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The state with the highest number of strong tornadoes per unit area is Oklahoma, with the state's Cleveland County having the most tornadoes per square mile. [19] States such as Oklahoma and Kansas have lower population densities, so tornadoes in those states, while severe, may cause somewhat less property damage. [20]
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 .
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 ...
Texas on average has 140 tornadoes every year – the most of any state. Kansas, Florida, Oklahoma, and Nebraska round out the top five. But the total number of tornadoes does not always tell the ...
Illinois has had large tornado outbreaks in the past, the most notable being the tornado outbreak sequence of December 18–20, 1957. Illinois is vulnerable to tornadoes with an average of 35 occurring annually, which puts much of the state at around 5 tornadoes per 10,000 square miles (30,000 km 2) annually. [1]
On average (1950–2008), more than two tornadoes per year strike the state of Massachusetts alone, with New England as a whole recording more than 8. [1] [2] Most tornadoes reported in the region are "weak", rated EF0 or EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita scale (the Fujita scale prior to 2007). Around 30% are "significant" tornadoes (rated EF2 or ...
Statewide, there have been 38 tornado reports, with over 125 issued tornado warnings by the National Weather Service, the agency said early Thursday morning – the most tornado warnings ever in a ...
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