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The UK has the most annual tornadoes per land area per year, 0.14 per 1000 km 2 (although these tornadoes are generally weak), and other European countries have a similar number of tornadoes per area. [37] One notable tornado of recent years was the tornado that struck Birmingham, United Kingdom, in July 2005. A row of houses was destroyed, but ...
Areas worldwide where tornadoes are most likely, indicated by orange shading. The United States has the most tornadoes of any country, nearly four times more than estimated in all of Europe, excluding waterspouts. [78] This is mostly due to the unique geography of the continent.
The 2011 Super Outbreak was the largest tornado outbreak spawned by a single weather system in recorded history; it produced 367 tornadoes from April 25–28, with 223 of those in a single 24-hour period on April 27 from midnight to midnight CDT, [4] [11] fifteen of which were violent EF4–EF5 tornadoes. 348 deaths occurred in that outbreak, of which 324 were tornado related.
Texas on average has 140 tornadoes every year – the most of any state. Kansas, Florida, Oklahoma, and Nebraska round out the top five. ... One thing most countries have in common is the time of ...
Prior to 1950 in the United States, only significant tornadoes are listed for the number of tornadoes in outbreaks. Due to increasing detection, particularly in the U.S., numbers of counted tornadoes have increased markedly in recent decades although the number of actual tornadoes and counted significant tornadoes has not. In older events, the ...
This year has marked the return of the classic tornado alley in the U.S. Plains.After the May tornadoes, Texas and Iowa were the top states with the most tornadoes. As of July 17, Texas is still ...
ESWD lists the strongest tornado from this outbreak as an F5/T11, T11 being the highest rating on the TORRO scale. This tornado is regarded as the strongest in German history and is one of only 2 F5 tornadoes that have ever been recorded in the country. [42] [43] [44]
The most active day for tornado reports was April 26, 2024, when a series of storms across the U.S. produced more than 100 tornadoes. Expensive and deadly: Near record number of tornadoes reported ...