Kansas City area counties when it comes to the tornado risk compared to the rest of the country: Clay County: 96.9, which is relatively high Jackson County: 99.6, which ...
One of the most intense Plains outbreaks on record, produced five violent tornadoes in Oklahoma and Kansas. A very violent F5 tornado killed 17 people in the Wichita metropolitan area at Andover, Kansas, destroying an entire mobile-home park. A long-tracked F4 tornado near Red Rock, Oklahoma, produced Doppler-indicated winds into the F5 range ...
NEXRAD radar imagery of an EF2 tornado near Alta Vista, Kansas on March 13, 2024 (supercell with hook echo on left, velocity on right). The weather system responsible for the outbreak was evident multiple days prior, but the area that received the worst tornadoes was not expected to be the main threat.