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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 .
Since 1950, there have been more than 9,700 tornadoes in Texas, killing hundreds and leaving behind billions of dollars worth of damage. On March 21, 2022, a tornado tore through Round Rock ...
Another brief F0 tornado touched down near Sterling City before lifting. An F1 tornado was observed near Rotan, and an F2 tornado damaged two houses near Benjamin. Another F2 briefly touched down in the Wichita Falls area, causing damage to trees. May 26, 1955 – A brief F0 tornado touched down near Corsicana, causing little damage to crops.
A tornado was reported within the city, causing no known damage. F0: Montevideo,Uruguay [95] November 17 2011 0 A tornado touched down with no damage reported F1: Limeira, Brazil [96] March 3, 2013 0 A large F1 tornado caused serious damage within the city. F0: Brasília [97] October 1, 2014 0 (0 injured) Brief landspout F0: Asunción, Paraguay ...
In 2022, Texas saw a total of 160 tornadoes, with 49 recorded in North Texas. But April and May hold the most tornadic activity for North Texas since 1880, with over 1,000 twisters confirmed ...
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 ...
The Dixie Alley region indicated by red shaded area.. Dixie Alley includes much of the area of the lower Mississippi Valley. [7] It stretches from eastern Texas and Arkansas across Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and mid to western Kentucky to upstate South Carolina and western North Carolina; the area reaches as far north as southeast Missouri. [8]
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 ...