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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 .
Tornado alley has changed and shifted over the years, but as of 2023 Accuweather lists eight states as being part of this area with a unique combination of geographic and meteorological factors ...
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 ...
Residents walk through a tornado-damaged neighborhood on May 29, 2019 in Dayton as cleanup efforts began. A total of 21 tornadoes touched down in Ohio between May 27 and May 28, 2019.
A brief F1 tornado caused minimal damage in Mason City, [42] and an F3 tornado hit the crossroads of Illinois Routes 154–150, damaging six homes and causing $250,000 (1957 USD) in damages. [43] An F2 tornado moved for 4.5 miles across Jefferson County , deroofing multiple buildings and injuring two people. [ 44 ]
Thorsby is located on the heart of a tornado alley known as the Dixie Alley due to the frequency of tornadoes in Central Alabama. In late summer and fall months, Thorsby experiences occasional tropical storms and hurricanes due to its proximity to the Central Gulf Coast .
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 ...
Since its initial usage in May 1999, the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States has used the tornado emergency bulletin — a high-end classification of tornado warning — sent through either the issuance of a warning or via a "severe weather statement" that provides updated information on an ongoing warning—that is issued when a violent tornado (confirmed by radar or ground ...