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  2. Tornado Alley - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. Great Plains - Wikipedia

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    The Shoshone originated in the western Great Basin and spread north and east into present-day Idaho and Wyoming. By 1500, some Eastern Shoshone had crossed the Rocky Mountains into the Great Plains. After 1750, warfare and pressure from the Blackfoot, Crow, Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho pushed Eastern Shoshone south and westward.

  4. Tornado Alley may be expanding; Here's why Southern states ...

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    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 ...

  5. Geography of the United States - Wikipedia

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    A powerful tornado near Dimmitt, Texas on June 2, 1995. The United States is affected by a variety of natural disasters yearly. Although drought is rare, it has occasionally caused major disruption, such as during the Dust Bowl (1931–1942). Farmland failed throughout the Plains, entire regions were substantially depopulated, and dust storms ...

  6. Is 'Tornado Alley' shifting east? - AOL

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    The term Tornado Alley was coined in 1952 when two meteorologists studied severe weather in parts of Texas and Okla. On average, 1,200 tornadoes hit the United States each year, according to the ...

  7. ‘Tornado alley' has been expanding over the past 50 years ...

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    "In 2024," DePodwin continued, "the more traditional tornado alley (southern Plains and Midwest) has been far more active than in recent years, and there have been significantly fewer tornadoes ...

  8. 1987 Teton–Yellowstone tornado - Wikipedia

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    The Teton–Yellowstone tornado was a rare high-altitude tornado which occurred on July 21, 1987, in the U.S. state of Wyoming. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Rated at F4 on the Fujita scale , it remains the strongest tornado ever recorded in the state and the only officially rated F4/EF4 in Wyoming history.

  9. Tornado Alley Is Expanding, Hitting More Southern States - AOL

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    This is because ‘Tornado Alley’ is expanding, and millions of Americans in the a region of the Southeast known as ‘Dixie Alley’ are now at a greater risk for tornadoes than those in the ...